Written by:David Aldridge5/6/2011 10:24 AM
If you notice something like the following in your web logs :69.58.178.56 - - [06/May/2011:09:07:30 -0500] "GET /ltl-loads/ HTTP/1.1" 200 12885 "-" "BlackBerry9000/4.6.0.167 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/102 ips-agent" 69.58.178.56 - - [06/May/2011:09:08:21 -0500] "GET /ftl-loads/ HTTP/1.1" 200 12885 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3; ips-agent) Gecko/20090824 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/3.5.3" This is Verisigns IPS-agent bot. What this does is index your site for verisigns Internet Profile Service. This is something that they use to provide traffic data to prospective buyers of domains that are about to be expired... Verisign is in a unique position of running the .com and .net domain name servers and knows when domains will expire. They are using this information to help sell expiring domains with traffic to bulk domain buyers at registrars such as dynadot.
69.58.178.56 - - [06/May/2011:09:07:30 -0500] "GET /ltl-loads/ HTTP/1.1" 200 12885 "-" "BlackBerry9000/4.6.0.167 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/102 ips-agent" 69.58.178.56 - - [06/May/2011:09:08:21 -0500] "GET /ftl-loads/ HTTP/1.1" 200 12885 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3; ips-agent) Gecko/20090824 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/3.5.3"
2 comment(s) so far...
Re: Verisign IPS-Agent - What is this ?no it;s not, it is for the monthly report over net and com domains, not to sell them, it's for statistical data and in any case it's completely unuseful.
Re: Verisign IPS-Agent - What is this ?
no it;s not, it is for the monthly report over net and com domains, not to sell them, it's for statistical data and in any case it's completely unuseful.
Re: Verisign IPS-Agent - What is this ?Yes Jim, statistical data that they make available via their paid for Internet Profile Service...People buy that data to see what domains are worth buying when they expire.Verisign found another way to monetize the domains they run the TLDs for.
Yes Jim, statistical data that they make available via their paid for Internet Profile Service...People buy that data to see what domains are worth buying when they expire.Verisign found another way to monetize the domains they run the TLDs for.