Visits from 'mercury.hiddenservers.com'

Is this a Google bot?

[salson]

Hello.

For weeks, and each 5 minutes (more or less) I've been receiving visits from mercury.hiddenservers.com (64.21.129.66).

Is this a Google bot?

[chris_f]

Hi Salson,

What makes you think this is GoogleBot? GoogleBot comes from Google's servers. If it comes from anywhere else it is not GoogleBot.

The domain is not registered by Google.

Chris

[WarmGlow]

Is this a Google bot?

No. The remote host is not owned by Google. It could be an E-Mail address harvester. From a Google search, it looks like hiddenservers.com operates mailing list servers.

[Felina]

This seems a bit weird but httpme webhosts uses hiddenservers.com as their nameservers if you don't need your own personalized ones and the ip addy matches up exactly for their Mercury Server.

[wilderness]

64.21.129.66
Net Access Corporation

My site host was using the NAC machines as their server.
Recently my host-company purchased their own machines, which are some how routed and/or colocated through NAC.

The host started out small, provides excellent service and support and experiencing some growth.

Not sure how all that fits in with salson's inquiry. Except that NAC is simialr is services to Alabanza which could make it most anybody.