Name Intelligence, Inc. won’t stop abuse

#1 2008-06-03 by Awesome AnDrEw

But Name Intelligence has a few other netblocks as well, right Johann? Aside from 66.249.0.0 through 66.249.31.255 they also own 209.59.192.0 to 209.59.223.255 (Spry Hosting), and 64.246.165.128 to 64.246.165.255, which is their DNS servers. I've had them, their actual User-Agent (SurveyBot/2.3 (Whois Source)), and a few of the others they've used blocked for quite some time, but when I access my own website through their services I do not get the above image, but a snapshot of the main page from over a year ago. I find their business practices to be quite annoying, and have actually contacted them on a prior ocassion requesting they stop. Did you also know that each time you access the WHOIS information provided on the website it requests the website through its own service while forwarding the client's IP address in the X-FORWARDED-FOR header?

#2 2009-04-07 by RT

Dear Mr. Burkard—

I don't know if you can help me, but I have an anonymous blog hosted by TypePad. Searching for an old post of mine, I came across this link on Google

http://whois.domaintools.com/denveater.com

Only to find all my private contact info published! I'm in shock and naturally I don't want to register with their site, which I fear will make it worse. What can I do about this? I'm not especially tech savvy and don't know how to verify that I can block their network.

I hope you can help; thanks so much for calling them out.

#3 2009-04-07 by Johann

RT,

this information is taken from WHOIS. It's not only visible on DomainTools' website, the WHOIS is just as open.

I think now that Name Intelligence has the data, there is little you can do about it.

For new domain registrations, I'd always get private registrations.

Blocking Name Intelligence from your server will prevent them from collecting for example the "Front Page Information," but not a whole lot more.