Is eHarmoney Scraping YOUR Site?
Today as I was going through my daily duty of banning scraper IP’s that were systematically crawling pages or downloading my sitemap, I came across one IP that stood out.
A quick WHOIS revealed this:
OrgName: eHarmony.com
OrgID: EHARM
NetRange: 204.16.72.0 – 204.16.75.255
CIDR: 204.16.72.0/22
OriginAS: AS23112, AS36793
NetName: EHARMONY-COM
NetHandle: NET-204-16-72-0-1
Parent: NET-204-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: NS1.EHARMONY.COM
NameServer: NS2.EHARMONY.COM
Comment:
RegDate: 2005-10-21
Updated: 2008-07-08
Why would eHarmony be downloading sitemaps from other websites? Last time I looked eHarmoney did not have it’s own web-search, so why?
I don’t know the answer, so if you know please post a comment.
Perhaps they were harvesting lead information, like your commenters’ names and email addresses.. Just a thought..
Mustafa said:
That was one of my fears – how low is that? One would think that a big company like eHarmony would not resort to spamming.