Thomson & Thomson

Snoopbot / Copyrightbot / Trademarkbot

[nativenewyorker]

A new domain that just went live just had a visit from 206.229.38.184. Given that the site shouldn't have any traffic from human visitors yet, I checked the IP and it turns out to be Thomson & Thomson, which offers trademark and copyright services. The U/A was Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0). Apparently, this is another sneaky snoopbot to ban.

Arin identifies the whole block of 206.229.32.0 - 206.229.39.255 as THOMSON & THOMSON

Ted

[BlueSky]

Thanks...another one for the list.

A friend of mine tracked down the owner of a bot which was bothering our new site that isn't live yet. It turned out this guy sells the whois databases sliced and diced anyway people want. His info is very current up to the minute. He in turn sends out a non-UA bot to check when new sites become live.

I don't know who sells the whole database to him. Maybe NetSol? The operators of the bots we see almost immediately are buying the new listings.