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amazonaws.com in my server logs
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Post Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:07 am Reply with quote
To maintain an accurate unique visitor count for display on our site desirousparty.com I have been tracking users by IP, and hostname. This helped me to eliminate crawlers from our stats, and give us a more realistic feeling of growth. Has anyone else had this hostname hit your site.
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aseely


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Location: Newark, DE
Post Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:58 pm Reply with quote
WHOIS shows this belongs to Amazon:


Registrant:
Amazon.com, Inc.

Administrative Contact:
Hostmaster, Amazon hostmaster@amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc.
Legal Dept, P.O. Box 81226
Seattle, Washington 98108
United States
2062664064 Fax -- 2062667010



Not sure why Amazon might be crawling sites though.
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Post Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 12:49 am Reply with quote
Amazon.com owns Alexa. Alexa provides data regarding the popularity of sites through data collected by its toolbar users. This is served by Amazon Web Services.
amazonaws.com in my server logs
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