On a semi-related note that mail from slicehost is excellent customer service. A lot of companies could learn from that - right now they're getting valuable free marketing on HN.
This was the entire email:
Hey David,
When I do a dig on the URL in question, it comes back with the following information:
dig qdb.taranen.co.uk
; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> qdb.taranen.co.uk
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21877
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;qdb.taranen.co.uk. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
qdb.taranen.co.uk. 257 IN A 174.143.153.245
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
taranen.co.uk. 172800 IN NS ns.123-reg.co.uk.
taranen.co.uk. 172800 IN NS ns2.123-reg.co.uk.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns.123-reg.co.uk. 2320 IN A 212.67.202.2
ns2.123-reg.co.uk. 2320 IN A 92.51.159.40
;; Query time: 218 msec
;; SERVER: 10.6.24.4#53(10.6.24.4)
;; WHEN: Wed Nov 18 13:10:06 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 126
174.143.153.245 is a Slicehost IP, but I see nothing in their account or records that I can find that would indicate they are pointing any DNS at your IP (which is how I suspect Google would have indexed that way). You may want to contact Google to see how they've come upon this index record for your site as I'm unsure of the specifics, but again, based on what I'm able to see I see no reason why this would be happening. They're not pointing any DNS records at your Slice IP so they're not (as far as I know) sending any traffic to your site via a URL you're unaware of.
If it turns out that they are pointing DNS at your slice IP you would want to send them (or their DNS provider, which is not Slicehost) a notice asking that they stop pointing the name at your IP. According to the whois records, their name servers are set with:
Name servers:
ns.123-reg.co.uk
ns2.123-reg.co.uk
Let me know if there is anything else we can help you with.
Cheers.
-- Ben H - Slicehost Join the Slicehost community! Notices and Alerts Follow us on twitter: @slicehoststatus @slicehost