: Someone else is using my IP address with an old A Record. What can i do? I found out that someone who used to have my current IP address, still has an old A record and google is using

@Becky754

Thanks everyone. What fixed it was the previous owner of the IP responded. He was really nice considering he had no idea who I was, but he fixed it by removing the old A-Record.

But if he never got back to me, what Andrew Lott said would be the next course of action.

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@Lee4591628

The simplest solution is to just return a 403 or 410 response for any traffic on the unwanted domain.

In .htaccess on Apache you could do something like:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [L,R=410]


In Nginx you could do something like:

server {
listen 80;
server_name domain.com domain.com; return 410;
}
server {
listen 443;
server_name domain.com domain.com; return 410;
}

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