Wednesday, June 03, 2009

SurveyBot - Compass Communications

The SurveyBot from Whois.sc hosted at Compass Communications, apparently located at the Westin Building in Seattle is not obeying our robots.txt files.

OrgName: Compass Communications, Inc.
OrgID: CPCM
Address: 2001 6th Avenue
Address: Suite 3205
City: Seattle
StateProv: WA
PostalCode: 98121
Country: US

NetRange: 216.145.0.0 - 216.145.31.255

Some others have been asking about this particular bot on forums:

Compass Communications

I do not particularly appreciate the fact that they scrape web content during their visits.