If I have someone's IP address/hostname (a visitor to a site), is there a way to find out the subscriber's name, not the host's name? Potential that a competitor is stealing my adwords...

1/23/2012 10:02:22 AM

this will end well

1/23/2012 10:26:57 AM

bribe a moderator if he/she uses TWW. Or use nslookup (see example below)

> 152.1.1.200
Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8

Name: dlt09df.unity.ncsu.edu
Address: 152.1.1.200
SUBSCRIBER NAME NOT HOST'S NAME: Paul Cousins

[Edited on January 23, 2012 at 11:02 AM. Reason : ]

1/23/2012 11:00:18 AM

if you think a crime is being committed, then you can work with the police to do it.

1/23/2012 11:39:37 AM

^Interesting...this all started because my analytics is showing an ip address that's hitting my website once/wk around 40x. Likely stealing bandwith or hotlinking.

Anyone have experience/recommendations on how to go about that route?

1/23/2012 12:33:18 PM

What are they accessing?

1/23/2012 12:42:25 PM

Maybe it was Google; are you Kenyan?

1/23/2012 12:48:44 PM

^^I don't really know...I occasionally have site hits of 40-50 in one day, usually once per week, it's using a good fraction (8-10%) of my bandwith. Server name was ian duggan in Washington state. Also screws up my bounce rate stats and other features in analytics.

1/23/2012 2:16:02 PM

Just block the IP address or redirect all of their requests to another page.

1/23/2012 3:54:07 PM

You really oughta investigate the abuse coming from these two IP addresses...
192.168.1.1
127.0.0.1

Blast those fuckers off your network.

1/23/2012 4:47:09 PM

...how does one steal adwords?

As in clicking your ads repeatedly for the purpose of wasting your ad spend? There's a pretty straightforward process for reporting click fraud, but for something so blatant there's a pretty solid chance that it's already been credited back to your account if you scrutinize your bills.

Furthermore, if you're using any of the free analytics programs like Google Analytics, they're actually designed to prevent webmasters from accessing data on individual users. You'd have to dig through your sever individual IP information and even then it'd be a pain in the ass to make use of that data.

Again, if you suspect you've been a victim of clickfraud, take it up with the ad network.

1/24/2012 1:06:29 AM

Quote :

"^Interesting...this all started because my analytics is showing an ip address that's hitting my website once/wk around 40x. Likely stealing bandwith or hotlinking."

If someone is hotlinking your images, the traffic will not show up in google analytics. google analytics gets data from the client's browser reading javascript in your website's html code. a client's browser downloading a hotlinked image will not run the javascript code, however the request will be logged by the web server (if logging is turned on).

It sounds like you don't even know what is going on and are making a fuss about nothing

if you just want that IP excluded from your analytics stats, you can do so: http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55481

1/24/2012 8:25:24 AM

someone other than himself has visited his site and he is confused

1/24/2012 1:37:46 PM

I used to trace hacking attacks while I was in undergrad, then email the provider's security contact with the IP and kind of attack for follow up.

1/25/2012 8:03:25 AM