Anyone familiar with inktomisearch.com ?

[HONEYIMHOME]

Lately I have noticed a huge influx of Guest Users on my message board that are listed as j3189.inktomisearch.com for example. My research has done little good to find out if this is a referring page site address, or a proxy service of some kind. I don't think it's a Internet Provider because my board mostly only gets local traffic, and we have no such provider in our area.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[DjM]

Looks like it has something to do with Yahoo.

whois -h magic inktomisearch.com
inktomisearch.com is registered with ALLDOMAINS.COM INC. - redirecting to whois.alldomains.com

whois -h whois.alldomains.com inktomisearch.com
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Registrant:
Yahoo! Inc.
(DOM-300507)
701 First Avenue Sunnyvale
CA
94089 US

Domain Name: inktomisearch.com

Registrar Name: Alldomains.com
Registrar Whois: whois.alldomains.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.alldomains.com

Administrative Contact:
Domain Administrator
(NIC-1457976)
Yahoo! Inc.
701 First Avenue Sunnyvale
CA
94089 US
[email protected] +1.4083493300 Fax- +1.4083493301
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Domain Administrator
(NIC-1457976)
Yahoo! Inc.
701 First Avenue Sunnyvale
CA
94089 US
[email protected] +1.4083493300 Fax- +1.4083493301

Created on..............: 1998-Jul-21.
Expires on..............: 2005-Jul-20.
Record last updated on..: 2003-Dec-03 12:36:06.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.YAHOO.COM 66.218.71.63
NS5.YAHOO.COM 216.109.116.17
NS2.YAHOO.COM 66.163.169.170
NS3.YAHOO.COM 217.12.4.104
NS4.YAHOO.COM 63.250.206.138

Alldomains.com - The Leader in Corporate Domain Management
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For Global Domain Consolidation, Research & Intelligence,
and Enterprise DNS, go to: www.alldomains.com/corp/
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Cheers:

[HONEYIMHOME]

Does Yahoo offer a proxy service now? it would seem as though their requests are being redirected via Yahoo or something.

[DjM]

As Yahoo is the registrant of the domain:

Registrant:
Yahoo! Inc.
(DOM-300507)
701 First Avenue Sunnyvale
CA
94089 US

Domain Name: inktomisearch.com

It doesn't surprise me that requests would be routed thought a Yahoo server somewhere.

Cheers:

[valhallen]

from what i can find out about it inktomisearch is a sort of search engine - or web spider which has recently been purchased by yahoo. It spiders the web and then provides those results to other engines or portals - apparantly such firms as MSN and hotbot use information gathered by inktomisearch - you can do a pure web search using inktomisearch here as you can see their logo is at the bottom o page as well

you can visit the inktomi site here

I also found this index while looking for some more info for you - anyone care to guess as to what it is??

v_Ln

[valhallen]

i just wrote up a wee bit of info about robots.txt files and how you can use them to your advantage when dealing with search engines - take a look here

v_Ln