Hello, I wanted to post to ask what the typical response time is to the verified bot application form. My company has built a new product and we believe we meet all the requirements to become a verified bot (scanning over 1,000 pages a day, bot identifies self, bot can be verified via rDNS, etc). We find that the bot often gets blocked by Cloudflare which diminishes its utility (it’s an error scanner and link verification tool, and we often report false-positives errors when we a site links to another domain behind Cloudflare)
Either way, it has been several weeks and we haven’t heard anything back. I searched this forum and found the thread linked below where someone was reporting something similar. I’d really appreciate some clarity on this topic. Thank you.
@Brian_M we just did some testing and it looks like the rDNS lookup works succesfully and we’re no longer getting blocked by Cloudflare. Thank you.
I noticed that we also appear in the Cloudflare Radar (on the final page). Currently the bot name is “Cloudtrellis” but the owner name is blank. Our company name is “Cloudtrellis” as well, so feel free to set that as the owner name.