Chinese bought my alternative domain and now they have very high search results !!!?

[Mike Anderson]

I was searching for "Katie Falkenberg".

http://www.katiefalkenbergphotography.com/

(Apparently in Japanese.)

[Superbass]

Once you look in the co.ck domain, you'll have to be sure to get your .xxx

[Daniel Moore]

You can create a free account over at http://www.domaintools.com/ and set up a monitor for any domain you like, when there are changes in it's status you get an email. I'm not sure you'll have a battle in acquiring it again but being there is a good start. When a domain expires, that's just the start. I can take up to 75 days to be on the block again. If you get any seemingly random notices regarding BIDDING for the name, it's your choice, if you think there's competition it's possibly helpful, but it's a vicious scam in my opinion. You can wind up bidding against yourself if no one else is in the pool.

[Mike Anderson]

Frank I'm doing a little research on the power of domain names in SEO. Do you have a rough estimate on when you released your .net name?

It's still there hanging in there in 4th place when I search for "Frank Petronio".

[JBelthoff]

Frank,

This is obviously a crappy spammy site that the link no longer works when I click on in from Google’s results.

While there is nothing you can do about the person operating the site you can and should contact google and explain to them the situation.

Google does not want sites like these coming up in their results anymore than you want them remotely associated with you.

http://www.google.com/contact/

[Ben Syverson]

It's frustrating, because while they do seem to favor previously registered domains that have lapsed (presumably so they can sell them back to you), there's nothing stopping someone from buying the names you opt out of and doing the same thing.

But how far are you willing to go to protect the brand? At this point we're talking about .com, .net, .org, .info, .me, .us, .co, .cc, and the list goes on.

[Frank Petronio]

It seems to be dissipating and if we don't click on it, the lower it goes ;-p

I have enough photos of drunken, naked women to haunt me forever, they get reblogged and stolen all the time so it's not even my best work showing up. So after a certain point I just gave up and stopped worrying about it and stopped trying to chase down all the sleaze bags.

On the plus side, if you tag photos well on Tumblr, they rise in the search rankings rather quickly, helping to bury the crap.

[BradS]

..... Some sort of scam that chinese hackers will use to extort american businesses to resell them their alternative domain names back to them at inflated prices? Does it mean everyone with a business that wants good search engine results will have to preemptively buy every possible alternative .biz, .edu, .de, .ca... Etc... Hundreds of alternative suffixes?

bingo!

[Joseph O'Neil]

Well rink, you have one advantage, IMO. When you do a google image fo your name, your photographs show up. when I do the same for mine, all i see are photographs of some Asian actor. So in a backward fashion, maybe the Chinese took me over too.