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What is this site?
Abongo.com is a free tool for investigating Internet domains,
websites, IP addresses and other things.
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Why should I care?
If you need to ask, perhaps you shouldn't.
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Is this a hacker site?
No, not at all. If anything, this site will help you secure yourself
from hackers by showing you mistakes that may have been made in your
setup. I know I've found plenty of mistakes in my own various setups
using Abongo.
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Who wrote this?
I did. My name is Reg Natarajan.
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Why did you build this? What's in it for you?
Very little, actually. The ads don't generate any money to speak of.
Really, I built it because I wanted it. There was no tool out there
that did the things I wanted, so I made one.
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Did anyone help?
No. I'm not looking for help, either. I like
the fact that Abongo is a one man show. I get plenty of camaraderie at
eSecureData.com
where I work. I don't need or want it here.
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Is this FAQ all the help there is?
Yes, at least so far.
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But I don't understand something and it's not covered here. Can I email you for help?
Sorry, no. Try posting your question on an Internet forum. I think
well of eSecureData Forums
but there are plenty out there.
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Will you ever have a decent help system?
I hope so. Abongo is not a profit maker for me, so it gets what time
I can spare. My focus right now is on code, not documentation.
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What does Abongo mean?
It is an ancient Swahili word meaning "investigate".
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You made that up, didn't you?
Yes. I have no idea what it means. I just thought Abongo sounded cool.
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I found a bug. Where can I report it?
Please email me at reg@natarajan.com. I appreciate valid bug reports very much.
Please try to keep it short and to the point, as I get a lot of email.
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Shouldn't you have an @abongo.com email address?
Probably. I might get to it, someday. Or not. I already get too much email.
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What are the locations of all your spiders?
Dublin, Hamburg, Moscow, Tokyo, Sydney, Chicago, Sao Paulo (new!) and (home base) Vancouver.
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If Abongo is a one man show, how do you have spiders all around the world?
Cloud servers are cheap. The net is a beautiful thing.
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What use are all those spiders?
Many organizations change how they present content based on the user's geolocation.
To see an example of this in action, do an
Abongo DNS
investigation of BMW.com. Then cycle through the various spiders using the city links in the search header
and you'll see how BMW changes how it presents content based on where the query comes from.
To the best of my knowledge, Abongo is the only tool in the world that
can show this sort of thing.
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When I do an Abongo on abongo.com, it says your Vancouver spider is in Calgary and your Chicago spider is in Texas.
Those are the locations of the head offices of the backbone providers of those two spiders.
These organizations should be updating their information with ARIN regarding where the actual
IPs are deployed, but appear not to have done so.
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I find Abongo useful and I'd like to make a donation.
I really appreciate that, but I'm not looking for financial assistance
with Abongo at this time. I am hopeful the ads will eventually generate enough
revenue to cover the costs, but even if they don't, that's ok. Abongo is fast,
lean and cheap to operate. I intend to keep it that way.
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What's with the links at the top?
Those are sites I am associated with. I do what I can to draw
attention to them.
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I have a feature request. Where can I send it?
Right now, I'm not looking for feature requests. I have a clear vision
in my mind of what I want Abongo to look like in a year, and I'm going
to focus my available time on turning that into reality.
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What's this vision?
I won't show all my cards right now, but I don't mind mentioning some
highlights.
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Detailed website information, including keywords and thumbnail images.
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Archival information, so you can review history. This will be cool
for the thumbnail images. You should be able to look back and see
what a site looked like over time.
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Monitoring and email alerts for all searches. If DNS info for your
domain changes, you should get an email telling you. If your search engine
ranking changes (up or down), you should get an email telling you.
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Will you charge for that stuff?
I have no plans to. I'll try to make free work. It's less work
and I won't need to answer to anyone.
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