diff --git a/cmd/proxy/actions/app_proxy.go b/cmd/proxy/actions/app_proxy.go
index d4784d31..b950ef2d 100644
--- a/cmd/proxy/actions/app_proxy.go
+++ b/cmd/proxy/actions/app_proxy.go
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ func addProxyRoutes(
 	r.HandleFunc("/readyz", getReadinessHandler(s))
 	r.HandleFunc("/version", versionHandler)
 	r.HandleFunc("/catalog", catalogHandler(s))
+	r.HandleFunc("/robots.txt", robotsHandler(c))
 
 	for _, sumdb := range c.SumDBs {
 		sumdbURL, err := url.Parse(sumdb)
diff --git a/cmd/proxy/actions/robots.go b/cmd/proxy/actions/robots.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ce2387da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/proxy/actions/robots.go
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package actions
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+
+	"github.com/gomods/athens/pkg/config"
+)
+
+// robotsHandler implements GET baseURL/robots.txt
+func robotsHandler(c *config.Config) http.HandlerFunc {
+	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		http.ServeFile(w, r, c.RobotsFile)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/config.dev.toml b/config.dev.toml
index 63a65f02..370c0ce2 100755
--- a/config.dev.toml
+++ b/config.dev.toml
@@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ PprofPort = ":3001"
 # that contains the letter `D` (for "Direct Access") in the first line.
 FilterFile = ""
 
