What powers 
io9.com?
Last seen Aug 2020 · 7 technologies across 6 categories
Analytics
Google Analytics
since Jul 2020
CDN
Cloudflare
since Jul 2020
Ecommerce
Cart Functionality
since Aug 2020
Shopify
since Jul 2020
JavaScript libraries
Payment processors
Apple Pay
since Aug 2020
Tag managers
Google Tag Manager
since Jul 2020
AI Crawlers
Blocks 9 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Nov 2026.
Training crawlers
- AI2Bot Blocked
- Bytespider Blocked
- CCBot Blocked
- cohere-training-data-crawler Blocked
- Diffbot Blocked
- ImagesiftBot Blocked
- meta-externalagent Blocked
- PanguBot Blocked
- Webzio-Extended Blocked
The other 24 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and only inherit the catch-all rules that apply to every crawler.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
AI Crawlers
9 of 33 AI crawlers blocked
Open Page Rank
8.19 / 10 · ranked #5,246 of all domains
4,157 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Infrastructure
- Registered Dec 1999 (26 years) via OVH sas, renews Dec 2026
- Hosted on Cloudflare (104.21.32.57, IPv6)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: Cloudflare Email Routing
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC monitor only, DNSSEC signed
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Dec 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 11,402, 24 hosts
DNS records as swept Nov 2026, certificate as seen Nov 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted