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VerifyInboxBot

The crawler that reads publicly published business contact details. If you found this page in your server logs, this is what we were doing and how to stop us.

What it collects

Business email addresses published on a company's own website, together with the name and job title shown alongside them where the site provides those. Every record keeps the URL it came from and the dates it was first and last seen.

It does not collect personal addresses at free providers, it does not attempt to access anything behind a login, and it does not submit forms.

How it behaves

  • robots.txt is respected, per RFC 9309. A robots.txt we cannot read is treated as "do not crawl", not as permission.
  • Crawl-delay is honoured, up to 30 seconds.
  • One request at a time per host, with at least a second between them, shared across all our infrastructure.
  • The crawl is shallow. Contact data lives on a handful of pages — we read those rather than walking the whole site.
  • The user agent identifies us and links back to this page.

Blocking the crawler

Add this to your robots.txt:

User-agent: VerifyInboxBot
Disallow: /

It takes effect on our next visit. Blocking the crawler stops future collection; it does not remove what has already been indexed — use the erasure route below for that.

Removing an address

A data request erases a matching record immediately and keeps the address out of every future crawl. That second part is the one usually missing elsewhere: without it, the record reappears the next time the source page is read and the same request has to be filed again.

You can remove a single address or an entire domain. No account is needed, and we do not ask you to prove ownership before erasing — a removal request is honoured first and the burden of being wrong is ours, not yours.

Contact

For anything this page does not cover, including a request to stop crawling a site entirely, use the data request form.