Anyone been blocked from Alexa before?

[lorien1973]

Weird. I havent visited alexa in like 6 months, and I try info.alexa.com today and I get this message:

We're sorry but you do not have permission to access http://info.alexa.com/. Your IP address, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, has been blocked due to a possible violation of our Terms of Service.

Alexa's terms of service, available at pages.alexa.com/help/terms.html, grants a limited license to make personal use of the service and expressly prohibits commercial use, copying, and the creation of derivative works. If you need programmatic access to Alexa data please use the Alexa Web Information Service (available at www.amazon.com/webservices).

To unblock your IP Address, click the Submit button below. Please note this will work only once.

Anyone seen this before?

[elkiwi]

That's exactly what I wanted to know...I think it cos i run an automated ranking checker though...but I can't seem to get my self unblocked?

[lorien1973]

I figured it out. The traffic rankings are on www.alexa.com now, instead. Guess info.alexa.com is not public anymore.

[schmidte]

Originally Posted by lorien1973

I figured it out. The traffic rankings are on www.alexa.com now, instead. Guess info.alexa.com is not public anymore.

I was able to get to info.alexa.com, however at home where I have Mediacom cable internet, I can't get any Alexa pages if they start with www.alexa.com. If there is something like http://pages.alexa.com/???? I can view those pages. Don't know if Mediacom is considering Alexa spam and somehow filtering them out.
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[ozegreatdeals]

info.alexa.com works fine for me. And I can access the normal homepage as well. I did get a message like the one in question about 3 months ago but can't remember what I did at the time to get around it.

Drew.

[MiamiHost]

works for me to...

[TheNetCode]

Works for me as well. Not sure why you are having that issue. It is strange though.

Kevin

[duenna]

I had the same problem wit my cable connection.

Is it possible that Alexa have selected a range of IP addresses and banned them to make it harder for cumalative DOS attacks, by zombie computers? (London!)

[TheNetCode]

Originally Posted by duenna

I had the same problem wit my cable connection.

Is it possible that Alexa have selected a range of IP addresses and banned them to make it harder for cumalative DOS attacks, by zombie computers? (London!)

Anything is possible. I have seen where a particular IP was blocked, effectively taking down all the people in that network.