NameProtect.com's NPBot bot hides in plain sight via IP 12.175.0.44

Rarely asks for, never heeds robots.txt

[Pfui]

Hit over at least a 20-day period before asking for robots.txt, then ignored it thereafter anyway.

UAs:
Covert: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461
Overt: NPBot/3 (NPBot; [nameprotect.com;...] [e-mail])

IP: 12.175.0.44
FYI: 12.175.0.32 - 12.175.0.47

So much for proper bot ID:

12.175.0.44 - - [03/Apr/2006:16:50:27 -0700] "GET /dir1/file1.html HTTP/1.1" 200 32560 "-"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461)"
12.175.0.44 - - [06/Apr/2006:15:03:16 -0700] "GET /dir2/file.html HTTP/1.1" 200 65144 "-"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461)"
12.175.0.44 - - [06/Apr/2006:21:13:57 -0700] "GET /dir2/file2.html HTTP/1.1" 200 34975 "-"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461)"
12.175.0.44 - - [06/Apr/2006:21:41:35 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 14182 "-"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461)"
12.175.0.44 - - [11/Apr/2006:12:51:58 -0700] "GET /dir1/file1.html HTTP/1.1" 200 65144 "-"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461)"
12.175.0.44 - - [13/Apr/2006:13:51:26 -0700] "GET /dir2/file3.html HTTP/1.1" 200 20545 "-"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461)"
12.175.0.44 - - [23/Apr/2006:20:11:46 -0700] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 8342 "-"
"NPBot/3 (NPBot; [nameprotect.com;...] [e-mail])"
12.175.0.44 - - [25/Apr/2006:03:46:16 -0700] "GET /dir1/file1.html HTTP/1.1" 200 32560 "-"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461)"
12.175.0.44 - - [25/Apr/2006:11:34:05 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 14182 "-"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461)"

More info about this "Online Brand Monitoring, Trademark Research, Identity Theft and Phishing Detection" bot/company here [nameprotect.com].

Ban-worthy by NPBot UA and IP block in my book.

[fiestagirl]

I've had that one on my list since at least 1/2005. I've no use for them and their tactics either.
Additional IPs:

12.148.196.128-255
12.148.209.192-255
69.8.156.192-255