Expired Domain Sleuth

Nuther gnew won?

[pendanticist]

68.144.44.231 - - [01/Nov/2003:15:09:05 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 20624 "-" "Expired Domain Sleuth"

11/01/03 17:25:49 IP block 68.144.44.231
Trying 68.144.44.231 at ARIN
Trying 68.144.44 at ARIN

OrgName: Shaw Communications Inc.
OrgID: SHAWC
Address: Suite 800
Address: 630 - 3rd Ave. SW
City: Calgary
StateProv: AB
PostalCode: T2P-4L4
Country: CA

NetRange: 68.144.0.0 - 68.147.255.255
CIDR: 68.144.0.0/14
NetName: SHAW-COMM
NetHandle: NET-68-144-0-0-1
Parent: NET-68-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS2SO.CG.SHAWCABLE.NET
NameServer: NS1SO.CG.SHAWCABLE.NET
Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
RegDate: 2002-06-03
Updated: 2003-06-20

Pendanticist.

[BlueSky]

Hey, at least they're upfront on what they're doing.

[pendanticist]

Yeah, it does appear so. Then again, since I couldn't find references on this, how can we be so sure it's up front about anything other than 'Expired Domain Sleuth'?

68.144.44.231 - - [01/Nov/2003:17:00:51 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 20624 "-" "Expired Domain Sleuth"

It was so sure of what it found the first time around that it had to check again?

Until I know a little more about it, perhaps a precautionary ban by IP Number is in order.

Pendanticist.

[bull]

any other legit user-agent out there apart from

Xenu Link Sleuth

(dead link checker) that contains "sleuth"?

[BlueSky]

That's true. If it's an expired domain bot, it shouldn't need to pull anymore than one page and may visit quite frequently.

bull, I haven't seen any others with Sleuth except Xenu.