globalsign.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 28 October 2026, globalsign.com's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and CCBot.

Last verified 2026-10-29 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-28). Proof for that day.

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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.globalsign.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 423bc5c8ae7d04ca… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-28

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 92a4c4b12217e14b…

Sitemap:https://www.globalsign.com/sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /en/aeg-installer/*
Disallow: /en/resources/apis/api-documentation/*
Disallow: /en/blog/topic*
Disallow: /en/resources/topic*
Disallow: /en-gb/blog/topic*
Disallow: /en-gb/resources/topic*
Disallow: /en-ae/blog/topic*
Disallow: /en-ae/resources/topic*
Disallow: /en-in/blog/topic*
Disallow: /en-in/resources/topic*
Disallow: /en-sg/resources/topic*
Disallow: /en-sg/blog/topic*
Disallow: /en-au/resources/topic*
Disallow: /en-au/blog/topic*
Disallow: /en-hk/resources/topic*
Disallow: /en-hk/blog/topic*
Disallow: /en-ph/resources/topic*
Disallow: /en-ph/blog/topic*
Disallow: /es/blog/topic*
Disallow: /es/resources/topic*
Disallow: /de-de/ressourcen/topic*
Disallow: /de-de/blog/topic*
Disallow: /fr/documentation/topic*
Disallow: /fr/blog/topic*
Disallow: /fr-be/documentation/topic*
Disallow: /fr-be/blog/topic*
Disallow: /nl-nl/informatiebronnen/topic*
Disallow: /nl-nl/blog/topic*
Disallow: /nl-be/informatiebronnen/topic*
Disallow: /nl-be/blog/topic*
Disallow: /th-th/resources/topic*
Disallow: /th-th/blog/topic*
Disallow: /ru-ru/resources/topic*
Disallow: /ru-ru/blog/topic*
Disallow: /rss-feed/*
Disallow: /es/blog/topic/*
Disallow: /es/company/news-events/news*
Disallow: /es/company/news-events/press*
Disallow: /es/resources*
Disallow: /es/resources/datasheets*
Disallow: /es/resources/white-papers-ebooks*
Disallow: /es/company/news-events/news?ccm_order_by*
Disallow: /es/company/news-events/press?ccm_order_by*
Disallow: /es/company/news-events?ccm_order_by*
Disallow: /es/resources?ccm_order_by*
Disallow: /es/blog?ccm_order_by*
Disallow: /en/resources?ccm_order_by*
Disallow: /en/resources/white-papers-ebooks?ccm_paging*
Disallow: /en/resources/webinars?ccm_paging*
Disallow: /en/resources/datasheets?ccm_paging*
Disallow: /en/resources/case-studies?ccm_paging*
Disallow: /en/resources/blog?ccm_paging*
Disallow: /en/resources/blog/topic/*
Disallow: /en/blog?ccm*

robots.txt versions

Timeline of changes

Reconstructed history (Common Crawl)

From Common Crawl's robots.txt captures: what CCBot was served, one crawl per quarter. A separate series from the daily observations above; a 403 here means Common Crawl was refused, not this ledger.

Evidence

Every daily observation of globalsign.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-28: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (pending (4 calendars)).

API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/globalsign.com