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Unusual Activity Detected

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Well if this is some kind of incentive to buy membership, i even don't know what to think. Didn't expect such low tricks. Come on, i've been working from this room for three years already.

@Michael

golan said:

Just got this warning...


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Unusual Activity Detected

Your access to the site has been temporarily disabled, please try again later. If you are using a VPN please turn it off and try again now. Some browsers such as Opera and Puffin, and some antivirus programs, act as a proxy and it is the same as using a VPN.

If you feel this was done in error please contact us and include your IP Address:
xxxxxxxx

Note: Paying members are allowed to access the site through a VPN. Join Today

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Well if this is some kind of incentive to buy membership, i even don't know what to think. Didn't expect such low tricks. Come on, i've been working from this room for three years already.

@Michael

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That has been in place for around three years now and has banned more than 50,000 bots with very little impact on legitimate users.

Before you simply weren’t allowed to use a VPN because then there’s no way for us to ban bad actors, as you can click a button and get a new IP. But now that we have memberships and we know who some users are, it is possible to let them use a VPN without the security risks. So that’s how we let people know. It’s only an incentive to get a membership if you really have to use a VPN for some reason, it’s not a low trick. Even NamePros blocks VPNs...

If you’re not using a VPN then you were probably banned for unusual activity. We have a number of automated checks in place which I won’t go into in detail. But again they have been in place for 3+ years and has nothing to do with memberships, it has to do with how many people feel entitled to abuse our server. It may have also been a temporary rate limit for searching too fast.

If you email me like it says to do on the ban page I’m happy to look into it and remove it.

It happened to me a while ago, but I contacted them and Michael fixed it. Probably whitelisted the IP address

Michael said:

That has been in place for around three years now and has banned more than 50,000 bots with very little impact on legitimate users.

Before you simply weren’t allowed to use a VPN because then there’s no way for us to ban bad actors, as you can click a button and get a new IP. But now that we have memberships and we know who some users are, it is possible to let them use a VPN without the security risks. So that’s how we let people know. It’s only an incentive to get a membership if you really have to use a VPN for some reason, it’s not a low trick. Even NamePros blocks VPNs...

If you’re not using a VPN then you were probably banned for unusual activity. We have a number of automated checks in place which I won’t go into in detail. But again they have been in place for 3+ years and has nothing to do with memberships, it has to do with how many people feel entitled to abuse our server. It may have also been a temporary rate limit for searching too fast.

If you email me like it says to do on the ban page I’m happy to look into it and remove it.

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Got your email, @Michael . Thank you for your response. Now it works again.

You say it might be for "unusual activity" but i can swear that time yesterday i opened the site for the first time after at least two days break.

Please don't get me wrong, i'm not trying to lodge a claim for a bug of your great service that i've been using for free. It's just, when you get banned on some service for some "unusual activity" that you never committed, and in the next sentence they suggest you to purchase their paid plan to avoid such (undeserved) ban, it gives you kinda bad taste.

Peace

golan said:

@Michael Since this thread starts to be NB feature suggestion thread, here is one from me -

Can you please add a negative filter? Like, i want to search for domains containing "chain" but lot of results will be about blockchain (didnt check actually, it's just for example, but for some of my searches in the past that was really a big problem) cannibalizing result positions, - so i would like to put Contain: chain, Not Contain: block. Thank you

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Sorry this took so long, but the negative keyword functionality is done. I haven't had a chance to test it really thoroughly so let me know if you notice any problems:

https://namebio.com/?s==ATMxYDN5AjM

You use an exclamation point before the negative keyword, so if you want sales containing "chain" but not containing "block" you would put the keyword as "chain!block" (without quotes).

When you use a negative keyword, the "Position" filter becomes just about the positive keyword and has nothing to do with the negative keyword. So "chain!block" At the End will look for sales with "chain" at the end but also not containing "block" anywhere. Of course that only applies to Anywhere, At the Start, or At the End since Exact/As a Prefix/As a Suffix wouldn't make sense for this situation.

It should also work fine while using brackets for strict match, like "[chain]!block" and At the End:

https://namebio.com/?s==MzMxYDN5AjM

In that example it would be looking for "chain" as the last parsed keyword in the domain, but also not containing block anywhere in the domain.

You can't use a negative keyword without a positive one though (i.e. "!block"), if you do that it will just strip out the ! and treat it as a positive keyword. I might add this in the future though if people would find it useful. You also can’t use multiple negative keywords like “chain!block!gold”.

It also works for the Sales Under $100 search form if you're a paying member.

Let me know if you have any questions or notice any problems. Thanks again for the suggestion!

I have been using the paid service for about 2 months and I find it very useful. For instance, it helps me identify keywords that are popular currently as well as for all times. It's an important tool in my toolbox.

@Michael Considering trying a yearly collector membership. If it turns out I want to bump it up to domainer level can collector be prorated to the next level?

xdomainer said:

@Michael Considering trying a yearly collector membership. If it turns out I want to bump it up to domainer level can collector be prorated to the next level?

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Yes it automatically prorates the price down to the minute. You just have to be careful when you do it to upgrade the existing membership not create a second membership.

Michael said:

Yes it automatically prorates the price down to the minute. You just have to be careful when you do it to upgrade the existing membership not create a second membership.

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Thanks for your response. Can you clarify two things for me so I can decide between collector or domainer level?

Is there a limit to the number of searches that can be done with a membership? I'm not talking about bots - just by hand? I can type quickly and have had issues with "unusual activity detected" before where I either searched too quickly or too much in day or per hour. I emailed you about it and I think there was a limit in place so I and ended up changing my habits to not run afoul again figuring I'd just get a membership when I was ready to continue doing alot of searches. Again, it's by hand.

Under "Export Your Search Results" explanation it says "You are only limited by the number of Bulk Searches you have available". I'm assuming this relates to the 10k "Bulk Search Results" benefit with domainer level. So if I search a term and the results are say - 2000 and I then download them then that counts against the 10k with domainer level - leaving 8k for the rest of the month?

Not sure when you would have time to answer my questions so I went ahead and got the collector since it makes no difference if I want to upgrade to domainer later.

Is the 150 search results still available for free members?

accuname said:

Thanks for your response. Can you clarify two things for me so I can decide between collector or domainer level?

Is there a limit to the number of searches that can be done with a membership? I'm not talking about bots - just by hand? I can type quickly and have had issues with "unusual activity detected" before where I either searched too quickly or too much in day or per hour. I emailed you about it and I think there was a limit in place so I and ended up changing my habits to not run afoul again figuring I'd just get a membership when I was ready to continue doing alot of searches. Again, it's by hand.

Under "Export Your Search Results" explanation it says "You are only limited by the number of Bulk Searches you have available". I'm assuming this relates to the 10k "Bulk Search Results" benefit with domainer level. So if I search a term and the results are say - 2000 and I then download them then that counts against the 10k with domainer level - leaving 8k for the rest of the month?

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Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. We don't rate limit paying members (e.g. searches per minute), although there is an unpublished limit for how many searches you can do in a day. Although it would be pretty much impossible to hit it manually unless you don't sleep and you keep smashing the pagination over and over without reading any of the results.

Yes, exporting search results from the homepage and doing bulk searches both share the same quota, since an export is basically a bulk search of all the domains in the results. So if you exported 2k results from the homepage, you'd have 8k left between exports and bulk searches for the remainder of the month on Domainer tier. Although if you switch to Domainer, you can send me a PM if you don't plan to use the API, and I can convert your API credits to bulk search credits (giving you 20k/mo).

PurpleMan said:

Is the 150 search results still available for free members?

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Yep, that's still in place.