diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 3186fb3..1e72a42 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ func main() {
 		"relay_sitemap":   "sitemap.xml",
 		"archive":         "archive.html",
 		"archive_sitemap": "sitemap.xml",
-		"robots":          "robots.txt",
 	}
 
 	funcMap := template.FuncMap{
diff --git a/render_robots.go b/render_robots.go
index f98caaa..e73fb23 100644
--- a/render_robots.go
+++ b/render_robots.go
@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
 )
 
 func renderRobots(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-	typ := "robots"
 	w.Header().Set("Cache-Control", "max-age=3600")
+	fmt.Fprintf(w, `User-agent: *
+Allow: /
 
-	params := map[string]any{}
-
-	if err := tmpls.ExecuteTemplate(w, templateMapping[typ], params); err != nil {
-		log.Error().Err(err).Msg("error rendering")
-		return
-	}
+Sitemap: https://{{%s}}/npubs-archive.xml
+Sitemap: https://{{%s}}/relays-archive.xml
+`, s.CanonicalHost, s.CanonicalHost)
 }
diff --git a/templates/robots.txt b/templates/robots.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 5bb3351..0000000
--- a/templates/robots.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-User-agent: *
-Allow: /
-
-Sitemap: https://{{s.CanonicalHost}}/npubs-archive.xml
-Sitemap: https://{{s.CanonicalHost}}/relays-archive.xml