Thank you! --- Mike Damm <MikeD@irwinresearch.com> wrote:

http://www.google.com/bot.html for issues with the crawler. mailto:googlebot@google.com will get you a human bean to talk to. Normally when there is a problem with their robot, they are pretty responsive.

-Mike

--- Michael Damm, MIS Department, Irwin Research & Development V: 509.457.5080 x298 F: 509.577.0301 E: miked@irwinresearch.com

-----Original Message----- From: Andy Ellifson [mailto:andy@ellifson.com] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 8:45 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Google Crawler

We are a domain registrar and we host/park over 750,000 domain names.

Every now and then the Google Crawler decides to bury the machines that host our 'parked' domain pages. We use robots.txt but that doesn't help under these circumstances. I have tried sending a message to Google using their web site. They don't have a NOC entry on puck.nether.net either. Our only alternative right now is to block the crawler at the router level.

Does anbody have a contact at Google or is anyone at Google listening?

Thanks! Andy Ellifson