Nameprotect
I’d consider banning this one:
User agent:
NP/0.1 (NP; http://www.nameprotect.com; npbot@nameprotect.com)
IP Adress:
12.175.0.43
24.177.134.6
The bot goes for robots.txt and then the root of the site, and on annelisabeth.com it also went for some of my organizing pages as well as a blog post.
And here’s the marketing blurb on their homepage:
NameProtect® is a Digital Asset Protection company providing eMarket Intelligence to leading corporations. We proactively provide protection of brand assets, recovery of diverted revenues and detection of online identity theft and fraud.
Hmm, I suppose I’ll let it roam on mine, if they actually DO something to all the spammers? But for most sites, a ban is not a bad idea.