Michal Čihař - Archive for June 12, 2007

Troubles on being popular

phpMyAdmin is quite popular tool and it attracts people who want to earn money on it. For long time Navicat company used phpMyAdmin name to propagate their completely different product, but this seems to be gone now (probably with help from Google, but I haven't receive reply from them, but short after my complain, all their ads abusing phpMyAdmin were gone).

Today Marc spotted that somebody just stole our website added Google shopping cart and started to sell phpMyAdmin:

Main stolen page screenshot Buy page screenshot

Lets see how long will it take to get them down.

PS: There is intentionally no link in this post, you can see URL on screenshot, if you really want.

Update: It looks like hosting is very responsible on such problems, they just disabled this domain:

Hello,

Thank-you for your e-mail enquiry.

Please be advised that we have disabled site php-my-admin.awardspace.com.

AWARDSPACE.COM provides legitimate web hosting services and has a ZERO tolerance policy towards these violations.

We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you. If you still have any concerns in regards this matter feel free to contact us.

Best Regards, Harry

AWARDSPACE Dedicated Support Team support@awardspace.com

/"Your winning web hosting provider"/ http://www.awardspace.com