Alexa reveals Intranet domains

... and tries to spider all pages visited by a toolbar user

[Gorilla]

On the Alexa page for a domain there is a list of subdomains that have been visited by Alexa toolbar users. (One visit by one user seems to be enough for it to be listed.) See the Where do people go section on this page for an example: [alexa.com ]

What annoys me is that Alexa includes in the list domain names that don't resolve at Alexa - Intranet domains, in my case. This is probably not against their privacy policy as stated on their site.

I would be interested in hearing from anyone who have tried to get Alexa to remove information of this type from the publicly available Alexa page.

Alexa also provides the full URL of all pages visited by toolbar users to the Internet Archive. The consequence is that if you have pages only "protected" by not having any inbound publicly available links, the Internet Archive will try to spider the pages anyway.

[webdevsf]

I've seen this too. I've stopped using alexa toolbar for this reason. I don't want my "hidden" IP sites to show up in alexa.

I've seen web traffic sites such as webstats.foo.com on alexa in that section. Now to just guess the userid/pwd... ;)