slashdot.org

Domduck has read slashdot.org on 6 days across 5 sources, since 2 August 2026. The domain was registered in 1997. Its robots.txt blocks none of the 8 AI crawlers Domduck tracks.

Last checked .

Charts appear once there are seven days of readings.

AI crawler policyslashdot.org
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#2,583Tranco
Age28yGoDaddy.com, LLC
Certificate42dLet's Encrypt
AI crawlers0/8none blocked
Record6dsince 2026-08-02

What changed

6 days of readings
  1. 29 September 2026 (2026-09-29)
    • robots.txt started returning HTTP 200 between 15 September 2026 and 29 September 2026, from 304.
  2. 15 September 2026 (2026-09-15)
    • robots.txt started returning HTTP 304 between 31 August 2026 and 15 September 2026, from 200.
  3. 17 August 2026 (2026-08-17)
    • robots.txt started returning HTTP 200 between 3 August 2026 and 17 August 2026, from 304.
    • The certificate was renewed between 3 August 2026 and 17 August 2026 and is valid to 10 November 2026.

Popularity rank

72 days, lower is better
slashdot.org popularity rank#2,583 today
2026-08-022,583 – 2,5832026-10-12
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

Serves 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 slashdot.org/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
Certificate42d left
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Valid
Yes
Expires
2026-11-10
Protocol
TLSv1.3
Names covered
3
DNS
A records
2
AAAA records
0
Mail exchangers
1
Nameservers
ns11.constellix.com, ns21.constellix.com, ns31.constellix.com, ns41.constellix.net, ns51.constellix.net, ns61.constellix.net
DMARC policy
reject
Registration28 years old
Registered
1997-10-05
Registrar
GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registry status
client delete prohibited, client renew prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited

How slashdot.org compares to other .org domains

This domainslashdot.org
0of 8 crawlers blocked
Median .org540 domains
0of 8 crawlers blocked

Questions

Does slashdot.org block GPTBot?
No. slashdot.org's robots.txt does not disallow GPTBot, though it does not name the agent either.
Does slashdot.org publish an llms.txt file?
Yes. slashdot.org serves an llms.txt file.
When was slashdot.org registered?
5 October 1997, through GoDaddy.com, LLC.
Who issues slashdot.org's certificate?
Let's Encrypt.

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, 6 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 slashdot.org.