oracle.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, oracle.com's robots.txt refused our fetcher (HTTP 403 or a bot challenge), so its policy could not be read.

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

Panel
top 1k (Tranco)
robots.txt
fetch-blocked (HTTP 403) · https://www.oracle.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotunknownfetch-blocked
OAI-SearchBotunknownfetch-blocked
ChatGPT-Userunknownfetch-blocked
ClaudeBotunknownfetch-blocked
Claude-SearchBotunknownfetch-blocked
Claude-Userunknownfetch-blocked
PerplexityBotunknownfetch-blocked
Perplexity-Userunknownfetch-blocked
Googlebotunknownfetch-blocked
Google-Extendedunknownfetch-blocked
Applebot-Extendedunknownfetch-blocked
CCBotunknownfetch-blocked
Bytespiderunknownfetch-blocked
Meta-ExternalAgentunknownfetch-blocked
Amazonbotunknownfetch-blocked

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtnot observed
Publishes /ai.txtnot observed
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonnot observed
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)not observed
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)not observed
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalnot observed
Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header)not observed
Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)not observed
Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)not observed
Sends noai / noimageai directivesnot observed
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)yes

robots.txt as recorded sha256 dda6386cecfd51ab…

# /robots.txt for www.oracle.com
User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://www.oracle.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.oracle.com/international.xml
Disallow: /cis/*
Disallow: /br/homepage-variant24/
Disallow: /de/homepage-variant24/
Disallow: /in/homepage-variant24/
Disallow: /corporate/contracts/
Disallow: /errordocs/
Disallow: /errors/
Disallow: /a/docs/gated/
Disallow: /go/
Disallow: /goto/
Disallow: /jscripts/
Disallow: /jsp/events/
Disallow: /ocom/idcplg
Disallow: /ocom/groups/public/@ocom/documents/webcontent/
Disallow: /partners/internal/
Disallow: /partners/secure/
Disallow: /pls/
Disallow: /splash/
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /us/dm/
Disallow: /us/internal/
Disallow: /ultrasearch/
Disallow: /webapps/
Disallow: /wocportal/
Disallow: /_qa/
Disallow: /a/ocom/resources/
Disallow: /financial-services/ofss/
Disallow: /a/ocom/docs/corporate/pricing/
Disallow: /webfolder/branddesigntests/
Disallow: /assets/managed-cloud-services-sd-4738082.pdf
Disallow: /us/corporate/contracts/mcs-iaas-service-desc-3014939.pdf
Disallow: /us/corporate/contracts/mcs-saas-service-desc-3762902.pdf
Disallow: /cloud/multicloud-solution/

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-262026-10-28fetch-blocked 403–

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

Evidence

Every daily observation of oracle.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/oracle.com