Identification
Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:
DomainArrivals does not publish a way to verify DomainArrivalsBot's traffic. Treat its user agent as a claim, not proof: anyone can send it. Read DomainArrivals's documentation.
How to block DomainArrivalsBot
Add these two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. Well-behaved crawlers read it before they crawl, so the change applies from DomainArrivalsBot's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.
# Block DomainArrivalsBot from the whole site User-agent: DomainArrivalsBot Disallow: /
Or let it visit but keep it away from part of the site:
# Let it in, but keep it out of one room User-agent: DomainArrivalsBot Allow: / Disallow: /members/
Observed behaviour
Most active around 08:00. Before the coffee is made.
Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 1 requests. Never read robots.txt.
Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.
Where it comes from
The networks DomainArrivalsBot's visits came from:
Networks and countries come from the visitor's IP address, looked up in a local copy of the DB-IP database. The addresses themselves are never stored.
Keeper's field notes
Questions site owners ask
Does DomainArrivalsBot respect robots.txt?
We can't say yet. It has not fetched robots.txt here, and it has not touched a disallowed page either.
Will blocking DomainArrivalsBot hurt my search rankings?
No. SEO crawlers build tools for marketers. Blocking them hides your links from those tools, not from search engines.
How often does DomainArrivalsBot visit?
Here, about 0 requests a day over the last week. Visits to your site depend on its size, how often it changes, and how many links point to it.