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jonasjacek

8:51 pm on Oct 23, 2016 (gmt 0)

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UA: BoogleBot2 (https://www.boogle.com; test@boogle.com)
Protocol: HTTP/1.1
Robots.txt: Yes
Host: AWS
NetRange: 54.144.0.0 - 54.159.255.255
CIDR: 54.144.0.0/12

boogle.com is taken (private whois), but is not connected.

keyplyr

9:55 am on Oct 25, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Has been showing up at my properties as well, same UA but from a different node in the AWS cloud:

52.192.0.0 - 52.223.255.255
52.192.0.0/11

Asking only for robots.txt sever times per day.

keyplyr

7:54 pm on Oct 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Also coming from...
Host: mvimages.com
140.174.64.0 - 140.174.127.255
140.174.64.0/18
Parent: NTT America
140.174.0.0 - 140.174.255.255
140.174.0.0/16

Now requesting web pages

lucy24

7:07 pm on Nov 16, 2016 (gmt 0)

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I posted about boogle in the testitest thread [webmasterworld.com], because I think they're connected in some nebulous way.

Pro tip: There's no point to including an URL in your UA string if the URL just redirects to google. The only result is to make people suspicious of you.

keyplyr

10:48 am on Nov 17, 2016 (gmt 0)

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...the URL just redirects to google
Really? Just a dead-end when I've tried.

lucy24

7:45 pm on Nov 17, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Just a dead-end when I've tried.

It would not surprise me if they changed from day to day. I just remember checking the first time I saw boogle in logs.

keyplyr

8:20 pm on Nov 17, 2016 (gmt 0)

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AFAIK it has always been https://www.boogle.com. As jonasjacek said, there's no there there.

SomeRandom

5:05 pm on Jan 6, 2017 (gmt 0)

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Hi! I own boogle.com, and BoogleBot and boogle.com are not related except they both contain the string "boogle". Boogle.com is a simple and old website that does nothing all that useful, to be honest :).

keyplyr

8:53 pm on Jan 6, 2017 (gmt 0)

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Hi SomeRandom and welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

So you 're saying the Booglebot runners are using your domain in their UA string without your consent?

Do you know who they are & have you taken any action to stop them?

SomeRandom

7:17 pm on Jan 7, 2017 (gmt 0)

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Hello keyplyr, I'm not sure who they are and haven't looked into it. Seems harmless enough, not something I'm worried about or planning to pursue (nor do I know how). I ended up here as someone contacted boogle.com about the topic after reading this thread, so wanted to help clarify matters.

lucy24

8:08 pm on Jan 7, 2017 (gmt 0)

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someone contacted boogle.com about the topic

So test@boogle.com is a valid address? Or did they try something generic like webmaster@ or postmaster@ ?

:: detour to saved email ::

I find an email sent to another of their putative addresses, info@, which got a mailer-daemon error. In fact, on closer examination, it wasn't a "no such person" or "mailbox full" error, which can take hours or days; it was an immediate "no such host" error. That was last October.

You'd think there would be some way to make a third party stop using your own, lawfully registered property in its UA string. But then you have to figure out what law they'd be violating. It's not like spoofing a sender (sending spam purporting to come from fakename@boogle.com) which is plainly not allowed. Come to think of it, is even that formally illegal? Or is it just A Civil Matter, as your local police say when they don't feel like doing anything? I remember about 20 years back when aol.com played nonstop whack-a-mole with people faking their name in spam email. Hard to understand why they bothered, when at the same time AOL accounts were yours for the asking.

:: further detour to boogle dot com feedback page ::
To : Feedback @ Boogle

Uhm, I don't think you're really supposed to do that. Either give the actual name of the actual address that the email will be sent to (.com, .net, .co.uk, whatever it may be), or leave it out entirely.

dstiles

8:14 pm on Jan 7, 2017 (gmt 0)

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> don't think you're really supposed to do that

You can sometimes get away with it IF the mail server is "attached" to the web server AND it's set up that way.

I can see that being a useful way of avoiding spam pickups.

keyplyr

9:46 pm on Jan 7, 2017 (gmt 0)

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you're really supposed to do that
That tough scolding has always worked well on the internet :)

lucy24

3:11 am on Jan 8, 2017 (gmt 0)

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It's clearer if you are looking at the Contact page. (I had a look because I wondered about how someone had contacted boogle dot com if the assorted addresses don't really exist.) It isn't an email form with a to: line, it's a line of non-functional text.

keyplyr

6:25 am on Jan 8, 2017 (gmt 0)

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It isn't an email form
Not that it mattets that much, but I see an email form:

To: Feedback @ Boogle
Name:
Your Email:
Subject:
Message :

lucy24

7:17 pm on Jan 8, 2017 (gmt 0)

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Huh. In my browser, that first line isn't an active part of the form. It's just onscreen text, meaning there's no inherent connection between what the words say, and where the email ends up being sent.

SomeRandom

4:44 pm on Jan 9, 2017 (gmt 0)

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The domain isn't set up to handle email and the form submits to a personal gmail address. The string "Feedback @ Boogle" is random text I chose long ago without much thought, but it's changed now to help avoid confusion. One day an About Us page will be added that will include a reference to the unaffiliated booglebot.