thehindu.com
Domduck has read thehindu.com on 6 days across 5 sources, since 2 August 2026. The domain was registered in 1996. Its robots.txt blocks 6 of the 8 AI crawlers Domduck tracks.
Last checked .
Charts appear once there are seven days of readings.
blocked
What changed
6 days of readings- 29 September 2026 (2026-09-29)
- The certificate moved from Google Trust Services to Let's Encrypt between 15 September 2026 and 29 September 2026.
- The certificate was renewed between 15 September 2026 and 29 September 2026 and is valid to 25 December 2026.
- 15 September 2026 (2026-09-15)
- robots.txt started returning HTTP 304 between 31 August 2026 and 15 September 2026, from 200.
- The certificate was renewed between 31 August 2026 and 15 September 2026 and is valid to 30 November 2026.
- 31 August 2026 (2026-08-31)
- robots.txt started returning HTTP 200 between 17 August 2026 and 31 August 2026, from 304.
- The certificate was renewed between 17 August 2026 and 31 August 2026 and is valid to 16 November 2026.
- 17 August 2026 (2026-08-17)
- The certificate moved from Let's Encrypt to Google Trust Services between 3 August 2026 and 17 August 2026.
- 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 5 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
Redirects to www.thehindu.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 thehindu.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
- Let's Encrypt
- Valid
- Yes
- Expires
- 2026-12-25
- Protocol
- TLSv1.3
- Names covered
- 2
- A records
- 2
- AAAA records
- 2
- Mail exchangers
- 1
- Nameservers
- damon.ns.cloudflare.com, serena.ns.cloudflare.com
- DMARC policy
- none published
- Registered
- 1996-03-01
- Registrar
- eNom, LLC
- Registry status
- active
How thehindu.com compares to other .com domains
Questions
- Does thehindu.com block GPTBot?
- Yes. thehindu.com's robots.txt disallows GPTBot by name.
- Does thehindu.com publish an llms.txt file?
- No. Domduck found no llms.txt at thehindu.com.
- When was thehindu.com registered?
- 1 March 1996, through eNom, LLC.
- Who issues thehindu.com'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.
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 thehindu.com.