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: Domain owner uses my IP without permission as I discovered recently a lot of domains of a certain organisation all have their A-Record set to the IP of a server that I own. The server currently

@Berumen354

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as I discovered recently a lot of domains of a certain organisation all have their A-Record set to the IP of a server that I own. The server currently does only host security auditing tools and does not contain a website. However I might want to host something with this IP in the future and do not want to be associated with the domain-owner at all. I already looked up the whois information and tried to contact the organization. I did not receive any reply. Is there anything I can do to get the domain owner to no longer use my IP?

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I ended up deleting and re-creating the virtual-server which gave me a new IP. Not the best soltuion since someone else will now "pull this IP out of the hat" when setting up his/her v-server.

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@Deb1703797

Not much you can do, as the DNS is not administered by you. Any record can point to any IP -- so I guess you're just out of luck :(

You can, of course, try to contact the domain owner and ask if they could change the record. You can spend as much time as you want on this, but if it's worth it... I'd say no.

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@Smith883

In life you can take on fights that are not worth the time no matter if you are right or wrong, change IPs and move on, use time in a positive manner forget the fights that that are not worth wasting your time on.

If you are gonna spend money on legal letters, be prepared to pay more money and spend time than you will ever hope to get back, roll with the punches be positive and move forward.

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@Speyer207

There really isn't much that you can do effectively, besides what has already been mentioned. A legal letter could work, and so could redirecting the IP so something that they wouldn't want to be associated with.

You could also try looking at any traffic coming from their domain to see what they are trying to access, if anything.

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