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Exclude Inactive Domains

How to exclude inactive domains from the scan.

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Q. How can I exclude inactive domains from the scan?

A.. The crawler finds all pages that it can access, including where live links are present to connect the pages. There are a few ways to exclude old or inactive domains:

  1. Contact the support team and provide an accurate sitemap so that we can ensure that the crawler only follows the specific path.

  2. Create link exclusions to prevent the crawler from scanning anything on the inactive domain(s).

    For more information, see the user guide article:
    ​Path Constraints and Link Exclusions.

  3. Create path constraints that specify exactly what the scan covers.
    For more information, see the user guide article:
    ​Path Constraints and Link Exclusions.

  4. It is also possible that the scan already detected that the domain is inactive. When this happens, a warning indicator (orange triangle with an exclamation point inside) is shown on the same row as a domain. It can also label a domain as inactive when the domain is not set up to actively scan on the platform.

Image showing the symbol of an exclamation point inside of a triangle, to the left of the domain name in the domains list.

Note: The scan does not automatically run on inactive domains. To do a scan on an inactive domain, select the On-demand scan button in the dashboard.

For more information, see the user guide article:

Configure Domain Scans.

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