Ask HN: Why is ICANN sending my site so much traffic?

Posted by liambowen on Sunday July 03, 2022 @10:33PM
from the ask-hn dept.

For many months now, ICANN has been sending an absurd amount of traffic to a site I maintain from 192.0.32.224 and 192.0.47.224. From those two IP addresses, we have received 12,206,044 requests in June 2022 alone. In the last 6 months, the rate seems to remain relatively constant. It adds up to about 40GB/month.

Each entry is this: GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 4294 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (ICANN IT Operations +1-310-301-5800)

Why do they request this page so often? I wrote to their "[email protected]" address several days ago but haven't heard back. I know I could block them with a firewall but mostly I am curious as to why this happens.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is ICANN sending my site so much traffic? by bigiain on Sunday July 03, 2022 @11:15PM (#31973150)

  HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
  Location: pornhub.com

(You probably want to avoid sending that to Googlebot though...)

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Re:Ask HN: Why is ICANN sending my site so much traffic? by nobody9999 on Sunday July 03, 2022 @10:36PM (#31972945)

Perhaps you could ask them? 1-310-301-5800

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Re:Ask HN: Why is ICANN sending my site so much traffic? by liambowen on Sunday July 03, 2022 @10:54PM (#31973041)

I left a voicemail a while ago.

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