Agent directory / Bingbot
Bingbot
Observed live across sites Botfall meters — measured, not copied from docs
Last seen36 minutes ago
First seen60 days ago
Fetches · 24h7
Fetches · 30d232
Sites seen on3
Identity verified 82%
108 requests claimed this identity from addresses outside Microsoft's published ranges — impersonation, not this agent.
Networks observed EUGameHost-LTD EUGAMEHOST LTD · HETZNER-AS Hetzner Online GmbH · HOSTODO - Hostodo · INFRALY-LLC - Infraly, LLC · MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation · NextGenWebs-NL NextGenWebs, S.L.
| Operator | Microsoft |
| Purpose | Search indexing |
| Identifies as | User-agent substring: bingbot |
| Notes | Also feeds Copilot answers. |
What the operator publishes
Their documentation, not our measurements — re-checked automatically every day.
| Verify identity by | Published IP ranges + reverse DNS — a user-agent alone proves nothing; anyone can send this string. |
| Published IP ranges | https://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingbot.json — 28 prefixes listed link checked 2026-09-30 |
| Reverse-DNS suffix | search.msn.com |
| robots.txt stance | Operator documents that it honors robots.txt |
| Operator documentation | https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0 link checked 2026-09-30 |
Provenance
What establishes this record, and when it was last checked — no speculative entries.
- Observed in live storefront telemetry (classifier lineage)checked 2026-07-30
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