Who blocks AI · #602 in the Majestic Million

robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does namepros.com block AI crawlers?

No. namepros.com’s robots.txt lets all 19 AI crawlers we track crawl the site. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotAllowed OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: www.namepros.com/robots.txt · 135 lines
llms.txt: none
Checked: 9 November 2026, as canaicrawl. We check again every week.

Every bot, and the line that decides

Search engines

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`Googlebot`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot`	Apple	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

AI search

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`OAI-SearchBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Claude-SearchBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DuckAssistBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Amazonbot`	Amazon	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`YouBot`	You.com	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Google-Extended`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`GoogleOther`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`MistralAI-User`	Mistral	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Meta-ExternalFetcher`	Meta	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

SEO tools

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`AhrefsBot`	Ahrefs	Partly blocked	line 116 · `Disallow: /account/` line 117 · `Disallow: /conversations/` and 12 more
`SemrushBot`	Semrush	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DotBot`	Moz	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

View www.namepros.com/robots.txt · 135 lines

1# vim: ft=robots

3# Every eligible parked lander (www.namepros.com/parked/...), built twice daily

4# by NP\Parking\Cron\ExportInventoryFeed next to domains.csv. The index lives on

5# the CDN host, which serves this same file, so /data/feeds/ must stay allowed

6# below the /data/ disallow or crawlers cannot fetch it.

7Sitemap: https://nameproscdn.com/data/feeds/sitemap-parked.xml

9# Mediapartners-Google and AdsBot-Google ignore wildcard groups.

10User-agent: *

11Allow: /data/feeds/

14##

15# Inaccessible by crawlers because of authentication requirements

16##

18# Require login

19Disallow: /account/

20Disallow: /blog/*/metrics$

21Disallow: /blog/*/reply$

22Disallow: /blog/*/reply?

23Disallow: /blog/*/unread$

24Disallow: /blog/*/watch$

25Disallow: /blog/create-thread

26Disallow: /blog/post-thread

27Disallow: /chat/

28Disallow: /conversations/

29Disallow: /credits/

30Disallow: /forums/*/create-thread

31Disallow: /forums/*/post-thread

32Disallow: /forums/*/watch$

33Disallow: /points/*/add$

34Disallow: /points/*/remove$

35Disallow: /pq/points/*/*/add$

36Disallow: /pq/points/*/*/remove$

37Disallow: /pq/quick-replies/*/*/mode?

38Disallow: /pq/quick-replies/*/*/reply?

39Disallow: /quick-reply/*/reply?

40Disallow: /quick-reply/*/toggle-mode?

41Disallow: /tags/*/watch$

42Disallow: /threads/*/metrics$

43Disallow: /threads/*/reply$

44Disallow: /threads/*/reply?

45Disallow: /threads/*/unread$

46Disallow: /threads/*/watch$

48# Require POST

49Disallow: /login/login

50Disallow: /register/register

52# Require login often enough to cause problems

53Disallow: /members/list/

54Disallow: /members/list$

55Disallow: /members/list?

56Disallow: /members/*/followers

57Disallow: /members/*/following

58Disallow: /members/*/post-areas

59Disallow: /members/*/recent-activity

60Disallow: /members/*/recent-content

61Disallow: /members/*/trophies

63# Transient pages

64# Each what's-new listing is a numbered copy of threads that exist elsewhere; one

65# crawler read 771,000 of them in a day (2026-10-28), 21 GB that never gets indexed.

66Disallow: /whats-new/

67Disallow: /search/1*/

68Disallow: /search/2*/

69Disallow: /search/3*/

70Disallow: /search/4*/

71Disallow: /search/5*/

72Disallow: /search/6*/

73Disallow: /search/7*/

74Disallow: /search/8*/

75Disallow: /search/9*/

76Disallow: /search/member$

77Disallow: /search/member?

79##

80# Only intended for real, authentic, genuine homo sapiens

81##

83Disallow: /bclk/

84Disallow: /bevt/

87##

88# Internal stuff.

89##

91# If you're a hacker, go straight to /internal/ because it's obviously the most vulnerable.

92# That's where we hide our ion cannon. (We have cake!)

94Disallow: /admin.php

95Disallow: /internal/

98##

99# Bots that ignore *

100##

101

102User-agent: AdsBot-Google

103User-agent: Mediapartners-Google

104Disallow: /bclk/

105Disallow: /bevt/

106

107

108##

109# Less-than-intelligent bots that can't properly parse constructs such as rel="nofollow", X-Robots-Tag, or base tags.

110# They also tend not to deduplicate URLs (so if a link to /misc/style appears on every page, they'll crawl it once for each page).

111# If your crawler appears here, it's probably snowballing, resulting in a ridiculous number of requests.

112##

113

114User-agent: AhrefsBot

115User-agent: Linguee

116Disallow: /account/

117Disallow: /conversations/

118Disallow: /credits/

119Disallow: /posts/

120Disallow: /find-new/

121Disallow: /search/

122Disallow: /tradereviews/

123Disallow: /members/

124Disallow: /misc/

125Disallow: /goto/

126Disallow: /data/

127Disallow: /thanks/

128Disallow: /bclk/

129Disallow: /bevt/

130

131

132# THE CAKE IS A LIE

133# THE CAKE IS A LIE

134# THE CAKE IS^D

135

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what namepros.com asks of crawlers. A firewall or CDN can still refuse a bot that robots.txt allows. The live check requests the page as each bot and shows the status it gets.

Run a live check on namepros.com Test a path in the robots.txt tester

History

19 October 2026: first checked.

Questions

Does namepros.com block GPTBot?

No. namepros.com’s robots.txt lets GPTBot crawl the site. GPTBot is OpenAI’s crawler for training data; blocking it doesn’t affect ChatGPT search, which uses OAI-SearchBot. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does namepros.com block ClaudeBot?

No. namepros.com’s robots.txt lets ClaudeBot crawl the site. ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does namepros.com block Google-Extended?

No. namepros.com’s robots.txt lets Google-Extended crawl the site. Google-Extended is the token that controls whether Google may use pages for Gemini training and grounding; it doesn’t affect Google Search. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does namepros.com block PerplexityBot?

No. namepros.com’s robots.txt lets PerplexityBot crawl the site. PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.

Can ChatGPT search find namepros.com?

Yes. namepros.com’s robots.txt lets OAI-SearchBot crawl the site. OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.