Publishers
Your domain. Your call.
What DRM3 reads
Feeds
The feeds in our catalog
Our feed reader reads the RSS and Atom feeds in our catalog. Before it reads a site it checks robots.txt, ai.txt and text-and-data-mining headers, and it stops when they say no. A site that keeps turning it away is not retried.
Crawl
Pages we find on our own
Our crawler is DRM3Bot. It names itself on every request and obeys robots.txt: the group for DRM3Bot if there is one, else the group for every crawler.
Asked for
A page a person asks for
When a person gives DRM3 one link and asks us to read it, we read that one page, even where robots.txt disallows crawling. Google's user-triggered fetchers do the same. We do not follow links from it or crawl the site. Every such read records who asked and when.
An opt-out below stops all three on your domain and its subdomains, a page a person asks for included. An opt-in clears an earlier opt-out; reads then follow robots.txt as above.
Opt out or in
First prove the domain is yours. Add a DNS TXT record, or put a small text file on your site. We read the proof from your domain, then record your choice with the time and the method.
Opt out stops every DRM3 read of the domain and its subdomains, a page a person asks for included. Opt in clears an earlier opt-out. Your choice is on record the moment the proof checks out, and every DRM3 reader follows it within 7 business days. The list of opted-out domains is public, so anyone can check it.
You can keep the proof in place or remove it after. To change your choice later, put the proof back and choose again. No DNS access? Write to support@drm3.io from an address at the domain.
Other requests
Submit your feed
Want your feed in our catalog? We review every submission. Accepted feeds are read over RSS, and every article carries a signed receipt that links back to your page. We reply within 7 business days.
Stop DomainDrift scanning my domain
DomainDrift reads public DNS records, TLS certificates, WHOIS data and robots.txt for the domains in its catalog. Ask to be removed here. After we confirm you own the domain, it is switched off and the catalog will not take it back.
Add my domain to DomainDrift
Want signed telemetry for your own domain? Ask us to track it. Every observation is signed and kept, and anyone can check it in the open verifier.
The sources we do not read, and why, are on Who we don't read. Our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy cover data practices and publisher rights.