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Cloudflare Digicert DCV

Name: Cloudflare Digicert DCV
Author: Cloudflare

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

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.