dictionary.com
Domduck has read dictionary.com on 7 days across 5 sources, since 2 August 2026. The domain was registered in 1995. Its robots.txt blocks 3 of the 8 AI crawlers Domduck tracks.
Last checked .
blocked
What changed
7 days of readings- 10 October 2026 (2026-10-10)
- Nameservers changed between 15 September 2026 and 10 October 2026, from ns-1219.awsdns-24.org, ns-1699.awsdns-20.co.uk, ns-470.awsdns-58.com, ns-565.awsdns-06.net to gabe.ns.cloudflare.com, gail.ns.cloudflare.com.
- 31 August 2026 (2026-08-31)
- The certificate was renewed between 17 August 2026 and 31 August 2026 and is valid to 27 November 2026.
Popularity rank
72 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
Redirects to www.dictionary.com · No 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 dictionary.com/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
- 2026-11-27
- Protocol
- TLSv1.3
- Names covered
- 2
- A records
- 2
- AAAA records
- 2
- Mail exchangers
- 2
- Nameservers
- gabe.ns.cloudflare.com, gail.ns.cloudflare.com
- DMARC policy
- reject
- Registered
- 1995-05-14
- Registrar
- 101domain GRS Limited
- Registry status
- client transfer prohibited
How dictionary.com compares to other .com domains
Questions
- Does dictionary.com block GPTBot?
- Yes. dictionary.com's robots.txt disallows GPTBot by name.
- Does dictionary.com publish an llms.txt file?
- No. Domduck found no llms.txt at dictionary.com.
- When was dictionary.com registered?
- 14 May 1995, through 101domain GRS Limited.
- Who issues dictionary.com'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 dictionary.com.