What to do if a fake site is higher than the original in search engines?

Question

Domain Name System

Good afternoon.
The situation is as follows:
My client had a website of some private school, a domain in the mysite.ru style (at the same time, the old one, with TIC 120, PR3)
But one day he forgot to pay for the domain, which was why it was intercepted by cybersquatters, NS was redirected to a new hosting, website sparsen. Now they sell links from it, there are a lot of ads on it.
The problem was aggravated by the fact that the client created a new site like my-site.ru (that is, it differs by the presence of a hyphen) and made a complete copy of the past on it. Yandex considered it a double and threw it down a lot (even though it didn’t get banned, and thanks).
Now the question is:
1) What to do with the current lost site mysite.ru?
2) Is it better to develop a completely new domain, different from the old one, or is it already pushing through my-site.ru?
Thanks for the help!
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Answer 1

Sad situation, here you can only write to Yandex.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, everything went right here. Your my-site.ru appeared later with exactly the same content. Obviously, according to Yandex, he is the clone. You didn't pay for the domain, the squatters legally bought it, there's nothing to complain about either. It’s another matter to try to prove the authorship of the content, but not with Yandex, but through the courts, then the new owners of the old domain will be required to delete it (here I could be wrong, but logically, that’s how it is).
The easy way, of course, is to make a completely new domain with completely new content.

Answer 3

Theoretically, if the domain name corresponded to the name of a private school, you can somehow claim rights, there were precedents with all sorts of trademarks. But this is a legal jungle with an unpredictable result.
It’s probably useless to write to Yandex, except that they can take a closer look at a fake site and apply a filter if everything is really bad there. In general, Yandex does not deal with copyright issues (and should not), it is a search engine.

Answer 4

I think it will be enough to write to the squatter and he will remove the content.
He knows that he has a stigma in the cannon and is unlikely to butt.