Tag Archives: Network Tools

I had been reviewing the site stats for starterst of my clients (as all of us good web makers do) and I happened apon a rather unusual IP which was active during the time on the web-site: 14. 148. 209. 196 A reverse DNS check on network-tools. com revealed that the domain name behind ?t had been crawler918. com, that’s registered by Enroll. com to these: NameProtect, Inc. 918 Deming Way (that 918 is form of ironic, eh) Madison, Wisconsin, USA This question is as follows: whose bot would it be, and why seemed to be it crawling our client’s site for well over 2 hours in a single shot I thought NameProtect can be a private sign up, but nameprotect. com only covers trademark registrations and things of the nature. Ban that: http: //www. advogato. org/article/610. html I’m sure I vaguely recall it being the following but I generally welcome all spiders. Normally, I do too but ours (as the guy within the article said) did actually ignore the software. txt file and also poked around around things it possessed no business poking close to in. I at ease with that, and that may be what made us so … Continue reading →