A few days ago we discovered Drake Holdings LLC running a scraper bot on our classic archives. Seems these old archives must be in demand after Meta Development Foundation stole our old classic html files and managed to index every one in Google search. 

Update 04/15/16: RL Drake is still trying to scrape our domain, actually trying to scrape this website, After 2 Months CloudFlare is still serving this jerk 403 errors. No response to our cease operation request to his admin contact email.

Since then we have been on an IP blocking spree. While examining our server logs this IP range was coming up frequent (204.79.180.0/24) after a quick whois lookup it came back to a company identified as Drake Holdings LLC. We quickly blocked Drake's IP range.

But this is a really stupid bot. For 3 days now it's been served up a 403 Permission Denied error, but is still coming back and trying again about every 5 minutes. I would think it would have taken the hint by now.

We have emailed the admin contact with a cease operation request. No reply as of this posting.

NetRange: 204.79.180.0 - 204.79.180.255
CIDR: 204.79.180.0/24
NetName: DRAKE-HOLDINGS
NetHandle: NET-204-79-180-0-1
Parent: NET204 (NET-204-0-0-0-0)
NetType: Direct Assignment
OriginAS:
Organization: Drake Holdings LLC (MC-938)
RegDate: 1994-12-14
Updated: 2015-10-28

OrgName: Drake Holdings LLC
OrgId: MC-938
Address: 2215-B Renaissance Drive
City: Las Vegas
StateProv: NV
PostalCode: 89119
Country: US
RegDate: 2014-12-15
Updated: 2015-05-19

OrgAbuseHandle: ADMIN5512-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Administrator
OrgAbusePhone: +1-702-605-0237
OrgAbuseEmail: [Image Can Not Be Found]

OrgTechHandle: ADMIN5512-ARIN
OrgTechName: Administrator
OrgTechPhone: +1-702-605-0237
OrgTechEmail: [Image Can Not Be Found]