I would like to reject all old browsers that come to our site from Google advertising or otherwise. Looking at the networks that these old browser visitors come from, it is pretty clear that 99% of them are bots, software or competitors.
I wish Google would do something about this like disallowing ads for old, insecure browsers like IE6.
Trends from the trenches of Internet traffic. Hackers, spammers and Internet abuse. IP address database. DNS sightings. Views and opinions expressed are my own. ~ Teri Radichel @teriradichel
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Slicehost - Bad Traffic
We seem to be getting a lot of bad traffic from the slicehost IP range.
OrgName: Slicehost LLC
OrgID: SLICE
Address: 4579 Laclede Avenue #258
City: St. Louis
StateProv: MO
PostalCode: 63108
Country: US
NetRange: 67.207.128.0 - 67.207.159.255
OrgName: Slicehost LLC
OrgID: SLICE
Address: 4579 Laclede Avenue #258
City: St. Louis
StateProv: MO
PostalCode: 63108
Country: US
NetRange: 67.207.128.0 - 67.207.159.255
ThePlanet.com - bad traffic
Getting a lot of bad traffic from this network:
OrgName: ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.
OrgID: TPCM
Address: 315 Capitol
Address: Suite 205
City: Houston
StateProv: TX
PostalCode: 77002
Country: US
ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.theplanet.com:4321
NetRange: 174.132.0.0 - 174.133.255.255
OrgName: ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.
OrgID: TPCM
Address: 315 Capitol
Address: Suite 205
City: Houston
StateProv: TX
PostalCode: 77002
Country: US
ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.theplanet.com:4321
NetRange: 174.132.0.0 - 174.133.255.255
Amazon cloud traffic
After a bunch of odd traffic from the Amazon "elastic cloud" networks searching for pages that don't exist on our sites, one site's search engine rankings has dropped.
Coincidence, I don't know.
Coincidence, I don't know.
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Google Imposter
A Google Imposter hit our sites today from this IP:64.69.46.216
On this network:
OrgName: CoreExpress
OrgID: COEX
Address: 600 W. 7th Street
Address: Suite 360
City: Los Angeles
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 90017
Country: US
NetRange: 64.69.32.0 - 64.69.47.255
On this network:
OrgName: CoreExpress
OrgID: COEX
Address: 600 W. 7th Street
Address: Suite 360
City: Los Angeles
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 90017
Country: US
NetRange: 64.69.32.0 - 64.69.47.255
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
AOL Proxy Cache
I noticed this IP and related IPs were hitting our sites a ton:
207.200.116.13
A reverse look up of the domain shows this IP is:
cache-ntc-aa09.proxy.aol.com
I'm personally not a fan of other networks caching and hosting our content.
I think mail servers cache images to reduce hits so those images can't be used to measure email campaigns, if true.
207.200.116.13
A reverse look up of the domain shows this IP is:
cache-ntc-aa09.proxy.aol.com
I'm personally not a fan of other networks caching and hosting our content.
I think mail servers cache images to reduce hits so those images can't be used to measure email campaigns, if true.
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