Ask HN: Why is ICANN sending my site so much traffic?

[liambowen]

For many months now, ICANN has been sending an absurd amount of traffic to a site I maintain from 192.0.32.224 and 192.0.47.224. From those two IP addresses, we have received 12,206,044 requests in June 2022 alone. In the last 6 months, the rate seems to remain relatively constant. It adds up to about 40GB/month.

Each entry is this: GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 4294 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (ICANN IT Operations [phone])

Why do they request this page so often? I wrote to their "[e-mail]" address several days ago but haven't heard back. I know I could block them with a firewall but mostly I am curious as to why this happens.

[bigiain]

  HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
  Location: pornhub.com

(You probably want to avoid sending that to Googlebot though...)

[nobody9999]

Perhaps you could ask them? 1-310-301-5800

[liambowen]

I left a voicemail a while ago.