New tradmark, IP Protection bot, surveillance, etc

markmonitor.com

[mrjeff]

New tradmark, IP Protection bot, surveillance, etc

Right now this think is hitting my site with multiple ips at the same time.

From my logs
64.124.14.111.markmonitor.com
64.124.14.110.markmonitor.com
64.124.14.115.markmonitor.com
64.124.14.114.markmonitor.com

http:// markmonitor.com/

Has anyone had this hit their site, or know anything about this one? Does it adhere to robots.txt? I didn't see anything on their site mentioning it.

I don't like copyright, ip bot using my bandwith to make their clients money.

Thanks

[edited by: volatilegx at 2:40 pm (utc) on July 28, 2004]
[edit reason] unlinked url [/edit]

[balam]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, mrjeff...

> Has anyone had this hit their site, or know anything about this one? Does it adhere to robots.txt?

Can't say when I first saw these guys, but I do know that the latest it could have been was March of this year. I don't know any more about them than what you can garner from their website...

While I can't say specifically in this case, it has been my experience that robots for intellectual property protection companies don't obey robots.txt. I've guessed that the philosophy is "since we're looking for people breaking 'the rules,' we're allowed to step on a few toes, too."

I have their whole IP range banned via .htaccess.

I'm curious... Did you recently add some outbound links to big corporate sites on your site, mrjeff?

[wilderness]

I've had the entire backbone range denied for some time via their lack of response to reported violations of UAG's.

Don

edited by wilderness:

I've looked back in my records and my denial of access to Abovent was a result of their inaction to multiple requests to both Abovnet and About dot com to cease use of their link validation.
This was an ongoing process which lasted at least two years.
In a very unconventional way, I was "lucky" to get the About dot com link removed which pointed to my website and the validation stopped after that process.

So as it appears presently, I'm going to add back in Abovent short the ranges of About and markmonitor.

Many thanks.

[mrjeff]

Thanks for the welcome,
I don't have any links to any external sites, and all content on my site is original. I don't like robots that ignore robots.txt and use my bandwith for their buiseness model so I have them banned their entire ip range with this:
^64\.124\.14\.([0-9]¦[1-5][0-9]¦[6-9][0-9]¦1[0-2][0-9])$

Jeff

[jdMorgan]

More:

^64\.124\.14\.([1-9]?[0-9]¦1[01][0-9]¦12[0-7])$ [OR]
^65\.73\.246\. [OR]
^67\.136\.66\.1(2[89]¦3[0-5])$

Jim

[wilderness]

Jim,
What's these numbers?
[1-9]?[0-9]

Does the? imply any number?

Thanks in advance

[balam]

> [1-9]?[0-9]

That would match the numeric range of 0 to 99. The first digit - the "tens" - is optional (the ? in the regex), hence it only needs to match 1-9. (It's "cleaner" than saying [0-9]¦[1-9][0-9].)

[wilderness]

balam is their an advantage to the preceeding rather than using [0-9]¦[1-9][0-9]
other than making the string, four spaces smaller?

TIA

[wilderness]

I started this reply earlier and deleted it.
Not sure if it's proper in this revsied forum. :(

I went back through my records concerning Abovent more thoroughly and found four addtional ranges and/or IP besides markmon.

Two are my own preference and quite overbearing.
The other two INFOSPIDER and ADDR.com (see this old thread and take notes of msg#3:
[webmasterworld.com...]

Otherwise, I've opened my doors to Abovenet after more than two years.

[balam]

Beyond the 4-byte advantage (x the number of uses in ones' .htaccess) I think there may be an improvement in speed, but it's too far a granular timescale for me to say with certainty. (Just an (semi-)educated guess...)

> I've opened my doors to Abovenet after more than two years.

You, good sir, are getting soft in your old age. ;)

[mrjeff]

Jim,
thanks for the additional info.

^64\.124\.14\.([1-9]?[0-9]¦1[01][0-9]¦12[0-7])$ [OR]
^65\.73\.246\. [OR]
^67\.136\.66\.1(2[89]¦3[0-5])$

Jeff