I received a big traffic spike a couple of days ago, and my logs say 94 unique visits came directly from a network named Kintiskton LLC. Obviously it is some kind of spider. Upon further research, it appears to be a company looking for trademark infringement. Unfortunately their excessive crawling is a nuisance for those of us who use our traffic data. Another blogger posted this suggestion - block the IP addresses of the Kintiskton spider using your .htaccess file like so:
Deny from 65.208.151.112/29
Sounds like a plan. I’ll see if it works to keep these pests away.
#1 by Mr. Puggle® - August 27th, 2009 at 07:40
Thanks for the info! I just saw that in my analytics.