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Cloudflare Digicert DCV

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Cloudflare Digicert DCV service. Operated by Cloudflare.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

SEO

What is Cloudflare Digicert DCV?

Cloudflare Digicert DCV is a web crawler operated by Cloudflare. Cloudflare Digicert DCV service.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Cloudflare Digicert DCV

Operator

Cloudflare

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

Cloudflare Digicert DCV crawls websites to analyze search engine optimization factors and backlinks. It is operated by Cloudflare as part of their SEO analysis infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Cloudflare Digicert DCV

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Digicert DCV in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Cloudflare Digicert DCV from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Digicert DCV
Disallow: /

# Allow Cloudflare Digicert DCV full access
User-agent: Digicert DCV
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Digicert DCV. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Cloudflare's documentation.