ZumBot

Safe Block: Depends Verified robots.txt: No

ZumBot is a web crawler that indexes webpages for Zum Open Internet Search.

Key facts

Operator
Zum Internet Corp
Purpose
Search
User-Agent
ZumBot
Should you block it?
Depends
Verified
Yes
Respects robots.txt
No
Identity type
Official Documented
Confidence
High
Last verified
2026-04-01

Bot details

Identity

User-Agent
ZumBot
robots.txt token
ZumBot
HTTP user-agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ZumBot/1.0; http://help.zum.com/inquiry)

Ownership

Operator
Zum Internet Corp
Type
Search
Purpose
Search

Verification and trust

Source type
Official
Confidence
High
Last verified
2026-04-01
Verification
Listed by Cloudflare Radar as a verified bot; match the published robots.txt token and user-agent pattern. Cross-check the operator documentation linked in the source field when available.

Blocking and detection

Robots

User-agent: ZumBot
Disallow: /

Cloudflare

(http.user_agent contains "ZumBot")
Advanced server rules

Apache

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ZumBot [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]

Nginx

if ($http_user_agent ~* "ZumBot") { return 403; }

Notes

ZumBot is a verified bot listed by Cloudflare Radar. Category: Search Engine Crawler. Operator: Zum Internet Corp. ZumBot is a web crawler that indexes webpages for Zum Open Internet Search. Cloudflare Radar page: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/directory/zumbot

Evidence and source

  • Listed by Cloudflare Radar as a verified bot; match the published robots.txt token and user-agent pattern. Cross-check the operator documentation linked in the source field when available.