Prevent listing websites on IP address

[hapytran]

Hi All,

Now I can see all my websites (on same ip) listed on [a commercial "domain information" site]. Is there any way to avoid this?

Thanks,
Eric.

[edited by: jdMorgan at 4:14 am (utc) on Dec. 29, 2009]
[edit reason] No URLs, please. See TOS and Charter. [/edit]

[jdMorgan]

That depends on how they got the information. If they got it from your domain registars, or from the site that you used to register your domains, then you only option may be "private registration" -- for an additional fee, of course.

On the other hand, if they're simply scanning/scraping the Web for the majority of their information, then you may want to consider blocking the IP address ranges of *their* server providers.

However, this takes a lot of research, and can result in a huge access-control list -- I've seen some that bloated a .htaccess file to 100kB and more, even when tightly-coded. Plus, there's always the danger of blocking your own 'linking partners' and search engine thumbnailing services (as used by Ask, for example), or other servers which you may deem to have a legitimate reason to fetch pages from your site.

Jim

[Jonesy]

A couple years back I could ping one of my virtual-hosted web sites by i.p. and each ping response would be "embellished" with a random domain name -- from the list of all the virtual domains on that host.

After several hundred pings one would pretty much have the full list of all the domains hosted on that server.

I pointed the 'anomaly' out to the good folks there and they soon had it squared away.

Jonesy