# AI crawlers are named explicitly, and every one of them is ALLOWED.
#
# The wildcard below already permits them, so this section changes no
# behaviour — it states a decision that was previously only implied, which is
# the whole point of naming them. For a site whose entire purpose is that
# somebody finds a name and buys it, an assistant that can cite a listing is
# doing the job the catalogue exists to do. There is nothing here worth
# withholding from a model: the pages are prices and descriptions of things
# openly for sale.
#
# Split into training and retrieval because the two are different questions,
# even though the answer is currently the same for both. Anyone who later
# wants to keep the listings out of model weights while staying citable can
# flip the first group without touching the second.
#
# Compliance is honour-based. These names bind reputable vendors; an
# unidentified scraper ignores robots.txt entirely, and the challenge in
# front of the offer route is what actually defends against those.

# Training
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

# Retrieval — fetched when someone actually asks about a name
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Allow: /

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