About this bot
Google Trust Services (DCV Check) is associated with Google and used for domain-control-validation.
The primary identifying signal is Google-Trust-Services.
Representative request identity: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google-Trust-Services/2.0; http://pki.goog/).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official-documented.
robots.txt is not recorded as a reliable control for this request mode.
Common use: targeted domain-control validation for TLS certificate issuance by Google Trust Services.
Risk classification: Safe. Recommended handling: no.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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Google-Trust-ServicesMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google-Trust-Services/2.0; http://pki.goog/)
Details
- Kind
- Certificate validator
- Family
- Purpose
- Domain control validation
- Common Use
- targeted domain-control validation for TLS certificate issuance by Google Trust Services
- Respects robots.txt
- No
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `Google-Trust-Services` as the documented identity signal and corroborate source network, DNS, signatures, or request context when stronger authentication is required.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `Google-Trust-Services` identity in request logs and corroborate the surrounding request context. A User-Agent string alone can be copied.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt is not a reliable control for this identity. Use server-side access controls if restriction is required.