Overview
Area 360 is a search crawler from Area360 used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is A360-Search; a representative HTTP user-agent is A360-Search/1.0.
Area 360 is Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
Area 360 can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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A360-Search - HTTP Agent Examples
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A360-Search/1.0 - Robots Token
- A360-Search
- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `A360-Search` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- Search
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Area360
- Purpose
- Indexing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Area 360 is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Detection Notes
- Area 360 traffic is primarily detected by the `A360-Search` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `A360-Search/1.0`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Area360 infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- Area 360 has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Do not block
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.
Relationships
- Operator
- Area360 Checked 2026-08-07
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.