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NICT bots and crawlers
NICT is Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.
NICT bots at a glance
- NICT runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Training Crawlers.
- Each NICT bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.nict.go.jp
Every NICT bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICC-Crawler | AI Training Crawlers | AI trainingReported | Yes | Your choice |
Block or allow all NICT bots
The rules below name every NICT token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all NICT bots
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all NICT bots
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all NICT bots out of private areas only
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all NICT bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(ICC\-Crawler)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all NICT bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (ICC\-Crawler) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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