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DotBot

Listed only

Moz'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.