DotBot
Listed onlyMoz's general-purpose web crawler, distinct from rogerbot, that gathers link data powering the Moz Link Index and Link Explorer. Moz's own help pages document no fixed IP range for it.
Operated by Moz · Official documentation
User agents
Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.
- regexDotBot/\d
- observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; DotBot/1.1; http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/dotbot, [email protected])
How to verify
No verification recipe published by the operator.
Good Bot Practices scorecard
- Identifies honestly
Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)
- Verifiable
Operator publishes no verification path
- Respects robots.txt
Honors robots.txt (token: dotbot)
- Behaves
Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset
- Reachable operator
Operator and documentation published
Measured against the Good Bot Practices.