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 David, We’re trying to understand how the duplicates stores are exactly mirroring our legitimate stores. They are not just a snapshot of our stores they actively update then we make any changes. Is this due to some malware in the liquid code?

I’m not really sure the technical details of how they are doing this. I don’t think there are any malware files added to your site, it all happens on their servers. I think they are pointing their own domain name at your website and when a request is made to thier-aliased-domain.com , your site conte…

This happened to my store. We aren’t sure how they did it. At first it appeared that they might’ve been serving up my website on their servers, which were on Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, AWS (Amazon web services), and Paknic (Pakistan). When I updated my website the copycat website updated in real tim…

Thanks David, I’m currently waiting for updates from Digital Ocean, the webhost and namecheap the domain registrar and Google where we’ve sent a spam/takedown request. I’ll keep you all updated.

Hi David, The Fix works great but the clone site is not redirecting back to our website it seemed to be in a loop accessing files from the shopify server, so I changed the location replace line to redirect to Google. window.location.replace(‘ https://www.google.com ’); I dont know if this is s a go…

Hi David I have tried this on in our header but is not working. Do you know if it is still current or there is an alternative version? I believe our site is being cloned using Iframes.

Hi there. Would you mind sharing the final script you used? I have tried following the chat, but getting confused by the AND OR options. And the original code David suggested doesn’t work. Looks like our site is being cloned using iframes. thanks.

Here is the script I used. Updated with Sploge1’s idea to redirect somewhere else. Here’s sort of a breakdown of what’s happening: First check if the domain name being used is our’s or some clone site We compare the domain being used to our domain without dots so that (hopefully) the clone sit…

Thanks so much for the reply, really appeciate it. Code works partially as redirecting their site but for some reason it is not recognising my shopfy name and is also redirecting my own site to google. This is what I have written

@Lisa_Honan Sorry I don’t have a shop to fully test this on. Here’s an updated version to try:

How can I remove sync from a cloned ecommerce store?

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Thank you so much David!

I had the same thing happening to me. Adding this actually worked.

Bless you.

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How can I remove sync from a cloned ecommerce store?

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