Cloudflare: Introducing pay per crawl

[Hypersot]

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/2025-07-01-pay-per-crawl/

Is it only me that sees potential for a whole new way of domain monetisation similar to parking?

 

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[Bravo Mod Team]

Is it only me that sees potential for a whole new way of domain monetisation similar to parking?

Why might AI want to crawl parked domains, though?

AI might do crawl them sometimes when a user asks for research regarding undeveloped domains or something, but that probably won't result in a lot of crawls to generate more money than current monetization solutions (advertisements on domains).

Let us know if you have additional thoughts on it because we want to add monetization options to our landers.

 

[Hypersot]

This has nothing to do with parked domains. I mentioned 'similar to parking' because what cloudflare tries to do is basically a way for the website owner to earn income passively (like we do in domain parking).

Imagine how many crawlers hit websites every second; now, imagine if they actually paid to be allowed to crawl those websites.

If I'm not mistaken, there is a 402 Payment Required status message that, potentially, will be used by the website owners to decide whether a crawler is allowed to go about its business or not.

Imo, if this goes through, it will be huge. But as I said, probably it's only me that sees this as a huge future development lol.