202.8.40.201
Neutral Activity
There is no recent abuse activity, or the IP address is whitelisted.
Whitelisted Subnet
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202.8.40.201 is on our whitelist as Ahrefs Crawler via the subnet 202.8.40.0/22.
- ISP
- Ahrefs Crawler A
- Usage Type
- Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit
- ASN
- AS140577
- Hostname(s)
- sardine201.ahrefs.net
- Domain Name
- ahrefs.com
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States of America
- City
- Ashburn, Virginia
Abuse Reports
Total reports
35 from
12 distinct
reporters
First reported
Most recent report
Old reports
The most recent abuse report for this IP address is from
.
This IP is on our whitelist as Ahrefs Crawler.
| Reporter | IoA Timestamp (UTC) | Comment | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇧🇷 ICS Labs |
ICS Labs threat intelligence (ICS Feeds): Exploited Host. Last observed 2026-11-04 UTC.
|
Exploited Host | |
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "ahrefsbot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-122)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "ahrefsbot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-122)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇨🇦 Mediashaker |
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.40.201 (US/United States/sardine201.ahrefs.net)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "ahrefsbot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-122)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇫🇷 fastwarp |
DDoS / HTTP flood to hosting server from nginx access logs
|
DDoS Attack | |
| 🇨🇦 Mediashaker |
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.40.201 (US/United States/sardine201.ahrefs.net)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "ahrefsbot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-122)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇫🇷 Murazaki |
lemmy.balamb.fr 202.8.40.201 - - [21/Jan/2026:22:32:47 +0100] "-" 500 0 "-" "-" "-"
...
|
Hacking | |
| 🇩🇪 noxtec GmbH |
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.40.201 (US/United States/sardine201.ahrefs.net)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇬🇧 NotCool |
(CRAWLDELAY) Generic Bot Crawl-delay Violation 202.8.40.201 (US/United States/sardine201.ahrefs.net): 10 in the last 3600 secs
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇦🇺 MAGIC |
VM1 Bad user agents ignoring web crawling rules. Draing bandwidth
|
DDoS Attack Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇦🇺 MAGIC |
VM1 Bad user agents ignoring web crawling rules. Draing bandwidth
|
DDoS Attack Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇬🇧 Swiptly |
Aggressive SEO Bots
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|
Bad Web Bot |
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