name.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, name.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot; it also published llms.txt.

Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.

Panel
top 1k (Tranco)
robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.name.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 c14610f5711a268d… · view as recorded
The * group
allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotallowsthrough the * group
OAI-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
ChatGPT-Userallowsthrough the * group
ClaudeBotallowsthrough the * group
Claude-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
Claude-Userallowsthrough the * group
PerplexityBotallowsthrough the * group
Perplexity-Userallowsthrough the * group
Googlebotallowsthrough the * group
Google-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
Applebot-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
CCBotallowsthrough the * group
Bytespiderallowsthrough the * group
Meta-ExternalAgentblocksnamed in its own group
Amazonbotallowsthrough the * group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtyes
Publishes /ai.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonno
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)no
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)no
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalno
Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header)no
Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)no
Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)no
Sends noai / noimageai directivesno
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)no

llms.txt: "Name.com", 549 bytes, 0 links.

robots.txt as recorded sha256 fa1599318bb9d98e…

User-agent: *

Disallow: /*?subject=

Disallow: /api$
Disallow: /v4/

Disallow: /domain/renew
Disallow: /leaving
Disallow: /account/credentials/claim_account

Disallow: */domain/search/*

Disallow: /de-de/de-de/
Disallow: /de-de/en-us/
Disallow: /de-de/es-la/
Disallow: /de-de/fr-fr/
Disallow: /de-de/pt-br/
Disallow: /de-de/ru-ru/
Disallow: /de-de/tr-tr/
Disallow: /de-de/zh-cn/
Disallow: /en-us/de-de/
Disallow: /en-us/en-us/
Disallow: /en-us/es-la/
Disallow: /en-us/fr-fr/
Disallow: /en-us/pt-br/
Disallow: /en-us/ru-ru/
Disallow: /en-us/tr-tr/
Disallow: /en-us/zh-cn/
Disallow: /es-la/de-de/
Disallow: /es-la/en-us/
Disallow: /es-la/es-la/
Disallow: /es-la/fr-fr/
Disallow: /es-la/pt-br/
Disallow: /es-la/ru-ru/
Disallow: /es-la/tr-tr/
Disallow: /es-la/zh-cn/
Disallow: /fr-fr/de-de/
Disallow: /fr-fr/en-us/
Disallow: /fr-fr/es-la/
Disallow: /fr-fr/fr-fr/
Disallow: /fr-fr/pt-br/
Disallow: /fr-fr/ru-ru/
Disallow: /fr-fr/tr-tr/
Disallow: /fr-fr/zh-cn/
Disallow: /pt-br/de-de/
Disallow: /pt-br/en-us/
Disallow: /pt-br/es-la/
Disallow: /pt-br/fr-fr/
Disallow: /pt-br/pt-br/
Disallow: /pt-br/ru-ru/
Disallow: /pt-br/tr-tr/
Disallow: /pt-br/zh-cn/
Disallow: /ru-ru/de-de/
Disallow: /ru-ru/en-us/
Disallow: /ru-ru/es-la/
Disallow: /ru-ru/fr-fr/
Disallow: /ru-ru/pt-br/
Disallow: /ru-ru/ru-ru/
Disallow: /ru-ru/tr-tr/
Disallow: /ru-ru/zh-cn/
Disallow: /tr-tr/de-de/
Disallow: /tr-tr/en-us/
Disallow: /tr-tr/es-la/
Disallow: /tr-tr/fr-fr/
Disallow: /tr-tr/pt-br/
Disallow: /tr-tr/ru-ru/
Disallow: /tr-tr/tr-tr/
Disallow: /tr-tr/zh-cn/
Disallow: /zh-cn/de-de/
Disallow: /zh-cn/en-us/
Disallow: /zh-cn/es-la/
Disallow: /zh-cn/fr-fr/
Disallow: /zh-cn/pt-br/
Disallow: /zh-cn/ru-ru/
Disallow: /zh-cn/tr-tr/
Disallow: /zh-cn/zh-cn/


Disallow: /?share=
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /blog/search/

Disallow: /*?d=

Disallow: /account/
Allow: /account/login
Allow:/account/create

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

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-262026-10-27ok 200c14610f5711a

Timeline of changes

DateWhat changed
No changes since the first observation (2026-10-26).

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.

CrawlHostStateGPTBotOAI-SearchBotChatGPT-UserClaudeBotClaude-SearchBotClaude-UserPerplexityBot
2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39www.name.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38www.name.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38www.name.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40www.name.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40www.name.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39www.name.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40www.name.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39www.name.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39www.name.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05www.name.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43www.name.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39www.name.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30www.name.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17name.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04www.name.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40name.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36name.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial

Evidence

Every daily observation of name.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-27: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973493)).

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