Dotcom-Monitor
Doctom website monitoring
About this crawler
Dotcom-Monitor is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Dotcom-Monitor in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Dotcom-Monitor traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- Dotcom-Monitor
- Pattern
Dotcom-Monitor- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://knownagents.com/agents/doctom-monitor
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36 (Dotcom-Monitor)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Dotcom-Monitor:
User-agent: Dotcom-Monitor
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Dotcom-Monitor [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Dotcom-Monitor") {
return 403;
}
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