# /robots.txt file for /www.zoominfo.com

# /business sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.zoominfo.com/cws/general-sitemap.xml

# General Disallow Rules
User-agent: *
Disallow: /blog/api
Disallow: /verifyRegister
Disallow: /verifyRegisterConfirm
Disallow: /clearRegister
Disallow: /resendVerification
Disallow: /accountWelcome
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /myAccount
Disallow: /needVerify
Disallow: /myaccount
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /profileReferences
Disallow: /claim
Disallow: /update/edit-person-profile
Disallow: /update/create-person-profile
Disallow: /update/remove-person-profile
Disallow: /update/edit-company-profile
Disallow: /update/create-company-profile
Disallow: /update/remove/verification-failure
Disallow: /update/request-access
Disallow: /update/company
Disallow: /blank
Disallow: /ie6
Disallow: /siteStatus
Disallow: /appExpired
Disallow: /appSuspended
Disallow: /notAuthorized
Disallow: /logout
Disallow: /resetPassword
Disallow: /changePassword
Disallow: /securityCode
Disallow: /common
Disallow: /CachedPageLoading
Disallow: /embeddedcontent
Disallow: /business/administrator
Disallow: /usercenter
Disallow: /blog/tag/
Disallow: /CachedPageHeader
Disallow: /search/company
Disallow: /s/css
Disallow: /s/common/css
Disallow: /anura
Disallow: /api
Disallow: /people_directory
Disallow: /directories-api
Disallow: /newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-*
Disallow: /newsroom/press-releases/*/feed
Disallow: /about/m/newsletters/*
Disallow: /c/company-name
Disallow: /pic/company-name
Disallow: /directories/transition
Disallow: /pixel
Disallow: /workers/data-layer.worker
Disallow: /about/search-cs
Allow: /c/undefined

# Bing Disallow Rules
User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /about/*query=*

# AI Bots Group - unified disallow rules
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Apple-Extended
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Omgili
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: Operator
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /p
Disallow: /c
Disallow: /pic
Disallow: /s/search
Disallow: /people-search
Disallow: /companies-search
Disallow: /people
Disallow: /people_directory
Disallow: /tech
Disallow: /sales-leads
Disallow: /lead-generation-tools
Disallow: /zoominfo-chrome-ext

# Full block bots
User-agent: Yandex
User-agent: dotbot
User-agent: rogerbot
User-agent: moget
User-agent: ichiro
User-agent: NaverBot
User-agent: Yeti
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider-video
User-agent: Baiduspider-image
User-agent: sogou spider
User-agent: YoudaoBot
User-agent: MJ12bot
User-agent: DJEcoBot
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
User-agent: AwarioRssBot
User-agent: LinkedInBot
User-agent: FreshpingBot
User-agent: Pingdombot
User-agent: coccocbot-web
User-agent: coccocbot-image
User-agent: sethbot
User-agent: UptimeRobot
User-agent: Mail.RU_Bot
User-agent: heritrix
Disallow: /

# Zoominfo bots
User-agent: NextGenSearchBot
User-agent: ZoomBot
User-agent: ZoominfoBot
Disallow: /p
Disallow: /c
Disallow: /pic
Disallow: /top-lists
Disallow: /s/search
Disallow: /people-search
Disallow: /companies-search
Disallow: /people
Disallow: /people_directory
Disallow: /financial
Disallow: /tech
Disallow: /sales-leads
Disallow: /lead-generation-tools
Disallow: /zoominfo-chrome-ext

# Bots with Crawl-delay
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Crawl-delay: 1