NameProtect

Peter Rukavina

This robot came calling here yesterday. Apparently NameProtect is a “Digital Brand Asset Management company.” Hmmm.

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Submitted by Lou Quillio on

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The NPBot works for NameProtect.com, which sells an intellectual property protection service. The bot is looking for copyright infringement. I do not provide bandwidth for this purpose any more than I maintain a telephone line as an inbound marketing channel.
http://www.nameprotect.com/bot…

I made the call about a week ago. So far the NPBot is respecting this, at least in cases where it self-identifies:

User-agent: NPBot
Disallow: /
(http://www.quillio.com/robots….

It’s going to take something a little stronger to block the DTS Agent, spambot minion of a truly nefarious email address harvester:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/…
http://www.zstools.com/bee.htm

Time for a UNIX box: this is a job for .htaccess

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