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2026

What happens when your server inherits a pirate site's IP address

One morning a customer opened their dashboard and looked at the Hosts report, which had shown the same single row since the day they installed us. There were two rows now. The first was their domain. The second was a name they had never seen in their life.

They did what anyone would do and opened it.

It was their site. Not similar to their site. Theirs. Same layout, same copy, same photographs, same links, down to the wording of the footer. A different domain name at the top of the browser and nothing else different at all.

They came to us to work out what they were looking at.