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AI crawler blocking on .cc sites

Latest sealed date 2026-08-07.

The panel contains 337 .cc domains. On 2026-08-07, 175 of them served a robots.txt we could parse; 114 could not be reached at all and have no observed policy. Of the parsed ones, 50 (28.6%) name at least one tracked AI crawler and 49 (28.0%) block at least one site-wide. 14 block every crawler via the wildcard group, counted separately.

In the latest sealed reading for .cc on 2026-08-07, 30 tracked crawler tokens were named by at least one observed file: GPTBot: 45 named, 40 blocked site-wide; Bytespider: 44 named, 44 blocked site-wide; ClaudeBot: 43 named, 40 blocked site-wide; Amazonbot: 42 named, 38 blocked site-wide; CCBot: 40 named, 39 blocked site-wide; meta-externalagent: 40 named, 37 blocked site-wide; Applebot-Extended: 39 named, 38 blocked site-wide; Google-Extended: 39 named, 37 blocked site-wide; ChatGPT-User: 13 named, 8 blocked site-wide; PerplexityBot: 12 named, 7 blocked site-wide; anthropic-ai: 8 named, 6 blocked site-wide; Claude-Web: 7 named, 5 blocked site-wide; OAI-SearchBot: 7 named, 1 blocked site-wide; cohere-ai: 6 named, 5 blocked site-wide; ImagesiftBot: 6 named, 6 blocked site-wide; omgili: 5 named, 5 blocked site-wide; omgilibot: 5 named, 5 blocked site-wide; FacebookBot: 3 named, 2 blocked site-wide; Claude-SearchBot: 2 named, 1 blocked site-wide; Claude-User: 2 named, 1 blocked site-wide; Perplexity-User: 2 named, 2 blocked site-wide; AI2Bot: 1 named, 1 blocked site-wide; cohere-training-data-crawler: 1 named, 1 blocked site-wide; Diffbot: 1 named, 1 blocked site-wide; DuckAssistBot: 1 named, 0 blocked site-wide; Google-CloudVertexBot: 1 named, 1 blocked site-wide; meta-externalfetcher: 1 named, 0 blocked site-wide; MistralAI-User: 1 named, 1 blocked site-wide; PanguBot: 1 named, 1 blocked site-wide; Timpibot: 1 named, 1 blocked site-wide. Each entry keeps the named count before the fully-blocked count. A tracked token absent from the list had zero observed mentions; the counts describe file declarations, not crawler behavior.

What "suffix" means here. The final DNS label, not the effective top-level domain. A .co.uk site is counted under .uk. Computing a true effective TLD needs the Public Suffix List, which this surface does not ship, and approximating one would put a wrong denominator under every figure on this page.

Every tracked crawler on .cc

CrawlerOperatorNames itBlocks outright% of parsed
GPTBotOpenAI454022.9%
BytespiderByteDance444425.1%
ClaudeBotAnthropic434022.9%
AmazonbotAmazon423821.7%
CCBotCommon Crawl403922.3%
meta-externalagentMeta403721.1%
Applebot-ExtendedApple393821.7%
Google-ExtendedGoogle393721.1%
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI1384.6%
PerplexityBotPerplexity1274.0%
anthropic-aiAnthropic863.4%
Claude-WebAnthropic752.9%
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI710.6%
cohere-aiCohere652.9%
ImagesiftBotImageSift663.4%
omgiliWebz.io552.9%
omgilibotWebz.io552.9%
FacebookBotMeta321.1%
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic210.6%
Claude-UserAnthropic210.6%
Perplexity-UserPerplexity221.1%
AI2BotAi2110.6%
cohere-training-data-crawlerCohere110.6%
DiffbotDiffbot110.6%
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGo100.0%
Google-CloudVertexBotGoogle110.6%
meta-externalfetcherMeta100.0%
MistralAI-UserMistral110.6%
PanguBotHuawei110.6%
TimpibotTimpi110.6%

Blocks outright — the file has a group for that exact product token containing Disallow: / with no overriding allow. Partly restricts — a group exists with at least one non-empty Disallow, but not the whole site. Names & allows — a group exists with no effective Disallow. Everything else is not mentioned: the wildcard * group governs it, and wildcard effects are counted separately rather than folded in, because a site that blocks everything has not made a decision about any AI crawler in particular. Matching is exact and case-insensitive per RFC 9309 — never substring.

