I thought I would provide an update.
I would like to give a special thanks to Peter (Greek39) for all of his help in this situation. He found out where the site was being hosted and even took it upon himself to contact them and have a lengthy discussion regarding the theft. I hope that the host will remove the sites soon. I appreciate him taking the time and making an effort to help me when he didn’t have to.
On 8/29, I sent an email to the affiliate managers of Full Tilt, 888 Casino, Mansion Casino, Pacific Poker, Poker Stars, and Party Poker detailing the situation because these were the programs that he added to the left side of the sites. I haven’t received but one reply from any of the programs thus far, which is a bit of a disappointment. I would think that this would be something that they would get on immediately. I also filed a spam report with Google. I also sent an email to Iweb describing the situation. I also sent an email to the address listed on the whois records, but I doubt that will do any good.
The sites are still up at this point, but I’m hoping that will change soon.
I did receive an email from Poker Stars stating that they would take action on the affiliate. It’s nice to get a reply from a program to say that they at least care and don’t want to be promoted in such a way.
I also received a reply from Iweb stating that they have started an investigation into the issue. They say “The first steps of our actions involve contacting the web sites owner, verify if they are aware of the situation and seek their collaboration in resolving the issue.” I understand this is the way they do things, but it’s pretty cut and dry that these sites are direct copies of my site. Plus, he is still using my links for all of the casinos minus the few on the left side. Anyway, I hope to see them removed this week.