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If you don't use the site in Google, you should noindex it just to clear up any potential issues (especially if the domains link together in any way.)
Download the full site and open all the pages in Notepad++. Find & replace. Save, reupload.
I work in a large agency (we have 3 floors in our building) and I understand your concern. Often I have "pet projects" that do well and go live out to everyone. Then I have to worry about whether someone will "mess up" the way I had it working perfectly.
On the other hand, I used to work at home alone in my own agency. I found it quieter but less productive. I get more done with a bit of interaction and people asking me questions. I like having more people around and I've decided if my pet projects go live, I have to assume I'll lose a bit of control but hopefully add something excellent to the business.
You sound like you've done a fantastic job at attracting a mammoth business to love your work. I think if you can fit into their plans you would enjoy that. You may not control 100% everything but if they can see the value in what you do, hopefully they can move you into a role that controls a piece of a much larger company and you can contribute that way.
According to Ahrefs you have a 63% of referring pages contain the word "hair." Your top anchors are hair, loss, transplant, treatment, india
You had 3 links on .edu domains, all of which were spam comments on forums which have now been removed.
Even your latest links are not very clean:
Do you think those are natural backlinks passing a lot of value?
You had an SEO company working for you a few years ago, yes? They did some REALLY dodgy linking - and yes, you have link issues on the domains.
Unfortunately it looks like both domains have the same issue - you've bought links or had an SEO company do work in the past. Either way you need a disavow, site cleanup & new authority built to the site. The new site is really good looking. Good luck with it! Let me know if you need anything further.
Whenever you don't give us a specific domain to help on, you have to give as much info as possible. On the .com, after you disavowed did you build new authority or just assume the disavow would be enough? (It's not.) On the .com you said you lost traffic January 2013 which is Panda, not Penguin. So you were probably doing a whole lot of link cleanup to solve a problem you can't solve with link cleanup.
Given the other domain isn't ranking either, I'd guess you have some sort of Panda (content) issue. Duplicate content, repetitious & spammy titles, huge keyword stuffed meta keywords tags, thin or non-existent content, etc. Without seeing the site itself it's hard to say but this all reeks of Panda.
As to the questions:
No, it's not the domain name being similar. Without knowing the domains hard to say about 301.
Definitely not.
The only way I've ever seen this happen is if you're running your own rank tools. If you have Link Assistant's Rank Tracker or you run a custom tool you may get captcha. Also if you run SEO Tools through Excel (plugin) or if you run a lot of automated site: and cache: checking you will get it.
Moz wouldn't be causing this - though you may get it from the above or if anyone sharing your IP is doing the above, as Ryan said.
On the Entrepreneur article: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/235102
Search "Step" on the page and you should find it.
What you're talking about are called sitelinks. I found a really good article that explains them here:
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/235102
The most important bit (for your question) is:
That said, lower down the page are some great tips under "Getting Google Sitelinks: A Step-by-Step Guide"
Hope that helps!