Cloudflare Teams With GoDaddy To Control AI Crawlers
Cloudflare and GoDaddy announced on April 7, 2026 a partnership to integrate Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control into GoDaddy hosting, letting site owners allow, block, or charge AI crawlers. The deal backs identity and permission standards such as Agent Name Service and Web Bot Auth, and leverages Cloudflare's reach (about 20% of the web) and GoDaddy's registrar scale. The move aims to restore publisher control and revenue in an AI-driven web.
Scoring Rationale
Major partnership between two large web infrastructure firms could reshape publisher economics and bot behavior. Scored high for scope, actionability, and credibility; slightly reduced for limited technical detail in the report.
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- Read OriginalCloudflare and GoDaddy team up to help websites fend off Big Tech's AI bot swarmbusinessinsider.com
