What's up with the Chinese?

[estibot.com]

There's a lot of people in China, but practically the only abusers (apart from Fandie) of my service seem to come from China. Last week my site was bombarded by automatic bulk search requests from China, and now someone decided to start typo-squatting on my domain....in a way I guess it's slightly flattering

I just noticed this today:
Registrant:
Wan-Fu China, Ltd. (ESTOBOT-COM-DOM)

Record last updated on 28-Oct-2007.
Record expires on 27-Oct-2008.
Record created on 27-Oct-2007.

Domain servers in listed order:
Name Server: NS-1.PARKINGFIND.NET
Name Server: NS-2.PARKINGFIND.NET
Name Server: NS-3.PARKINGFIND.NET

EDIT: It seems that this China business is in Nassau, the Bahamas

 

[Morph]

Time to add Captcha?

And you know your doing something right when people start to abuse your mark.


Tom

 

[Jammer]

it's only a matter of time before someone buys estybot

 

[Domagon]

Block out the various IP ranges allocated to Chinese based ISPs (218, 219, etc; there are detailed IP block lists available out there - email server admins usually have such updated lists handy ... ask around) ... that alone will reduce much of that abuse.

Another thing to try is throttling appraisal requests - since estibot is basically a script, this is easy - limit the number of domain appraisals to like 100 per IP and 1000 per /24 range per day ... you'll of course have to code in exceptions like people coming in on AOL, MSN, etc that proxy and also legit users who complain when blocked by mistake ... overall, with a little effort, throttling by IP can work wonders - and is better in some ways to Captchas in that IP throttling is transparant to most users. Most whois lookup services throttle requests based in large part on IP.

Ron

 

[Pred]

why advertise?

he's a well known taster (and pain in ass)

he will maybe delete if gets no traffic. he prob onlky regged as someone searched for it or dropped after tasting themselves.

now, if he drops, some noob will reg

also dude, you aren't meant to post whois details in full, for obvious reasons

 

[estibot.com]

Thanks for the tips. I wouldn't want to block everyone in China though I get a lot of legit visitors from China so I obviously want to cater to them also. I've had donations from China, too.

It looks like the new captcha for every bulk search has solved the automated requests problem at least for the time being..

I edited the first post to truncate teh whois info
Josh

 

[Easydoms]

So true

Time to add Captcha?

And you know your doing something right when people start to abuse your mark.


Tom

So so so so true!!! Funny how the mind works when things like this happen.