COMPLAINT FILED WITH “CLOUDFLARE”
by Sharon Rondeau
(Aug. 15, 2019) — As The Post & Email reported late Wednesday night and Thursday morning, a website dubbing itself “hothealthblog.com” is reproducing, without attribution, backlinks or author bylines, what appears to be all of our published material.
This writer discovered the transgression on Wednesday while conducting research for an unrelated project.
After investigating the website’s registration information, we found that its domain name is registered with GoDaddy. Upon calling GoDaddy early Thursday morning, a representative confirmed that the company does, in fact, hold the domain registration, but that it is unable to address claims of copyright infringement. She therefore recommended that we complete an abuse form with GoDaddy but also contact Cloudflare, indicated to be the site’s “name server.”
We called Cloudflare, whose phone messaging system said it does not accept “Abuse” reports by voice and referred us to an online form.
The report was difficult to complete and submit given that after multiple attempts, we found it accepted only one “infringing” URL even though multiple URLs appear to be within the scope of an abuse complaint.
At long last, our form was accepted and we received the following acknowledgment:
My e-mail account, which worked this morning, now does not accept logins.
For corporate contacts, see Cloudflare, Inc’s registration document obtained from the California Secretary of State site at
https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/Document/RetrievePDF?Id=03274841-24610066