Top-level domain segment

AI crawler access on .org domains

421 of the 1,683 domains measured in this segment refuse a request from an identified AI user agent at the edge, 25% of the segment, against 5% 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 1.4 points below the corpus rate of 6%, which is itself measured across 30,345 domains.

Mean AI access score across those 1,683 domains is 71.5 of 100, 142 of them publish an llms.txt (8%), and 631 publish structured data an answer engine can parse (37%).

1,683
domains measured
71.5
mean AI access score of 1,683
5%
block an answer engine (84 of 1,683)
8%
publish llms.txt (142 of 1,683)

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

CrawlerOperatorContent used forBlock rateBlockingMeasured
GPTBot OpenAI training 12.7% 213 1,682
CCBot Common Crawl Foundation archive 11.5% 194 1,682
Bytespider ByteDance training 11.4% 192 1,682
Google-Extended Google training 10.4% 175 1,682
ClaudeBot Anthropic training 10.4% 175 1,682
Amazonbot Amazon training 10.3% 173 1,682
Applebot-Extended Apple training 9.8% 164 1,682
Meta-ExternalAgent Meta training 9.6% 161 1,682
SemrushBot-OCOB Semrush training 3.8% 64 1,682
anthropic-ai Anthropic training 3.0% 50 1,682
ChatGPT-User OpenAI live retrieval 2.8% 47 1,682
PerplexityBot Perplexity answer index 2.6% 44 1,682
omgilibot Webz.io training 2.6% 43 1,682
omgili Webz.io training 2.4% 41 1,682
FacebookBot Meta training 2.4% 41 1,682
cohere-ai Cohere live retrieval 2.4% 40 1,682
Diffbot Diffbot training 2.2% 37 1,682
ImagesiftBot ImageSift (Hive) training 2.0% 33 1,682
YouBot You.com answer index 1.7% 28 1,682
Scrapy Zyte (open-source framework) training 1.5% 25 1,682
Applebot Apple answer index 1.3% 22 1,682
OAI-SearchBot OpenAI answer index 1.1% 19 1,682
GoogleOther Google training 1.1% 19 1,682
Timpibot Timpi training 1.0% 17 1,682
AI2Bot Allen Institute for AI training 0.9% 15 1,682
cohere-training-data-crawler Cohere training 0.8% 14 1,682
PanguBot Huawei training 0.8% 13 1,682
TikTokSpider ByteDance live retrieval 0.7% 12 1,682
Meta-ExternalFetcher Meta live retrieval 0.7% 12 1,682
Kangaroo Bot Kangaroo LLM training 0.7% 11 1,682
DuckAssistBot DuckDuckGo live retrieval 0.6% 10 1,682
Claude-User Anthropic live retrieval 0.6% 10 1,682
Claude-SearchBot Anthropic answer index 0.6% 10 1,682
Perplexity-User Perplexity live retrieval 0.5% 9 1,682
Google-CloudVertexBot Google live retrieval 0.5% 8 1,682
MistralAI-User Mistral AI live retrieval 0.4% 7 1,682
facebookexternalhit Meta live retrieval 0.4% 7 1,682
Meta-WebIndexer Meta answer index 0.3% 5 1,682
msnbot Microsoft answer index 0.2% 4 1,682
Bingbot Microsoft answer index 0.1% 2 1,682
Amzn-User Amazon live retrieval 0.1% 2 1,682
Amzn-SearchBot Amazon answer index 0.1% 2 1,682
MistralAI-Index Mistral AI answer index 0.1% 1 1,682
Meta-ExternalAds Meta training 0.1% 1 1,682
OAI-AdsBot OpenAI live retrieval 0.0% 0 1,682
MistralAI-Training Mistral AI training 0.0% 0 1,682
Googlebot-News Google answer index 0.0% 0 1,682
Googlebot Google answer index 0.0% 0 1,682

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 worldhistory.org 99 0 yes
2 getgrav.org 99 0 yes
3 taxfoundation.org 98 0 yes
4 wri.org 98 0 yes
5 justsecurity.org 97 0 yes
6 ccl.org 97 0 yes
7 wcrf.org 97 0 yes
8 visionofhumanity.org 97 0 yes
9 ethereum.org 97 0 yes
10 candid.org 97 0 yes
11 domestika.org 96 0 yes
12 wes.org 96 0 yes
13 esrb.org 96 0 yes
14 nextjs.org 96 0 yes
15 understood.org 96 0 yes

Highest AI access scores among the 1,683 domains measured in this segment.

Least accessible

DomainScoreEngines blockedllms.txt
1 pcre.org 26 0 no
2 oxfordjournals.org 27 0 no
3 cato.org 27 0 no
4 passportindex.org 27 0 no
5 unv.org 27 0 no
6 transformativeworks.org 28 0 no
7 americanpregnancy.org 28 0 no
8 aisnet.org 28 0 no
9 aifpleasurebeh.org 28 0 no
10 independent.org 28 0 no
11 textileexchange.org 28 0 no
12 poast.org 30 0 no
13 alisweb.org 31 18 no
14 myvolumio.org 32 0 no
15 aappublications.org 32 0 no

Lowest AI access scores among the same 1,683 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.