What powers lycos.com?
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Doesn't name any of the 33 AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt. Catch-all rules (User-agent: *) restrict some paths for every crawler, AI or not. Checked Oct 2026. A recent check saw a policy file missing; awaiting confirmation.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
- Sep 2026 Content Signals changed
- Sep 2026 *: Restricted (was Allowed)
- Sep 2026 amazonbot removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 gptbot removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 applebot-extended removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 google-extended removed from robots.txt
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| lycos company | #1 | 3,000 |
| lycos | #1 | 3,000 |
| lycos mail login | #2 | 110 |
| lycos.com email | #2 | 78 |
| lycos search | #1 | 33 |
| lycos web | #1 | 27 |
| lycos domain name | #3 | 25 |
| domain lycos | #3 | 25 |
| laycos | #2 | 23 |
| what is lycos | #1 | 21 |
| dogpile search engine | #92 | 19 |
| lycos logo | #1 | 15 |
| lycos tripod | #4 | 13 |
| carnegie mellon directory | #67 | 11 |
| mail lycos sign in | #3 | 11 |
| lycos domains | #5 | 9 |
| duckduckgo.com search engine | #84 | 8 |
| fr chat lycos | #2 | 8 |
| simpatico english | #67 | 7 |
| deutschland lyrics | #79 | 6 |
| hercules gif | #50 | 5 |
| define woof | #85 | 5 |
| yellow pages online | #55 | 3 |
| liekos | #4 | 3 |
| lycos wikipedia | #3 | 3 |
The site's top keywords in Google (US), with the visits each one is estimated to bring per month.
Top backlinks
Top links pointing at the site, one per source domain, strongest first. The anchor text opens the page carrying the link.
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Audience
- 100% desktop
United States
Germany
France
Italy
Spain
Canada
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
8.23 / 10 · ranked #4,792 of all domains
2,795 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
6,600 est. monthly organic visits (US)
319 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 2.3 s |
| INP | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 1600 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- Weight: 2.8 MB · 11 requests
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
Organisation
- Lycos
- Founded: 1994
- Country: United States
From Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered Apr 1995 (31 years) via GoDaddy.com, LLC, renews Apr 2027
- Hosted on Cloudflare (104.21.84.219, IPv6)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: OpenSRS Email
- Email security: SPF (soft fail), DMARC monitor only, CAA
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, ECDSA P256, expires Nov 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 946, 372 hosts
- Verified with: Google
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| helpdesk.lycos.com | 15 |
| helpdesk.mail.lycos.com | 15 |
| info.lycos.com | 14 |
| publish.lycos.com | 12 |
| build.tripod.lycos.com | 9 |
| mail.lycos.com | 9 |
| search1.lycos.com | 9 |
| search11.lycos.com | 9 |
| search12.lycos.com | 9 |
| search13.lycos.com | 9 |
| search14.lycos.com | 9 |
| search15.lycos.com | 9 |
| search16.lycos.com | 9 |
| search17.lycos.com | 9 |
| search18.lycos.com | 9 |
| search19.lycos.com | 9 |
| search20.lycos.com | 9 |
| search3.lycos.com | 9 |
| search37.lycos.com | 9 |
| search4.lycos.com | 9 |
| webmail.lycos.com | 9 |
| www.mail.lycos.com | 9 |
| www.tripod.lycos.com | 9 |
| news.lycos.com | 8 |
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- detected Cloudflare Browser Insights Jun 2026
- detected Google Tag Manager Apr 2026
- detected Caddy Feb 2026
- detected HTTP/3 Feb 2026