Issue Regarding a Misleading Forum with a Similar URL

[dechi]

Forum URL: digimonforumrp.freeforums.net/

This is a bit of a complex issue, so I understand if there's no solution to it. 

There's a forum with a similar name (yet different domain) to the forum where I'm part of as a moderator. Their themes are similar, but with the caveat that the other forum has been dead for a while; it's been noted by some newcomers that they thought that and the forum I'm part of and that one were the same, and thus that they thought it was closed. This has the potential to be fairly detrimental to the forum I'm part of, mostly because some newcomers might think that the forum isn't operational when it is.

Is there any way to resolve this issue? I've tried contacting the owners of the dead forum in efforts to solve this issue, but it's been to no avail.

[Michael]

Hi,

Unfortunately there isn't really a solution to this problem, other than changing your URL.

[dechi]

Oh. That's sad.

Thank you for your reply.