So, I’ve been blogging now for just over a year. And suddenly I start getting all kinds of spam comments. I set all my comment settings to moderated and started the process of deleting such comments one by one, without first logging a few details…ip address, acct name, e-mail and timestamp and a couple of the URLs spammed. What made this process easier…is that all the comments came from by only two IP Addresses…
74.52.151.66
NetRange: 74.52.0.0 – 74.55.255.255
CIDR: 74.52.0.0/14
Hostname: gator588.hostgator.com
OrgName: ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.
OrgID: TPCM
Address: 315 Capitol
Address: Suite 205
City: Houston
StateProv: TX
PostalCode: 77002
Country: US
208.109.181.218
NetRange: 208.109.0.0 – 208.109.255.255
CIDR: 208.109.0.0/16
Hostname: p3slhssl17.shr.phx3.secureserver.net
OrgName: GoDaddy.com, Inc.
OrgID: GODAD
Address: 14455 N Hayden Road
Address: Suite 226
City: Scottsdale
StateProv: AZ
PostalCode: 85260
Country: US
74.52.151.66 was particularly interested in spamming about drivers and laptops where 208.109.181.218 was all about fendi purses and dior handbags
74.52 used much better e-mail addresses that mimic what a real user whould have picked from multiple vendors [gmail, hotmail, yahoo] whereas 208.109 used *only* numerical addresses and *only* from Yahoo.
Not really sure if its worth switching blog providers over…but im already liking WordPress better anyway 😛