+# The filename for the robots.txt.
+# ENV override: ATHENS_ROBOTS_FILE
+#
+# To provide /robots.txt for net crawler.
+# Default disallow all crawler.
+# Content details to see https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062608
+RobotsFile = "robots.txt"
+
 # Timeout is the timeout for external network calls in seconds
 # This value is used as the default for storage backends if they don't specify timeouts
 # Defaults to 300
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 48578cd3..dc547a56 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -6,8 +6,12 @@ git.apache.org/thrift.git v0.0.0-20180902110319-2566ecd5d999 h1:OR8VhtwhcAI3U48/
 git.apache.org/thrift.git v0.0.0-20180902110319-2566ecd5d999/go.mod h1:fPE2ZNJGynbRyZ4dJvy6G277gSllfV2HJqblrnkyeyg=
 github.com/Azure/azure-pipeline-go v0.1.8 h1:KmVRa8oFMaargVesEuuEoiLCQ4zCCwQ8QX/xg++KS20=
 github.com/Azure/azure-pipeline-go v0.1.8/go.mod h1:XA1kFWRVhSK+KNFiOhfv83Fv8L9achrP7OxIzeTn1Yg=
+github.com/Azure/azure-pipeline-go v0.2.1 h1:OLBdZJ3yvOn2MezlWvbrBMTEUQC72zAftRZOMdj5HYo=
+github.com/Azure/azure-pipeline-go v0.2.1/go.mod h1:UGSo8XybXnIGZ3epmeBw7Jdz+HiUVpqIlpz/HKHylF4=
 github.com/Azure/azure-storage-blob-go v0.0.0-20181022225951-5152f14ace1c h1:Y5ueznoCekgCWBytF1Q9lTpZ3tJeX37dQtCcGjMCLYI=
 github.com/Azure/azure-storage-blob-go v0.0.0-20181022225951-5152f14ace1c/go.mod h1:oGfmITT1V6x//CswqY2gtAHND+xIP64/qL7a5QJix0Y=
+github.com/Azure/azure-storage-blob-go v0.7.0 h1:MuueVOYkufCxJw5YZzF842DY2MBsp+hLuh2apKY0mck=
+github.com/Azure/azure-storage-blob-go v0.7.0/go.mod h1:f9YQKtsG1nMisotuTPpO0tjNuEjKRYAcJU8/ydDI++4=
 github.com/BurntSushi/toml v0.3.1 h1:WXkYYl6Yr3qBf1K79EBnL4mak0OimBfB0XUf9Vl28OQ=
 github.com/BurntSushi/toml v0.3.1/go.mod h1:xHWCNGjB5oqiDr8zfno3MHue2Ht5sIBksp03qcyfWMU=
 github.com/DataDog/datadog-go v0.0.0-20180822151419-281ae9f2d895 h1:dmc/C8bpE5VkQn65PNbbyACDC8xw8Hpp/NEurdPmQDQ=
@@ -144,6 +148,8 @@ github.com/markbates/hmax v1.0.0 h1:yo2N0gBoCnUMKhV/VRLHomT6Y9wUm+oQQENuWJqCdlM=
 github.com/markbates/hmax v1.0.0/go.mod h1:cOkR9dktiESxIMu+65oc/r/bdY4bE8zZw3OLhLx0X2c=
 github.com/mattn/go-colorable v0.0.9 h1:UVL0vNpWh04HeJXV0KLcaT7r06gOH2l4OW6ddYRUIY4=
 github.com/mattn/go-colorable v0.0.9/go.mod h1:9vuHe8Xs5qXnSaW/c/ABM9alt+Vo+STaOChaDxuIBZU=
+github.com/mattn/go-ieproxy v0.0.0-20190610004146-91bb50d98149 h1:HfxbT6/JcvIljmERptWhwa8XzP7H3T+Z2N26gTsaDaA=
+github.com/mattn/go-ieproxy v0.0.0-20190610004146-91bb50d98149/go.mod h1:31jz6HNzdxOmlERGGEc4v/dMssOfmp2p5bT/okiKFFc=
 github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.4 h1:bnP0vzxcAdeI1zdubAl5PjU6zsERjGZb7raWodagDYs=
 github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.4/go.mod h1:M+lRXTBqGeGNdLjl/ufCoiOlB5xdOkqRJdNxMWT7Zi4=
 github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.2/go.mod h1:LwmH8dsx7+W8Uxz3IHJYH5QSwggIsqBzpuz5H//U1FU=
diff --git a/pkg/config/config.go b/pkg/config/config.go
index de927456..1ae59931 100644
--- a/pkg/config/config.go
+++ b/pkg/config/config.go
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	DownloadMode     mode.Mode `envconfig:"ATHENS_DOWNLOAD_MODE"`
 	DownloadURL      string    `envconfig:"ATHENS_DOWNLOAD_URL"`
 	SingleFlightType string    `envconfig:"ATHENS_SINGLE_FLIGHT_TYPE"`
+	RobotsFile       string    `envconfig:"ATHENS_ROBOTS_FILE"`
 	SingleFlight     *SingleFlight
 	Storage          *StorageConfig
 }
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ func defaultConfig() *Config {
 		NoSumPatterns:    []string{},
 		DownloadMode:     "sync",
 		DownloadURL:      "",
+		RobotsFile:       "robots.txt",
 		SingleFlight: &SingleFlight{
 			Etcd:  &Etcd{"localhost:2379,localhost:22379,localhost:32379"},
 			Redis: &Redis{"127.0.0.1:6379"},
diff --git a/pkg/config/config_test.go b/pkg/config/config_test.go
index 6c5917dc..0482d1d7 100644
--- a/pkg/config/config_test.go
+++ b/pkg/config/config_test.go
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ func TestEnvOverrides(t *testing.T) {
 		HGRCPath:       "/test/path/.hgrc",
 		Storage:        &StorageConfig{},
 		SingleFlight:   &SingleFlight{},
+		RobotsFile:     "robots.txt",
 	}
 
 	envVars := getEnvMap(expConf)
@@ -282,6 +283,7 @@ func TestParseExampleConfig(t *testing.T) {
 		SumDBs:           []string{"https://sum.golang.org"},
 		NoSumPatterns:    []string{},
 		DownloadMode:     "sync",
+		RobotsFile:       "robots.txt",
 	}
 
 	absPath, err := filepath.Abs(testConfigFile(t))
@@ -322,6 +324,7 @@ func getEnvMap(config *Config) map[string]string {
 	envVars["ATHENS_PATH_PREFIX"] = config.PathPrefix
 	envVars["ATHENS_NETRC_PATH"] = config.NETRCPath
 	envVars["ATHENS_HGRC_PATH"] = config.HGRCPath
+	envVars["ATHENS_ROBOTS_FILE"] = config.RobotsFile
 
 	storage := config.Storage
 	if storage != nil {
diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1f53798b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/robots.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+User-agent: *
+Disallow: /