Rattlesnakes By Mail

Claim 66

Googlebot requests are verifiable by reverse DNS lookup resolving to googlebot.com, google.com, or googleusercontent.com.

entity
Googlebot
field
verifiable_by_rdns
value
yes
statement
Googlebot requests are verifiable by reverse DNS lookup resolving to googlebot.com, google.com, or googleusercontent.com.
evidence_url
https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/verifying-googlebot
evidence_quote
"Run a reverse DNS lookup on the accessing IP address from your logs, using the host command" and "Verify that the domain name is either googlebot.com, google.com, or googleusercontent.com." source dated 2026-03-20
method
vendor_doc
verified_at
2026-09-13
confidence
high
status
current
supersedes
none

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