404 URLS Going out to 3rd parties?

I am a web developer who recently noticed an issue and thought I would bring it to the attention of the Firefox developers.
To test pages on websites (i.e. 404 response pages) I will intentionally put something to the effect of:
http://www.MyDomain.com/ThisIsABadPage1234.html
Into Firefox to get the 404 page to pop up. I have done this for years sure, but a couple weeks ago I started getting bots searching my website for that exact address. I am now seeing bots from around the world querying my servers for that address. It is showing up in my logs on a weekly basis.
Not just one site, but a few which I have done recently - all with very obscure URLs I created when I tested like the one above.
My question is - how are people getting this information and how does one stop it? I am putting a URL directly into Firefox, nowhere else. Why is it or how is it being redirected to script kiddies who are now trying to search for it?

If you purchased the AppleCare extended warranty that would mean your system is covered a full 3 years from the date of purchase. You can go to this site:
https://selfsolve.apple.com/GetWarranty.do
and it will tell you the exact date your warranty expires. If you are still covered contact Apple directly explain the problem. Because this is the third time you have had the same thing fail it is possible you might be entitled to a replacement machine.
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