theguardian.com

Domduck has read theguardian.com on 6 days across 5 sources, since 2 August 2026. The domain was registered in 1994. Its robots.txt blocks 5 of the 8 AI crawlers Domduck tracks.

Last checked .

Charts appear once there are seven days of readings.

AI crawler policytheguardian.com
5/8AI crawlers
blocked
Blocked 62.5%Allowed by name 0.0%Not named 37.5%
Read from this domain’s own robots.txt, parsed to RFC 9309.
Popularity rank#187Tranco
Age32yGoDaddy.com, LLC
Certificate157dGlobalSign nv-sa
AI crawlers5/8blocked
Record6dsince 2026-08-02

What changed

6 days of readings
  1. 31 August 2026 (2026-08-31)
    • The certificate was renewed between 17 August 2026 and 31 August 2026 and is valid to 5 March 2027.

Popularity rank

72 days, lower is better
theguardian.com popularity rank#187 today
2026-08-02187 – 1872026-10-12
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.theguardian.com · No llms.txt

What the domain itself says

read directly, not from a vendor
Certificate157d left
Issuer
GlobalSign nv-sa
Valid
Yes
Expires
2027-03-05
Protocol
TLSv1.3
Names covered
12
DNS
A records
4
AAAA records
4
Mail exchangers
5
Nameservers
dns1.p04.nsone.net, dns2.p04.nsone.net, dns3.p04.nsone.net, dns4.p04.nsone.net, ns01.theguardiandns.com, ns02.theguardiandns.com, ns03.theguardiandns.com, ns04.theguardiandns.com
DMARC policy
reject
Registration32 years old
Registered
1994-07-06
Registrar
GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registry status
client delete prohibited, client renew prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited

How theguardian.com compares to other .com domains

This domaintheguardian.com
5of 8 crawlers blocked
Median .com5,228 domains
0of 8 crawlers blocked

Questions

Does theguardian.com block GPTBot?
No. theguardian.com's robots.txt does not disallow GPTBot, though it does not name the agent either.
Does theguardian.com publish an llms.txt file?
No. Domduck found no llms.txt at theguardian.com.
When was theguardian.com registered?
6 July 1994, through GoDaddy.com, LLC.
Who issues theguardian.com's certificate?
GlobalSign nv-sa.

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 theguardian.com.