merriam-webster.com

Domduck has read merriam-webster.com on 7 days across 5 sources, since 2 August 2026. The domain was registered in 1999. Its robots.txt blocks none of the 8 AI crawlers Domduck tracks.

Last checked .

AI crawler policymerriam-webster.com
0/8AI crawlers
blocked
Blocked 0.0%Allowed by name 0.0%Not named 100.0%
Read from this domain’s own robots.txt, parsed to RFC 9309.
Popularity rank#972Tranco
Age27yCSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
Certificate92dAmazon
AI crawlers0/8none blocked
Record7dsince 2026-08-02

What changed

7 days of readings

Nothing has changed since the first reading on 2 August 2026.

Popularity rank

72 days, lower is better
merriam-webster.com popularity rank#972 today
2026-08-02972 – 9722026-10-12
The axis is flipped, so a rise on this chart is a rise in the list.

Position 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.merriam-webster.com · No llms.txt
Blocked 0.0%Allowed by name 0.0%Not named 100.0%
GPTBotOpenAI
Not named

No ChatGPT browsing or training

OAI-SearchBotOpenAI
Not named

No ChatGPT search surface

ClaudeBotAnthropic
Not named

No Claude retrieval

PerplexityBotPerplexity
Not named

No Perplexity citation

Google-ExtendedGoogle
Not named

Out of Gemini and AI Overviews grounding, Search ranking unaffected

Applebot-ExtendedApple
Not named

Out of Apple Intelligence training

CCBotCommon Crawl
Not named

Out of most open training corpora

BytespiderByteDance
Not named

Out of TikTok and Doubao

Read from merriam-webster.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
Certificate92d left
Issuer
Amazon
Valid
Yes
Expires
2026-12-30
Protocol
TLSv1.3
Names covered
9
DNS
A records
4
AAAA records
8
Mail exchangers
1
Nameservers
ns-1084.awsdns-07.org, ns-1998.awsdns-57.co.uk, ns-323.awsdns-40.com, ns-636.awsdns-15.net
DMARC policy
reject
Registration27 years old
Registered
1999-02-08
Registrar
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
Registry status
client transfer prohibited

How merriam-webster.com compares to other .com domains

This domainmerriam-webster.com
0of 8 crawlers blocked
Median .com5,228 domains
0of 8 crawlers blocked

Questions

Does merriam-webster.com block GPTBot?
No. merriam-webster.com's robots.txt does not disallow GPTBot, though it does not name the agent either.
Does merriam-webster.com publish an llms.txt file?
No. Domduck found no llms.txt at merriam-webster.com.
When was merriam-webster.com registered?
8 February 1999, through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc..
Who issues merriam-webster.com's certificate?
Amazon.

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.

What the collectors have read · Request removal

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 merriam-webster.com.