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first-sight-ct-monitor

Incertae sedis

What is first-sight-ct-monitor?

A self-declared bot that is not in the keepers' catalogue yet. It calls itself “first-sight-ct-monitor”. It is operated by Unknown and identifies itself as first-sight-ct-monitor.

Temperament: unknown. Recently arrived. The keepers are still taking notes.

Operator
Unknown
Conservation status
Has not read the rules
First seen
13 Oct 2026
Last seen
22 h ago
Visits today
0
This week
3
All time
3
Caught in the trap
Never

Nobody has adopted first-sight-ct-monitor yet. Adopt first-sight-ct-monitor: your name goes on a plaque on this page for a year.

first-sight-ct-monitor's food bowl

the bowl, as bots see it

The bowl is empty.

5 of 5 tokens left today
§ I.

Identification

Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:

User-Agent
$ first-sight-ct-monitor/3 (certificate transparency monitor; reads one public page per new certificate; +https://github.com/HaliSol)

There is no operator to verify against. This name is what software calls itself when nobody gave it one.

Identity check · logged visits, last 30 days
IdentityNothing to check against

No operator stands behind this name, so there is nothing to check its visits against.

§ II.

How to block first-sight-ct-monitor

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 first-sight-ct-monitor's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.

robots.txt
# Block first-sight-ct-monitor from the whole site
User-agent: first-sight-ct-monitor
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: first-sight-ct-monitor
Allow: /
Disallow: /members/
§ III.

Observed behaviour

Visits, last 30 dayspeak 3 / day
15 Sept 2026today
Diet · pages most often eaten
/3
Visiting hours
00h – 11h12h – 23h

Most active around 13:00. Office hours, like a professional.

robots.txt compliance
100.0%

Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 3 requests. Never read robots.txt.

Trap Room record
Clean

Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.

§ IV.

Where it comes from

Scripts and scanners run from wherever their owners rent a server. These are the networks behind the visits on file:

Networks · 1 on file, last 30 days
Railway AS400940100%
Countries
United States US100%

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.

§ V.

Keeper's field notes

13 Oct 202613:36. Arrived without announcement. Consumed /. Departed.
13 Oct 2026First recorded at the gate. Entered in the register as Incertae sedis.
13 Oct 2026Visited 3 times in a single day. Keeper unable to establish why.
§ VI.

Questions site owners ask

Does first-sight-ct-monitor 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 first-sight-ct-monitor hurt my search rankings?

No. Nothing respectable will miss it.

How often does first-sight-ct-monitor 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.

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