Top-level domain segment

AI crawler access on .com domains

2,883 of the 14,463 domains measured in this segment refuse a request from an identified AI user agent at the edge, 20% of the segment, against 7% whose robots.txt disallows an answer engine at the site root. The block that costs these sites citations is not the one written in the file. That answer-engine rate is level with the corpus rate of 6%, which is itself measured across 29,265 domains.

Mean AI access score across those 14,463 domains is 73.3 of 100, 2,269 of them publish an llms.txt (16%), and 7,462 publish structured data an answer engine can parse (52%).

14,463
domains measured
73.3
mean AI access score of 14,463
7%
block an answer engine (957 of 14,463)
16%
publish llms.txt (2,269 of 14,463)

Block rate by crawler, inside this segment robots.txt at the site root

CrawlerOperatorContent used forBlock rateBlockingMeasured
GPTBot OpenAI training 11.3% 1,641 14,462
CCBot Common Crawl Foundation archive 11.1% 1,611 14,462
Bytespider ByteDance training 10.9% 1,572 14,462
ClaudeBot Anthropic training 9.9% 1,429 14,462
Google-Extended Google training 9.0% 1,297 14,462
Meta-ExternalAgent Meta training 8.9% 1,291 14,462
Amazonbot Amazon training 8.8% 1,271 14,462
Applebot-Extended Apple training 8.8% 1,268 14,462
omgilibot Webz.io training 4.4% 637 14,462
anthropic-ai Anthropic training 4.4% 633 14,462
Diffbot Diffbot training 4.0% 584 14,462
omgili Webz.io training 4.0% 581 14,462
cohere-ai Cohere live retrieval 3.9% 558 14,462
ChatGPT-User OpenAI live retrieval 3.6% 526 14,462
SemrushBot-OCOB Semrush training 3.6% 516 14,462
FacebookBot Meta training 3.5% 505 14,462
PerplexityBot Perplexity answer index 3.5% 500 14,462
YouBot You.com answer index 2.8% 405 14,462
Timpibot Timpi training 2.8% 405 14,462
ImagesiftBot ImageSift (Hive) training 2.6% 383 14,462
Scrapy Zyte (open-source framework) training 2.4% 352 14,462
AI2Bot Allen Institute for AI training 2.3% 331 14,462
OAI-SearchBot OpenAI answer index 2.1% 305 14,462
cohere-training-data-crawler Cohere training 2.0% 286 14,462
Meta-ExternalFetcher Meta live retrieval 1.6% 231 14,462
DuckAssistBot DuckDuckGo live retrieval 1.6% 228 14,462
Claude-User Anthropic live retrieval 1.6% 228 14,462
Claude-SearchBot Anthropic answer index 1.6% 228 14,462
Perplexity-User Perplexity live retrieval 1.5% 223 14,462
MistralAI-User Mistral AI live retrieval 1.5% 218 14,462
Kangaroo Bot Kangaroo LLM training 1.5% 217 14,462
PanguBot Huawei training 1.5% 214 14,462
Meta-WebIndexer Meta answer index 1.3% 183 14,462
Applebot Apple answer index 1.3% 183 14,462
Google-CloudVertexBot Google live retrieval 1.1% 160 14,462
GoogleOther Google training 1.1% 153 14,462
Amzn-SearchBot Amazon answer index 1.0% 141 14,462
TikTokSpider ByteDance live retrieval 0.8% 116 14,462
Amzn-User Amazon live retrieval 0.6% 84 14,462
MistralAI-Index Mistral AI answer index 0.3% 46 14,462
MistralAI-Training Mistral AI training 0.3% 40 14,462
facebookexternalhit Meta live retrieval 0.2% 24 14,462
Googlebot-News Google answer index 0.1% 17 14,462
Bingbot Microsoft answer index 0.1% 17 14,462
msnbot Microsoft answer index 0.0% 6 14,462
Meta-ExternalAds Meta training 0.0% 6 14,462
Googlebot Google answer index 0.0% 5 14,462
OAI-AdsBot OpenAI live retrieval 0.0% 1 14,462

Block rate is the share of this segment's domains holding a policy record for that agent whose robots.txt disallows it at the site root, shown with its numerator and denominator. Denominators differ between agents because a record only exists once a domain has been measured for it. A domain serving no robots.txt counts as allowing everything, which is what the standard specifies.

Most accessible

DomainScoreEngines blockedllms.txt
1 dataimpulse.com 99 0 yes
2 alastyr.com 99 0 yes
3 azdigi.com 99 0 yes
4 testmuai.com 99 0 yes
5 lambdatest.com 99 0 yes
6 whogohost.com 99 0 yes
7 found.com 99 0 yes
8 tynker.com 99 0 yes
9 textexpander.com 99 0 yes
10 dataremote.com 99 0 yes
11 rackcorp.com 99 0 yes
12 cumulocity.com 99 0 yes
13 scope3.com 99 0 yes
14 blockifyapp.com 99 0 yes
15 renweb.com 99 0 yes

Highest AI access scores among the 14,463 domains measured in this segment.

Least accessible

DomainScoreEngines blockedllms.txt
1 themegrill.com 26 0 no
2 dynamicyield.com 26 0 no
3 mobilityware.com 26 0 no
4 youradchoices.com 26 0 no
5 foxaholic.com 27 0 no
6 ftdichip.com 27 0 no
7 radiotwoway.com 27 0 no
8 wurflcloud.com 28 0 no
9 dialmyapp.com 28 0 no
10 siteground.com 28 0 no
11 amnt-16d09m20y.com 28 0 no
12 moonfruit.com 28 0 no
13 workwelltech.com 28 0 no
14 wavevms.com 28 0 no
15 clickdimensions.com 28 0 no

Lowest AI access scores among the same 14,463 domains.

Compare with the rest of the grouping top-level domain segments

The largest 12 other segments in this grouping, ordered by size. The share beside each is that segment's own answer-engine block rate over its own count. Full table on the segments index.

What this segment does not tell you read this before citing it

A top-level domain is a weak proxy for jurisdiction. Most of them are open to any registrant anywhere, so a domain under a country-code registry may be operated from outside that country by a company no local law reaches. Read these rows as differences between registration communities and the publishing cultures inside them, not as differences between legal regimes.

Measure your own domain

The audit that produced every number on this page runs on any domain in about six seconds: robots.txt resolved for 48 agents, then live requests sent as four of them to see whether the edge agrees with the file.