: During a domain auction for the .com version of my domain, it redirects to my site I own a web domain that is quite well known in certain circles. The .com of the same name is now being

@Jamie184

There is one thing you can do quickly with some options depending upon how nice you want to be.

If you want to be nice, create a webpage that briefly and in bold letters explains what is going on. Then use something like this in your .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*baddomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* www.mydomain.com/bugger-off.html [F,L]


If you do not feel like being nice you can just block them which is probably what I would do. The reason why I would chose the not so nice route is that I do not want search engines being confused though I am not sure how confused they would be.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*baddomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]


The first example redirects anyone with the referrer of the bad domain name to the page bugger-off.html. Of course you can change the full URL reference to a shorter one and of course the page does not have to be bugger off. I just like the name. (gotta have a sense of humor these days...)

The second example provides a 403 Forbidden error and no page.

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