DNS-Digger
DNS Digger domain exploration tool
About this crawler
DNS-Digger is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern DNS-Digger in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block DNS-Digger traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- DNS-Digger
- Pattern
DNS-Digger- Tags
- scanner
- Reference
- http://www.dnsdigger.com
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DNS-Digger-Explorer/1.0; +http://www.dnsdigger.com)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DNS-Digger/1.0; +http://www.dnsdigger.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow DNS-Digger:
User-agent: DNS-Digger
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} DNS-Digger [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "DNS-Digger") {
return 403;
}
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