theplanet.com referral spam
Posted by: pureessence on: February 25, 2004
i realized today that most of referral spams i’m getting are sent by the theplanet.com hosting service. take a look
that is gross! here’s a more complete list. either theplanet is getting paid for doing this kind of nasty work or someone is seriously abusing their service. either way theplanet.com will be blocked by me. if you use textism referral script, go to your phpmyadmin and open your refer table and type in:
SELECT host, refer FROM `refer` WHERE host like '%theplanet.com%'
and see what kind of referrals you are getting from them. most of the referrals from them are porn sites. recently i started getting john kerry referral spam from them just like this guy. i plan to write to abuse@theplanet.com to find out what’s going on.
8 Responses to "theplanet.com referral spam"
February 25, 2004 at 10:16 pm
I haven’t had much referral spam lately (knock on wood) … but I think that I would have to close down my site if I were getting John Kerry referral spam! XP LOL
February 26, 2004 at 3:40 am
I don’t have referral spam a lot, I do have comment spam bots harassing my page though!
March 2, 2004 at 12:28 am
Here is the contact information from whois (I took just one of the URLs listed)
request is [STUDIO-8.NET]
Registrant:
Bostjan Kocan (PSIDN-50522)
Krnica 2b
Zgornje Gorje,
SI
Domain: STUDIO-8.NET
Status: ACTIVE
Administrative, Technical Contact:
Brian Estes (PSI-Handle BK14) webmaster@studio-8.net
+1.6154445025
Record last updated on 01-30-2004 11:18:09 GMT
Record expires on 01-22-2005 14:27:45 GMT
Record created on 01-22-2004 14:27:45 GMT
Database last updated 03-02-2004 13:48:32 GMT
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.CONEPUPPY.COM
NS2.CONEPUPPY.COM
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February 25, 2004 at 5:49 pm
The Planet provides semi and dedicated servers, so it’s most likely that it’s one of their clients abusing the feature.