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MEASURED STUDY · 21 SEPTEMBER 2026

AI crawler access:
government and institutions

Public bodies and international organisations. 18 domains measured; 1 block at least one of the 28 tracked AI crawlers.

1of 18 government and institutions block at least one AI crawler · median access 100%

Every domain in this category

Sorted by the share of tracked AI crawlers permitted, lowest first. Each report shows all 28 verdicts and the robots.txt rule behind them.

DomainAccessAllowedBlockedNot listed
who.int96%0127
australia.gov.au100%0028
belastingdienst.nl100%2800
bund.de100%2800
canada.ca100%2800
cdc.gov100%0028
europa.eu100%2800
fda.gov100%2800
gov.uk100%2800
imf.org100%2800
irs.gov100%2800
nih.gov100%2800
oecd.org100%2800
sec.gov100%2800
skatteverket.se100%2800
un.org100%2800
usa.gov100%2800
worldbank.org100%2800

Method and caveats are described on the full study page: one robots.txt fetch per domain, resolved against 28 published AI user-agents, reported as the voluntary policy it is. Check any site yourself with the free crawler access checker.

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