Interesting Duke,
I wonder what one could possibly violate at alea.com

I have no idea but I am locked out for some strange reason. It's not a browser problem either as I can't access it from home no matter what I use.

I don't really care but it is strange.

hosting providers can share out IP addresses amoungst their customers, so perhaps the past person to use it was banned?

Well it must be a range of IP's banned because the IP listed isn't mine but I'm still not allowed access.

its a google IP address used by their crawl bot, you couldnt even be on the same netblock.

Must be a screw up at their end.

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Name: crawl-66-249-66-205.googlebot.com
IP Address: 66.249.66.205
Location: Sunnyvale (37.417N, 122.061W)
Network: GOOGLE
OrgName: Google Inc.
OrgID: GOGL
Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
City: Mountain View
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94043
Country: US

NetRange: 66.249.64.0 - 66.249.95.255
CIDR: 66.249.64.0/19
NetName: GOOGLE
NetHandle: NET-66-249-64-0-1
Parent: NET-66-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.GOOGLE.COM
NameServer: NS2.GOOGLE.COM
Comment:
RegDate: 2004-03-05
Updated: 2004-11-10

OrgTechHandle: ZG39-ARIN
OrgTechName: Google Inc.
OrgTechPhone: +1-650-318-0200
OrgTechEmail: arin-contact@google.com

Have you got the google toolbar installed with any bells and whistles running? If yes, then that might well be it, as the toolbar does some real sneaky stuff .

I have PR and a few other thing enabled but it used to work just fine. I've made no changes to the toolbar since installing it, or at least none that I'm aware of.

Deending on the way you signed up the google tb autoupdates. try removing it (or turning it off) and revisiting the site. then try visiting from a proxy.

I may give that a try I guess. It's not really a big deal, just kind of interesting.