boingboing.net
Domduck has read boingboing.net on 7 days across 5 sources, since 2 August 2026. The domain was registered in 1998. Its robots.txt blocks none of the 8 AI crawlers Domduck tracks.
Last checked .
blocked
What changed
7 days of readings- 13 October 2026 (2026-10-13)
- The certificate was renewed between 29 September 2026 and 13 October 2026 and is valid to 10 January 2027.
- 17 August 2026 (2026-08-17)
- robots.txt started returning HTTP 304 between 3 August 2026 and 17 August 2026, from 200.
- The certificate was renewed between 3 August 2026 and 17 August 2026 and is valid to 11 November 2026.
Popularity rank
73 days, lower is betterPosition in the Tranco list, a research ranking of the million most popular domains averaged over thirty days so a single day’s traffic spike cannot move it.
AI crawler policy
Serves llms.txtNo ChatGPT browsing or training
No ChatGPT search surface
No Claude retrieval
No Perplexity citation
Out of Gemini and AI Overviews grounding, Search ranking unaffected
Out of Apple Intelligence training
Out of most open training corpora
Out of TikTok and Doubao
Read from boingboing.net/robots.txt. “Not named” means the file says nothing about that agent, which is not the same as allowing it: a catch-all rule added later blocks it without anyone deciding to.
What the domain itself says
read directly, not from a vendor- Issuer
- Google Trust Services
- Valid
- Yes
- Expires
- 2027-01-10
- Protocol
- TLSv1.3
- Names covered
- 2
- A records
- 2
- AAAA records
- 2
- Mail exchangers
- 5
- Nameservers
- lola.ns.cloudflare.com, ryan.ns.cloudflare.com
- DMARC policy
- quarantine
- Registered
- 1998-05-06
- Registrar
- Squarespace Domains II LLC
- Registry status
- client delete prohibited, client transfer prohibited
How boingboing.net compares to other .net domains
Questions
- Does boingboing.net block GPTBot?
- No. boingboing.net's robots.txt does not disallow GPTBot, though it does not name the agent either.
- Does boingboing.net publish an llms.txt file?
- Yes. boingboing.net serves an llms.txt file.
- When was boingboing.net registered?
- 6 May 1998, through Squarespace Domains II LLC.
- Who issues boingboing.net's certificate?
- Google Trust Services.
How this page is made
Every number on this page is a measurement Domduck took itself or read from a public source, on a stated date. Nothing here is written by a language model. Where a value has not changed, no sentence is generated about it.
First reading . 5 sources, 7 days with at least one reading. The popularity rank comes from the Tranco list; the registration record from RDAP, which ICANN requires registries to publish. The certificate, the DNS records and the crawler policy are read by Domduck directly from boingboing.net.