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Internet.nl

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Internet.nl is a test tool for modern interne Operated by Internet Standards Platform.

Operator website ↗

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Assessment

Security

What is Internet.nl?

Internet.nl is a collaborative initiative by the Dutch Internet Standards Platform, involving government and industry stakeholders like SIDN, RIPE NCC, and the NCSC-NL. The bot performs automated technical audits of websites, email servers, and connection configurations to verify the implementation of modern security protocols such as DNSSEC, TLS, and IPv6. By providing transparent, actionable reports, it encourages the adoption of best practices to make the internet more resilient and secure.

Helpful — This bot performs security and configuration audits to help website administrators improve their infrastructure's safety and reliability.

Identification

Bot name

Internet.nl

Operator

Internet Standards Platform

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

Discussion is neutral or practical, such as how to allow or block it

What we read

Why it crawls your site

The bot crawls specific domains at the request of users or as part of periodic platform-wide assessments to generate a 'scorecard' for internet standards. It analyzes the technical headers, DNS records, and encryption configurations of a target site to identify vulnerabilities or outdated protocols. Site owners can verify the operator by visiting the provided URL in the User-Agent string, which details the platform's mission and the participating organizations behind the project.

Block or allow Internet.nl

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for internetnl 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 Internet.nl from crawling your entire site
User-agent: internetnl
Disallow: /

# Allow Internet.nl full access
User-agent: internetnl
Allow: /