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AI crawler blocking on .jp sites

Latest sealed date 2026-08-07.

The panel contains 1,990 .jp domains. On 2026-08-07, 842 of them served a robots.txt we could parse; 880 could not be reached at all and have no observed policy. Of the parsed ones, 189 (22.4%) name at least one tracked AI crawler and 139 (16.5%) block at least one site-wide. 30 block every crawler via the wildcard group, counted separately.

In the latest sealed reading for .jp on 2026-08-07, 30 tracked crawler tokens were named by at least one observed file: ClaudeBot: 123 named, 90 blocked site-wide; GPTBot: 122 named, 98 blocked site-wide; meta-externalagent: 101 named, 90 blocked site-wide; Bytespider: 91 named, 83 blocked site-wide; CCBot: 91 named, 86 blocked site-wide; Google-Extended: 89 named, 77 blocked site-wide; Amazonbot: 80 named, 67 blocked site-wide; Applebot-Extended: 77 named, 72 blocked site-wide; ChatGPT-User: 70 named, 55 blocked site-wide; PerplexityBot: 69 named, 52 blocked site-wide; cohere-ai: 60 named, 56 blocked site-wide; OAI-SearchBot: 60 named, 43 blocked site-wide; anthropic-ai: 53 named, 44 blocked site-wide; Timpibot: 47 named, 45 blocked site-wide; Claude-Web: 44 named, 40 blocked site-wide; Diffbot: 43 named, 41 blocked site-wide; omgilibot: 42 named, 40 blocked site-wide; omgili: 41 named, 39 blocked site-wide; Claude-SearchBot: 40 named, 35 blocked site-wide; Claude-User: 38 named, 33 blocked site-wide; Perplexity-User: 38 named, 32 blocked site-wide; FacebookBot: 37 named, 33 blocked site-wide; meta-externalfetcher: 36 named, 34 blocked site-wide; cohere-training-data-crawler: 34 named, 33 blocked site-wide; DuckAssistBot: 25 named, 24 blocked site-wide; ImagesiftBot: 23 named, 20 blocked site-wide; AI2Bot: 19 named, 19 blocked site-wide; PanguBot: 18 named, 18 blocked site-wide; Google-CloudVertexBot: 16 named, 15 blocked site-wide; MistralAI-User: 11 named, 11 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 .jp

CrawlerOperatorNames itBlocks outright% of parsed
ClaudeBotAnthropic1239010.7%
GPTBotOpenAI1229811.6%
meta-externalagentMeta1019010.7%
BytespiderByteDance91839.9%
CCBotCommon Crawl918610.2%
Google-ExtendedGoogle89779.1%
AmazonbotAmazon80678.0%
Applebot-ExtendedApple77728.6%
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI70556.5%
PerplexityBotPerplexity69526.2%
cohere-aiCohere60566.7%
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI60435.1%
anthropic-aiAnthropic53445.2%
TimpibotTimpi47455.3%
Claude-WebAnthropic44404.8%
DiffbotDiffbot43414.9%
omgilibotWebz.io42404.8%
omgiliWebz.io41394.6%
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic40354.2%
Claude-UserAnthropic38333.9%
Perplexity-UserPerplexity38323.8%
FacebookBotMeta37333.9%
meta-externalfetcherMeta36344.0%
cohere-training-data-crawlerCohere34333.9%
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGo25242.9%
ImagesiftBotImageSift23202.4%
AI2BotAi219192.3%
PanguBotHuawei18182.1%
Google-CloudVertexBotGoogle16151.8%
MistralAI-UserMistral11111.3%

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 .jp

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 .jp, the newest recorded 842 domains publishing a parseable robots.txt, against an observed low of 840 on 2026-08-05 and a high of 845 on 2026-08-02. In the newest reading, 189 named at least one tracked AI crawler (range 185 on 2026-07-26 to 190 on 2026-08-06), while 139 blocked at least one (range 136 on 2026-07-26 to 139 on 2026-08-07). 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
2026-08-071,99084218913930
2026-08-061,99084219013930
2026-08-051,99084019013930
2026-08-041,99084118913831
2026-08-031,99084218913831
2026-08-021,99084518713831
2026-08-011,99084118713831
2026-07-311,99084218713831
2026-07-301,99084318713831
2026-07-291,99084218713830
2026-07-281,99084318713830
2026-07-271,99084318713830
2026-07-261,99084218513630
2026-07-251,99084118613730
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 .jp

Across the sealed archive, 268 crawler-verdict transitions were attributed to .jp domains on 38 sealed change dates. The newest aggregate movements are listed below; no domain name or fetched file body is published.

Sealed dateCrawlerVerdict movedDomains
2026-08-07AI2Botnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07Bytespidernot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07CCBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07ChatGPT-Usernot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-07ChatGPT-Userpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-08-07Claude-Usernot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-07ClaudeBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-07cohere-ainot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07cohere-training-data-crawlernot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07Diffbotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07DuckAssistBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07FacebookBotpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-08-07Google-Extendednot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-07GPTBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-07GPTBotpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-08-07ImagesiftBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07meta-externalagentnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07meta-externalagentpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-08-07MistralAI-Usernot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07OAI-SearchBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-07OAI-SearchBotpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-08-07omgilinot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07omgilibotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-07Perplexity-Usernot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-07PerplexityBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-07Timpibotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-05AI2Botnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-05Applebot-Extendednot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-05Bytespidernot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-05CCBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-05ClaudeBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-05Google-Extendednot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-05GPTBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-05ImagesiftBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-05meta-externalagentnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-05PanguBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-03ChatGPT-Usernot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-03FacebookBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-03GPTBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-03meta-externalagentnot mentioned → partly restricted1

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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