Hello, I have an ecommerce shopify store. I created it one year ago. I found my store in another domain. Someone bought a domain last week and 100% cloned my store. He hosted the store in a Virtual private server. He also synced my store with his store. When I add product to my original store then …

Hi, We are experiencing the same problem right now. We submitted DMCA with both shopify and their domain registrar as soon as we found out, but they have all come back saying they can’t take them down. I’ve also tried to look for their hosting provider, but it’s hiding behind Cloudflare. We’ve fil…

This recently happened to a shop I work on. Here’s what I added to theme.liquid to prevent the theme from working on other domains: Add this to your theme.liquid inside the tag: I used .replaceAll to remove the . character because the cloned shopify domain was replacing all occurrences of our d…

Hi David, We tried to use your code as the same thing is happening to us, would you mind telling me if the below is correct?

Yes, that looks correct. You might need to test with and without the ‘www’ in your domain. Add the code to your theme, then visit the offending clone domain and you should see the page continuously reloading.

David, Thank you for your post. You’re super helpful. I put this on my Theme, and it did work, as it blocked the duplicate site from loading. but it also caused my site to go in a loop and didn’t load until I removed the script.

Thanks for this, David. Worked perfectly. Someone cloned our entire store - including the checkout. I’m not sure if the checkout was actually functional or not, and I wasn’t going to try and see if it was. Neither the domains registrar (where the scammer’s domain was purchased from), Google, or Sh…

@David_Sullivan This is genius! Excellent work! Thank you for putting that together.

I used .replaceAll to remove the . character because the cloned shopify domain was replacing all occurrences of our domain with their domain before the script was being run in the browser. This causes the site to be stuck in a reloading loop if not using the correct domain. @David_Sullivan This…

I think you’re just missing an opening bracket in the first if statement. if (window.location.hostname.replaceAll('.','') !== "pnwjourneycom" || "pnwlifecom") should be: if (window.location.hostname.replaceAll('.','') !== "pnwjourneycom" || "pnwlifecom") {

How can I remove sync from a cloned ecommerce store?

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actually instead of wwwdomaincom I did domaincom instead it seems to work. i’ll do some more testing. Overall, excellent suggestion. thank you

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How can I remove sync from a cloned ecommerce store?

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