Strange website advertising my businesses

Ramrod · 14-11-2011, 16:26

I own http://www.bexleyheath-chiropractic.co.uk/ and http://www.pw-chiropractic.co.uk/. Those are my websites and my clinics.

I googled "bexleyheath chiropractic clinic" and noticed: http://www.bexleyheathchiropracticclinic.co.uk/

Now, I don't own that domain or site. You'll notice that it's a mish mash of details about both clinics, has lifted wording from them and also goes on about physiotherapists (which I don't employ at either clinic)
It gets stranger......the phone number on that site puts you through to my Paddock Wood clinic but I don't own that phone number!
A whois lookup tells me that the domain www.bexleyheathchiropracticclinic.co.uk/ is available for sale.
Can anyone here shed any light on whats happening? Is it simply that someone trying to sell the bexleyheathchiropracticclinic.co.uk domain name?
If thats the case, why is there a strange phone number redirected to my PW clinic? Help!

**Rob** · 14-11-2011, 16:34

Nominet suggests it is registered by Yell. Are you listing with them either phone directory or online? I know they are trying to promote their own website design services. Have you somehow commissioned them to do somehting for you?

**Graham M** · 14-11-2011, 16:36

It looks to me like a template website with text cleverly plucked from your site designed (possibly dynamically) to entice you to buy the address for some unfathomable figure

Ramrod · 14-11-2011, 16:53

We have a free advert with Yell because we use Yellow Pages, but thats all........and it still doesn't explain the strange phone number pointing at one of my clinics. But I do get the feeling that it's some sort of automated thing that has generated a site for sales purposes.....but the strange thing it that it doesn't have a 'buy me' button on it anywhere

**Kymmy** · 14-11-2011, 16:59

One puzzle for me is that on the Paddock Wood website your compatriot only uses the name Mandy Lock where on the website in question her details are "Dr M.J Lock BSc DC & Assocs" so could this be a website that she set up some time ago (or from a previous practice) that she's since pointed towards the new websites.. especially as both the tracking code within the source and the website registration details both point to the webiste being created nearly 2 years ago.

It'll probably stop being an issue sometime in the new year as it's due to expire in Dec 2011 so giving a months grace period it'll then cease to exist.

DaiNasty · 14-11-2011, 17:07

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Originally Posted by Ramrod

We have a free advert with Yell because we use Yellow Pages, but thats all........and it still doesn't explain the strange phone number pointing at one of my clinics. But I do get the feeling that it's some sort of automated thing that has generated a site for sales purposes.....but the strange thing it that it doesn't have a 'buy me' button on it anywhere

IIRC Yell do a number redirect thing with some of their deals which enables them to log 'click-throughs'. The source of the page shows a Yell link and tracking code.

Ramrod · 14-11-2011, 17:35

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Originally Posted by Kymmy

It'll probably stop being an issue sometime in the new year as it's due to expire in Dec 2011 so giving a months grace period it'll then cease to exist.

Thats something to be happy about I suppose!

Cheers

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The source of the page shows a Yell link and tracking code.

So yet again, Yellow pages are doing a bang up job of winding me up. They really are a bunch of muppets who couldn't organise a small soiree in a brewery.....

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Originally Posted by Kymmy

One puzzle for me is that on the Paddock Wood website your compatriot only uses the name Mandy Lock where on the website in question her details are "Dr M.J Lock BSc DC & Assocs" so could this be a website that she set up some time ago (or from a previous practice) that she's since pointed towards the new websites..

Nah, thats my wife (her maiden name that she graduated with) and she hasn't set up any other websites.

**Kymmy** · 14-11-2011, 17:38

But where would whoever have set up the other website got Dr M.J Lock BSc DC & Assocs from?? Her middle initial is not mentioned anywhere on your websites??

Dude111 · 15-11-2011, 08:11

Maybe its someone who knows his doctor personally or rang him for info who knows....

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Originally Posted by Graham M

It looks to me like a template website with text cleverly plucked from your site designed (possibly dynamically) to entice you to buy the address for some unfathomable figure

Yes thats what it seems like!

I like HIS sites,they look nice and in todays world where web design has GONE DOWN THE TUBES,it says alot about him and his business i think

Tim Deegan · 15-11-2011, 10:10

You will probably get someone contacting you, and trying to sell you the domain. However the law has changed, and if someone buys a domain in the name of your business, when there is no connection for them to that name, then if you want the domain, then you can have it.

I believe this was set up to stop the people who were just buying up all the domain names and then selling them for high prices to businesses. I've actually been contacted by people trying to sell me www.b******m.com and www.b*****m.co.uk. But I'm not interested, as although they give out half the company name, they don't say what we do. If I did really want them, then I think I would have to contact Nominet. But then I would only use them as an alias to www.b****m-****.co.uk, but I already have loads of aliases, so I don't really want any more.

Ramrod · 15-11-2011, 12:42

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Originally Posted by Kymmy

But where would whoever have set up the other website got Dr M.J Lock BSc DC & Assocs from?? Her middle initial is not mentioned anywhere on your websites??

I don't know where they got that from! It's not on Yell or in Yellow Pages!

DaiNasty · 15-11-2011, 13:32

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Originally Posted by Ramrod

I don't know where they got that from! It's not on Yell or in Yellow Pages!

No result in Google either. Most strange.

Could they have picked it up from a business card or letterhead?

Ramrod · 15-11-2011, 15:05

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Originally Posted by DaiNasty

No result in Google either. Most strange.

Could they have picked it up from a business card or letterhead?

It's possible, I suppose but that would require human input......which that site doesn't look like it's had...

Martyn · 17-11-2011, 01:32

i also get the same, many moons ago i brought xperthost.com now i always get emails with people trying to sell me xperthost(s).com - dont worry websites inactive - no promotion

But I'm unsure if this is a bad thing or not, yell are advertising your services? I would send them a letter for the reason that they made a website just to double check they intentions domains arent free.. are they making money from the website?

Maybe you agreed to share your content with them for free, in return for a free advert...