Top-level domain segment

AI crawler access on .de domains

130 of the 827 domains measured in this segment disallow at least one answer engine at the site root, 16% of the segment. That answer-engine rate is 2.4 times the corpus rate of 7%, which is itself measured across 30,225 domains.

Mean AI access score across those 827 domains is 77.1 of 100, 56 of them publish an llms.txt (7%), and 431 publish structured data an answer engine can parse (52%).

827
domains measured
77.1
mean AI access score of 827
16%
block an answer engine (130 of 827)
7%
publish llms.txt (56 of 827)

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

CrawlerOperatorContent used forBlock rateBlockingMeasured
CCBot Common Crawl Foundation archive 17.7% 146 827
GPTBot OpenAI training 17.5% 145 827
Bytespider ByteDance training 16.2% 134 827
ClaudeBot Anthropic training 15.0% 124 827
Meta-ExternalAgent Meta training 12.9% 107 827
Google-Extended Google training 12.8% 106 827
Applebot-Extended Apple training 12.8% 106 827
Diffbot Diffbot training 12.3% 102 827
omgilibot Webz.io training 11.4% 94 827
omgili Webz.io training 11.0% 91 827
FacebookBot Meta training 10.4% 86 827
anthropic-ai Anthropic training 10.4% 86 827
SemrushBot-OCOB Semrush training 10.0% 83 827
cohere-ai Cohere live retrieval 9.9% 82 827
Amazonbot Amazon training 9.7% 80 827
Timpibot Timpi training 9.3% 77 827
PerplexityBot Perplexity answer index 9.3% 77 827
cohere-training-data-crawler Cohere training 9.1% 75 827
ImagesiftBot ImageSift (Hive) training 8.6% 71 827
PanguBot Huawei training 8.3% 69 827
ChatGPT-User OpenAI live retrieval 8.1% 67 827
YouBot You.com answer index 7.5% 62 827
AI2Bot Allen Institute for AI training 6.9% 57 827
Scrapy Zyte (open-source framework) training 6.8% 56 827
OAI-SearchBot OpenAI answer index 5.0% 41 827
Google-CloudVertexBot Google live retrieval 4.8% 40 827
GoogleOther Google training 4.7% 39 827
Kangaroo Bot Kangaroo LLM training 4.4% 36 827
DuckAssistBot DuckDuckGo live retrieval 4.4% 36 827
Perplexity-User Perplexity live retrieval 4.0% 33 827
Claude-SearchBot Anthropic answer index 4.0% 33 827
MistralAI-User Mistral AI live retrieval 3.9% 32 827
Claude-User Anthropic live retrieval 3.9% 32 827
Meta-WebIndexer Meta answer index 3.5% 29 827
Meta-ExternalFetcher Meta live retrieval 3.3% 27 827
TikTokSpider ByteDance live retrieval 3.1% 26 827
Applebot Apple answer index 1.9% 16 827
Amzn-SearchBot Amazon answer index 1.2% 10 827
MistralAI-Training Mistral AI training 1.1% 9 827
MistralAI-Index Mistral AI answer index 1.0% 8 827
Amzn-User Amazon live retrieval 0.8% 7 827
facebookexternalhit Meta live retrieval 0.4% 3 827
Meta-ExternalAds Meta training 0.2% 2 827
Googlebot-News Google answer index 0.2% 2 827
Bingbot Microsoft answer index 0.2% 2 827
msnbot Microsoft answer index 0.1% 1 827
Googlebot Google answer index 0.1% 1 827
OAI-AdsBot OpenAI live retrieval 0.0% 0 827

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 epoq.de 99 0 yes
2 arvato-systems.de 98 0 yes
3 leasingmarkt.de 97 0 yes
4 hosting.de 97 0 yes
5 ergo.de 97 0 yes
6 qualitymedianetwork.de 97 0 yes
7 superchat.de 96 0 yes
8 markt.de 96 0 yes
9 datenschutz-generator.de 95 0 no
10 tum.de 95 0 yes
11 united-domains.de 95 0 no
12 dg-datenschutz.de 95 0 yes
13 mein-datenschutzbeauftragter.de 95 0 no
14 softgarden.de 95 0 yes
15 vwfs.de 95 0 yes

Highest AI access scores among the 827 domains measured in this segment.

Least accessible

DomainScoreEngines blockedllms.txt
1 apotheken-umschau.de 28 2 no
2 neue-casino-spiele.de 29 0 no
3 thieme-connect.de 39 8 no
4 amazon.de 40 13 no
5 next.de 41 0 no
6 hysky.de 41 0 no
7 hoerzu.de 45 16 no
8 hackmd.okfn.de 45 0 no
9 as-nmt.de 45 0 no
10 gbv.de 45 0 no
11 kundenserver.de 46 0 no
12 dpma.de 47 0 no
13 econbiz.de 48 0 no
14 page-stats.de 49 5 no
15 hosteurope.de 49 0 no

Lowest AI access scores among the same 827 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.