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14 newest sealed readings for .cc

For each date, the table keeps the panel count beside the parseable robots.txt denominator, the sites naming or blocking a tracked AI crawler, and wildcard blocks. Unreachable or unusable responses are excluded rather than treated as permissive. These are aggregate observations of published files, not crawler behavior or the intent behind a declaration.

Across the 14 sealed readings shown for .cc, the newest recorded 175 domains publishing a parseable robots.txt, against an observed low of 174 on 2026-08-01 and a high of 178 on 2026-08-02. In the newest reading, 50 named at least one tracked AI crawler (range 49 on 2026-07-30 to 52 on 2026-08-02), while 49 blocked at least one (range 48 on 2026-07-26 to 50 on 2026-08-03). These are aggregate observations of published files. A movement can reflect changed fetch coverage as well as a changed file; it does not describe motive or crawler behavior.

Sealed datePanel domainsParsedNames anyBlocks anyWildcard block
2026-08-07337175504914
2026-08-06337176514916
2026-08-05337174504814
2026-08-04337174514914
2026-08-03337175515014
2026-08-02337178525016
2026-08-01337174494815
2026-07-31337175494816
2026-07-30337175494815
2026-07-29337176504816
2026-07-28337177504916
2026-07-27337178515016
2026-07-26337175504815
2026-07-25337177514916
Read this before quoting a trend. We hold 55 sealed daily snapshots between 2026-06-09 and 2026-08-07, out of 60 calendar days. 5 calendar day(s) inside that span have no collection run at all: 2026-06-11, 2026-06-12, 2026-06-19, 2026-07-04, 2026-07-15. Consecutive rows in every table below are consecutive SEALED dates, not consecutive days — where a gap falls, that row's diff covers more than 24 hours, and the span is printed with it. We do not interpolate across a day we did not collect.

Observed AI-crawler verdict changes on .cc

Across the sealed archive, 174 crawler-verdict transitions were attributed to .cc domains on 23 sealed change dates. The newest aggregate movements are listed below; no domain name or fetched file body is published.

Sealed dateCrawlerVerdict movedDomains
2026-08-07ClaudeBotpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-08-07GPTBotpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-08-04ClaudeBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-04GPTBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-03ClaudeBotpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-08-03GPTBotpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-08-02ClaudeBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-02GPTBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-30ClaudeBotpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-07-30GPTBotpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-07-29ClaudeBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-29GPTBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-27ClaudeBotpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-07-27GPTBotpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-07-25ClaudeBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-25GPTBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-07-22AI2Botblocked outright → not mentioned1
2026-07-22Diffbotblocked outright → not mentioned1
2026-07-22DuckAssistBotblocked outright → not mentioned1
2026-07-22FacebookBotblocked outright → not mentioned1
2026-07-22Timpibotblocked outright → not mentioned1
2026-07-05AI2Botblocked outright → not mentioned2
2026-07-05Diffbotblocked outright → not mentioned2
2026-07-05DuckAssistBotblocked outright → not mentioned2
2026-07-05FacebookBotblocked outright → not mentioned2
2026-07-05Timpibotblocked outright → not mentioned2
2026-07-03Amazonbotnamed and allowed → blocked outright3
2026-07-03Applebot-Extendednamed and allowed → blocked outright3
2026-07-03Bytespidernamed and allowed → blocked outright3
2026-07-03Google-Extendednamed and allowed → blocked outright3
2026-07-03ClaudeBotpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-07-03GPTBotpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-07-02AI2Botnot mentioned → blocked outright3
2026-07-02Amazonbotblocked outright → named and allowed3
2026-07-02Applebot-Extendedblocked outright → named and allowed3
2026-07-02Bytespiderblocked outright → named and allowed3
2026-07-02Diffbotnot mentioned → blocked outright3
2026-07-02DuckAssistBotnot mentioned → blocked outright3
2026-07-02FacebookBotnot mentioned → blocked outright3
2026-07-02Google-Extendedblocked outright → named and allowed3

Compiled from each site's own published /robots.txt, /ai.txt, /llms.txt and /.well-known/tdmrep.json, fetched daily over a frozen 100,000-domain research panel (source list: Tranco; no Tranco rank is republished here). Verdicts are mechanical readings of what those files say under RFC 9309 grouping with exact product-token matching — they are not legal advice, not a statement about any site's intentions, and not a claim about what any crawler actually did. A robots.txt is a request, not an access control. Figures are provided for informational purposes only and carry no warranty of accuracy or completeness.

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