BellPagesCA

[w3bmastine]

UA: BellPagesCA/1.0; +http://www.BellPages.ca
Protocol: HTTP/1.0
Robots.txt: No
Host: bell.ca

74.14.23.76

74.14.23.76 - - [06/Feb/2016:04:42:19 +0100] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 404 1036 "-" "BellPagesCA/1.0; +http://www.BellPages.ca" "www.example.com"
74.14.23.76 - - [06/Feb/2016:04:42:20 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 403 2960 "-" "BellPagesCA/1.0; +http://www.BellPages.ca" "www.example.com"

Hit on a fresh italian domain name (no generic term), third log-entry after setup. No backlinks. I wonder where they came from...

[keyplyr]

Looks like they came from Canada :)

Just kidding. Are you sure it used a DNS? Or possibly the TLD was recycled? It's a DSL range. Did the headers look correct?

Link in UA just points to a C Panel not a web site.

[lucy24]

Link in UA just points to a C Panel not a web site.

Amateur botrunner?

:: detour to look up ::

Thought it sounded familiar. That particular bell.ca range used to be Sympatico, which covers various parts of the Maritimes/NF region.

[keyplyr]

Still is Sympatico (sympatico.ca):
74.14.16.0 - 74.14.23.255
74.14.16.0/21

Bell DSL Canada is their customer