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AI crawler blocking on .online sites

Latest sealed date 2026-08-07.

The panel contains 268 .online domains. On 2026-08-07, 136 of them served a robots.txt we could parse; 88 could not be reached at all and have no observed policy. Of the parsed ones, 34 (25.0%) name at least one tracked AI crawler and 32 (23.5%) block at least one site-wide. 13 block every crawler via the wildcard group, counted separately.

In the latest sealed reading for .online on 2026-08-07, 22 tracked crawler tokens were named by at least one observed file: GPTBot: 31 named, 29 blocked site-wide; CCBot: 30 named, 29 blocked site-wide; Bytespider: 29 named, 28 blocked site-wide; ClaudeBot: 29 named, 27 blocked site-wide; Google-Extended: 29 named, 27 blocked site-wide; Amazonbot: 26 named, 26 blocked site-wide; meta-externalagent: 26 named, 26 blocked site-wide; Applebot-Extended: 25 named, 25 blocked site-wide; PerplexityBot: 4 named, 2 blocked site-wide; ChatGPT-User: 3 named, 1 blocked site-wide; anthropic-ai: 2 named, 1 blocked site-wide; meta-externalfetcher: 2 named, 2 blocked site-wide; omgili: 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; FacebookBot: 1 named, 1 blocked site-wide; ImagesiftBot: 1 named, 1 blocked site-wide; OAI-SearchBot: 1 named, 0 blocked site-wide; omgilibot: 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 .online

CrawlerOperatorNames itBlocks outright% of parsed
GPTBotOpenAI312921.3%
CCBotCommon Crawl302921.3%
BytespiderByteDance292820.6%
ClaudeBotAnthropic292719.9%
Google-ExtendedGoogle292719.9%
AmazonbotAmazon262619.1%
meta-externalagentMeta262619.1%
Applebot-ExtendedApple252518.4%
PerplexityBotPerplexity421.5%
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI310.7%
anthropic-aiAnthropic210.7%
meta-externalfetcherMeta221.5%
omgiliWebz.io221.5%
AI2BotAi2110.7%
cohere-training-data-crawlerCohere110.7%
DiffbotDiffbot110.7%
FacebookBotMeta110.7%
ImagesiftBotImageSift110.7%
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI100.0%
omgilibotWebz.io110.7%
PanguBotHuawei110.7%
TimpibotTimpi110.7%

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 .online

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 .online, the newest recorded 136 domains publishing a parseable robots.txt, against an observed low of 135 on 2026-07-29 and a high of 140 on 2026-07-28. In the newest reading, 34 named at least one tracked AI crawler (range 31 on 2026-07-29 to 34 on 2026-08-07), while 32 blocked at least one (range 29 on 2026-07-29 to 32 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
2026-08-07268136343213
2026-08-06268137343213
2026-08-05268135323013
2026-08-04268136333113
2026-08-03268135323013
2026-08-02268136312913
2026-08-01268135323012
2026-07-31268138323014
2026-07-30268136323014
2026-07-29268135312914
2026-07-28268140333114
2026-07-27268138323014
2026-07-26268139333114
2026-07-25268140333114
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 .online

Across the sealed archive, 19 crawler-verdict transitions were attributed to .online domains on 3 sealed change dates. The newest aggregate movements are listed below; no domain name or fetched file body is published.

Sealed dateCrawlerVerdict movedDomains
2026-08-06Bytespidernot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-06CCBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-06ClaudeBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-06Google-Extendednot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-06GPTBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-06OAI-SearchBotnot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-07-17Amazonbotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-17Applebot-Extendednot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-17Bytespidernot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-17CCBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-17ClaudeBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-17Google-Extendednot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-17GPTBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-07-17meta-externalagentnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-06-16ChatGPT-Usernot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-06-16ClaudeBotnot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-06-16Google-Extendednot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-06-16GPTBotnot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-06-16PerplexityBotnot mentioned → named and allowed1

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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