panscient.com bot

The panscient.com bot is a large-scale web crawler from the company Panscient. It is designed to systematically navigate websites to collect specific types of business and professional information. The data it extracts—from corporate websites, press releases, and other public sources—is then licensed to resellers and third parties for business intelligence and marketing purposes. The crawler identifies itself with the user-agent string panscient.com. It is designed to be relatively unobtrusive, with a maximum request rate of one page per second.

The panscient.com bot is crawling your site because it is looking for corporate information, such as company names, executive biographies, and job openings. It may have discovered your site through publicly available domain registration lists, and it periodically checks these domains for business information. The bot only accesses publicly available content and does not collect sensitive personal information. Its crawling is part of a legitimate, though often unauthorized, business operation.

The purpose of the panscient.com bot is to build specialized vertical search engines and business intelligence databases. The company collects professional business contact and background information from US-based corporate websites. This data is then licensed to clients for use in marketing, lead generation, and data management. While this serves a legitimate business purpose, website owners should be aware that the public information on their site may be collected and commercially distributed.

To prevent the panscient.com bot from collecting data from your website, you can add a specific disallow rule to your robots.txt file. This is the standard method for managing access for web crawlers.

Add the following lines to your robots.txt file to block this bot:

User-agent: panscient.com
Disallow: /