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AI crawler blocking on .ru sites

Latest sealed date 2026-08-07.

The panel contains 3,621 .ru domains. On 2026-08-07, 2,186 of them served a robots.txt we could parse; 942 could not be reached at all and have no observed policy. Of the parsed ones, 257 (11.8%) name at least one tracked AI crawler and 199 (9.1%) block at least one site-wide. 88 block every crawler via the wildcard group, counted separately.

In the latest sealed reading for .ru on 2026-08-07, 30 tracked crawler tokens were named by at least one observed file: GPTBot: 189 named, 134 blocked site-wide; CCBot: 125 named, 100 blocked site-wide; ClaudeBot: 104 named, 63 blocked site-wide; ChatGPT-User: 94 named, 55 blocked site-wide; Bytespider: 93 named, 81 blocked site-wide; Amazonbot: 79 named, 66 blocked site-wide; Google-Extended: 79 named, 39 blocked site-wide; PerplexityBot: 68 named, 18 blocked site-wide; meta-externalagent: 63 named, 44 blocked site-wide; anthropic-ai: 57 named, 36 blocked site-wide; Applebot-Extended: 50 named, 29 blocked site-wide; OAI-SearchBot: 50 named, 14 blocked site-wide; FacebookBot: 45 named, 34 blocked site-wide; cohere-ai: 40 named, 29 blocked site-wide; ImagesiftBot: 38 named, 37 blocked site-wide; omgili: 33 named, 31 blocked site-wide; Claude-Web: 27 named, 15 blocked site-wide; Perplexity-User: 19 named, 6 blocked site-wide; Claude-SearchBot: 18 named, 10 blocked site-wide; Diffbot: 18 named, 13 blocked site-wide; DuckAssistBot: 12 named, 4 blocked site-wide; omgilibot: 12 named, 12 blocked site-wide; Claude-User: 11 named, 5 blocked site-wide; meta-externalfetcher: 9 named, 6 blocked site-wide; Timpibot: 8 named, 6 blocked site-wide; AI2Bot: 7 named, 5 blocked site-wide; MistralAI-User: 7 named, 3 blocked site-wide; Google-CloudVertexBot: 5 named, 4 blocked site-wide; PanguBot: 5 named, 5 blocked site-wide; cohere-training-data-crawler: 4 named, 3 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 .ru

CrawlerOperatorNames itBlocks outright% of parsed
GPTBotOpenAI1891346.1%
CCBotCommon Crawl1251004.6%
ClaudeBotAnthropic104632.9%
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI94552.5%
BytespiderByteDance93813.7%
AmazonbotAmazon79663.0%
Google-ExtendedGoogle79391.8%
PerplexityBotPerplexity68180.8%
meta-externalagentMeta63442.0%
anthropic-aiAnthropic57361.6%
Applebot-ExtendedApple50291.3%
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI50140.6%
FacebookBotMeta45341.6%
cohere-aiCohere40291.3%
ImagesiftBotImageSift38371.7%
omgiliWebz.io33311.4%
Claude-WebAnthropic27150.7%
Perplexity-UserPerplexity1960.3%
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic18100.5%
DiffbotDiffbot18130.6%
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGo1240.2%
omgilibotWebz.io12120.5%
Claude-UserAnthropic1150.2%
meta-externalfetcherMeta960.3%
TimpibotTimpi860.3%
AI2BotAi2750.2%
MistralAI-UserMistral730.1%
Google-CloudVertexBotGoogle540.2%
PanguBotHuawei550.2%
cohere-training-data-crawlerCohere430.1%

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 .ru

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 .ru, the newest recorded 2,186 domains publishing a parseable robots.txt, against an observed low of 2,061 on 2026-07-27 and a high of 2,187 on 2026-08-02. In the newest reading, 257 named at least one tracked AI crawler (range 241 on 2026-07-27 to 259 on 2026-07-30), while 199 blocked at least one (range 185 on 2026-07-27 to 199 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
2026-08-073,6212,18625719988
2026-08-063,6212,16825419788
2026-08-053,6212,13525619984
2026-08-043,6212,17925419786
2026-08-033,6212,16325519487
2026-08-023,6212,18725719586
2026-08-013,6212,18725819986
2026-07-313,6212,16825419687
2026-07-303,6212,15025919988
2026-07-293,6212,12924919188
2026-07-283,6212,18225419788
2026-07-273,6212,06124118585
2026-07-263,6212,14224819187
2026-07-253,6212,15525419588
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 .ru

Across the sealed archive, 607 crawler-verdict transitions were attributed to .ru domains on 51 sealed change dates. The newest aggregate movements are listed below; no domain name or fetched file body is published.

Sealed dateCrawlerVerdict movedDomains
2026-08-07ClaudeBotnot mentioned → named and allowed2
2026-08-07GPTBotnot mentioned → named and allowed2
2026-08-07PerplexityBotnot mentioned → named and allowed2
2026-08-07Amazonbotnot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-08-07anthropic-ainot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-08-07Applebot-Extendednot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-08-07Bytespidernot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-08-07CCBotnot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-08-07ChatGPT-Usernot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-08-07Claude-Webnot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-08-07ClaudeBotnamed and allowed → not mentioned1
2026-08-07Diffbotnot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-08-07Google-Extendednot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-08-07Google-Extendednamed and allowed → not mentioned1
2026-08-07OAI-SearchBotnot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-08-07OAI-SearchBotnamed and allowed → not mentioned1
2026-08-07PerplexityBotnamed and allowed → not mentioned1
2026-08-06Amazonbotblocked outright → not mentioned1
2026-08-06anthropic-ainot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-06Bytespidernot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-06Bytespiderblocked outright → not mentioned1
2026-08-06CCBotnot mentioned → partly restricted1
2026-08-06CCBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-06ChatGPT-Usernot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-06ClaudeBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-06ClaudeBotnamed and allowed → not mentioned1
2026-08-06GPTBotnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-06GPTBotnamed and allowed → not mentioned1
2026-08-06meta-externalagentnot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-06omgilinot mentioned → blocked outright1
2026-08-06PerplexityBotnamed and allowed → not mentioned1
2026-08-04CCBotpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-08-03anthropic-aipartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-08-03ChatGPT-Usernot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-08-03ChatGPT-Usernamed and allowed → not mentioned1
2026-08-03Claude-Webnamed and allowed → not mentioned1
2026-08-03ClaudeBotnot mentioned → named and allowed1
2026-08-03ClaudeBotpartly restricted → not mentioned1
2026-08-03ClaudeBotnamed and allowed → not mentioned1
2026-08-03Google-Extendedpartly restricted → not mentioned1

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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