HUMAN TEST
We again tried to open our site for users in the USA, Asia and eastern Europe for a couple weeks now,
but to no avail.
Our experience was, that our sites were hammered by uncountable crawlers, harvesters, content scrapers, spammers, vulnerability scanners
and criminal hacking attempts. They are mostly ignoring robot.txt, WTF? We are sick from 100s of MB of unwanted traffic
delaying and sometimes preventing access for our honest visitors.
We do not tolerate this behaviour anymore, even, when losing business overseas.
As a result we blocked access to our sites for most overseas IP adresses indefinitely. You still may be able to visit
our site by using proxies or other european based services. However, IP range blocking may lead to some EU customers beeing
blocked as well. If so, feel free to contact us to be whitelisted individually.
Captchas are annoying, and we will target the problem by a HUMAN TEST as shown on the left. However, we are still in
the process of developing a user friendly interface. Meanwhile, IP blocking is the only potent opportunity to block those gangsters out there.
Thank you for your understanding and sorry for any inconvenience.