SurveyBot

Identification of the Surveybot Internet robot. These include owner, description, HTTP user agent and whether this robot adheres to the robot exclusion standard.

Owner	Whois.sc. (Compass Communications INC.)
Country	USA
Description	WhoIs.sc is a domain name seller. On their site they offer name suggestions and reverse ip checking.  On the page for webmasters they acknowledge that Surveybot is more a probe rather than a robot, in the more traditional sense.
IP Addresses	64.246.160.0 - 64.246.191.255
HTTP User Agent	SurveyBot/2.3 (Whois Source)
Exclusion	The website says that this robot supports the robots.txt exclusion standard, which is described at http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html#robotstxt. To stop the robot from visiting the website, currently only the front , or root, page is visitied,: User-agent: SurveyBot Disallow: / However, whilst this would normaly be sufficient the website further qualifies this be requesting that the domain be submitted to them for removal.  This will cause all domains on that IP address to be removed also. Further, if there are two administrators, one who wishes to be included then priority will be given to this one.
Further Info.	www.whois.sc

NAT August 2005 (Revised)