12.148.209.196

Who is this rude character?

[Powdork]

12.148.209.196 - - [01/Jan/2003:18:54:19 -0500] "GET /pagename.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 8055 "-" "Mozilla/4.7"
He grabbed all my pages earlier today.

[rjohara]

Resolves to nameprotect.com, a trademark research company. Perhaps checking to see if you're using anyone's trademark without permission.

[Powdork]

thanks

[Yidaki]

Just my 2 cents about them:

They crawled quite a large part of my different specialized web directories. Because they were cheating (User-Agent "Mozilla/4.7") and since they grabbed URLs that are explicitly disallowed for crawling (robots.txt) i sent them a warning email.

I warned them about the violation of our TOS / Copyright and asked for their comment. This was 3 days ago - still waiting for a reply. Since they know something about copyrights it's strange that they ignrore our's. No requests for robots.txt at all ...

[weesnich]

As far as I know Nameprotect 'owns' the IP-Blocks
12.148.196.128-255 and
12.148.209.192-255

Please let us know if you get any answer from them that makes sense.

Weesnich

[weesnich]

There are some news: They are now identifying themself, at least for me.

crawler1.crawler918.com - - [removed] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 537 "-" "NPBot-1/2.0 (http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html)"

[fiestagirl]

They are identifying themselves only intermittently here..

NPBot-1/2.0
RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3
NPBot-1/2.0 (http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html)

all in the last week.

[JuniorHarris]

Same here, but blocked nonetheless.

They are a waste of bandwidth. Are they really checking pages or jacking them?

[amznVibe]

there is a bunch of info on this site about them, and how to block them, use the search feature to find it

they have no legit right to suck all your bandwidth, just get rid of them and watch for the next dozen bots that do the same thing

or just install a spider trap which will catch 70% of them automatically for you

[weesnich]

Thank you for your information. I interpret this as an attempt to get unbanned as a good guy - but at the same time they continue undisclosed spidering. I'll keep them in the [banned] section of my .htaccess.