On 2/3/16, 2:05 AM, "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 12:23:42AM +0000, Francisco Arias <francisco.arias@icann.org> wrote
The search page (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:rdg.afilias.info) appears to be the result of crawling links from the first link that appears there (http://rdg.afilias.info/rdap/help). The help page contains links to search and lookup examples that return several objects with their directly-related objects, which are in turn shown in the search results. This could have happened in web-Whois if someone were to publish a page containing example queries.
It seems to me that having a robots.txt at the root of the RDAP server would solve the problem (if you regard it as a problem). Is there anything in the tons of ICANN rules and requirments that prevent us to install such as robots.txt?
User-agent: * Disallow: /
There is nothing in the draft RDAP profile or any other rule in ICANN that I’m aware that would prohibit a registry/registrar to do what you suggest for both web-Whois and RDAP, Stephane. Regards, -- Francisco