Bots Reached New Web Addresses 1.2 to 4.4 Seconds After Their Certificates Were Logged, Study Finds
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Publish Date:
13 November, 2026
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By Evan Vega
A Novel Cognition pre-print put 18 empty hostnames on three domains: nine named in their own certificate and so published in the Certificate Transparency logs, nine covered only by a wildcard certificate. All 9 logged names were requested within 1.2 to 4.4 seconds of the log entry; 8 of the 9 unlogged names drew no outside request in 24 hours. ClaudeBot and GPTBot reached every logged name within minutes, and 92% of scanner requests in the first hour hunted for files such as /.env.
