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<div>The '''Deathwatch''' or '''Watchlist''' is a central indicator of websites and networks that are shutting down and serves as an indicator of what happened to particular sites that shut down quickly.<br />
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New sites should be added in chronological order, newest death date first. Forward-looking death dates should be added to the first list only. Sites large enough to warrant additional information will receive a dedicated page, linked from here and on [[:Category:Closing projects]].<br />
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(The content of the Getting Things Done table, merged with the In Progress table, can now be found on [[Small projects]].)<br />
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== Pre-emptive Alarmbells (Likely To Die) ==<br />
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=== Sunset Happy ===<br />
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*Oath/Verizon<br />
** Archive Team officially proclaims '''[[Yahoo!]]''' the least trustable host and its arch-enemy. Prove us different, Yahooligans. Or... don't. Expect anything in [[wikipedia:List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Yahoo!]] and [[wikipedia:List_of_Yahoo!-owned_sites_and_services]] to shutdown (if it hasn't already).<br />
**Please follow the feeds! {{url|https://twitter.com/YahooVictims}} & {{url|http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/03733117766037168292/11115209096644139952}}<br />
** [[AOL]] has decided to follow in Yahoo's footsteps by mass-closing websites at an alarmingly fast rate. Be careful not to leave any important data with them!<br />
* [[Nokia]] has recently been shutting down services at an alarmingly fast rate. Back up your data, Nokia users!<br />
* [[World2ch.org]] - ''"not dead yet!"''<br />
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=== Just When You Least Expect It ===<br />
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Archive Team keeps a list of '''[[Fire_Drill|"healthy sites"]]''' that could be fine today and not so hot tomorrow. We focus on ways to back your personal data off these sites so you don't put yourself at unnecessary risk.<br />
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=== Other endangered species and misc ideas ===<br />
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* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w Louis Rossmann's Youtube channel]. He released a video on June 30th with strong hints his channel and business were being shutdown because of reasons he was not able to state. <br />
** He runs/ran a business repairing Apple Macbook motherboards and making videos on how to do these repairs, business advice and related philosophy. <br />
** These repairs are considered "unauthorized" by Apple and could the driving force behind the shutdown. <br />
** There are approximately 700 educational videos on his channel that should be archived, please see the [[YouTube]] page on how to archive YouTube videos. <br />
** His business websites could also be at risk https://www.rossmanngroup.com/ & https://mailin.repair/ & https://www.rossmanngroup.com/boards/<br />
* BitTorrent DHT - indexed by various projects who tend to get shut down sooner or later:<br />
** [https://btdb.to BTDB] - has had domain seized in the past, [http://btdb.to/about uses gmail for DMCA notices], no other contact info<br />
** [https://btdig.com/ BTDigg] - has had multiple domains seized in the past and died before. Twitter and Facebook is inactive. Contact page doesn't work, but allegedly uses email form<br />
** [https://torrentproject.se/ Torrent Project] - maybe dead, see [[Deathwatch#2017]] for more information<br />
** [https://itorrents.org iTorrents.org] - torrent cache, run by the operator of limetorrents.cc (see whois for contact information)<br />
* [[Reddit]] - has banned several subreddits including r/FatPeopleHate, r/incels and r/maleforeveralone, which had tens of thousands of subscribers each. Other subreddits including r/Braincels, r/foreveralone, r/TheRedPill and r/MGTOW are endangered. Discussions and [https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/308/200/042/?TAP=1007&cid=causes_petition_postinfo petitions] about banning those subreddits are currently taking place.<ref>{{URL|https://babe.net/2018/03/07/incel-40474}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/83irsc/why_isnt_rbraincels_banned_yet/}}</ref><br />
* We have even more small tidbits of information at [[Deathwatch/Misc]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or ones with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[BlackBerry World]] will shut down.<br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan will shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] will shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]] will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@hubbard/liswiki-and-the-tragedy-of-the-non-commons-46f3c51a3002}}</ref><br />
* May 31: [[Kanji Koohii Forum]] with 253,371 posts and 14,950 threads will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.koohii.com/thread-15535.html}}</ref><br />
* May 17: The mobile game Paradise Bay's servers, making the game unplayable; the forums will follow one week later (May 24)<ref>{{URL|https://paradisebaygame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=524389}}</ref><br />
* May 13, 2019, all [[Tieba]] posts before January 1, 2017 was hidden by Baidu official. Baidu claimed this was for "database system upgrade". (In fact, Baidu surrendered to the CCP's harsh censorship.)<br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://www.99.se/|99}}, Scandinavia's largest and oldest Apple forum<br />
* March 31: All [[Wikia]]-hosted [[Uncyclopedia]]s<ref>{{URL|https://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:A_message_from_Fandom}}</ref><br />
* March 30: goo.gl, Google's URL shortening service will be frozen but existing shortlinks will continue to resolve.<ref>{{URL|https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>February 5</s> March 12: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures will be deleted.<ref>{{url|https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/18051950/flickr-1000-photo-limit-free-accounts-changes-pro-subscription-smugmug}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/02/04/flickr-begin-deleting-photos-users-if-they-dont-pay-fee/2769812002/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* October/November 2018: Donny Long and PornWikiLeaks are attempting to have [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] shut down.<br />
* October 1: Large Manosphere blog [[Return of Kings]] with 5,800 articles and an active comments section is [http://www.returnofkings.com/195790/return-of-kings-is-going-on-hiatus going on hiatus].<br />
* September 14: [https://www.racked.com/ Racked] ceased publication but will continue serving the archives for now.<ref>{{URL|https://www.racked.com/2018/9/14/17661866/racked-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* Date unknown: [https://blogs.harvard.edu/ Harvard's web blog service] is removing blogs by people not currently at Harvard.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/blog/2018/07/13/upcoming-changes/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2017 ===<br />
* [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, will only serve static files. Probably preparing for closure.<br />
* [https://torrentproject.se Torrent Project] - displays an error 403 page, but the server is still active and serving [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ the .onion domain]. Can be contacted via email (see https://web.archive.org/web/20170705071813/https://torrentproject.se/feedback). Has valuable metadata they've collected about torrents such as mediainfo, and also has a very large database (103m) of them.<br />
* Date unknown: [http://sasCommunity.org sasCommunity.org] published an announcement December 7, 2017 that the site would be decommissioned; on March 13, 2018, the site was converted into read-only mode.<br />
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=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: Pirate Bay image hosting site "Bayimg" returns after it shutdown in the raid. However, staff announced that the site would only be up for a week.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bays-image-hosting-site-bayimg-returns-for-a-bit-160425/}}</ref> As of 2019-01-03, the site is still online.<br />
* Date unknown: Lots of older [[nin.com]] sub-domains (e.g. remix.nin.com, forum.nin.com) are dying; DNS has already been repointed but the old hosts are still on as of 2016-12-20<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref><br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data is hosted on the site and is at risk of being deleted.<br />
* June 27: Music News Nashville is ceasing publication. "All of our archives will remain online for at least one more year." <ref>{{url|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/}}</ref><br />
* March 21: Futanariobsession, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, is closing its doors. <ref>{{url|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref><br />
* January 1: AutoHotKey's older, IPBoards based forum has been made read-only, in favor of their new forums. Users were migrated but forum posts were not. <ref>{{url|https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/149716-ip-boards-decommission/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://ahkscript.org/foundation/history.html}}</ref><br />
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=== 2015 ===<br />
* Date Unknown: [[Picasa]] content will increasingly be killed as [[wikipedia:Google Photos|Google Photos]] was launched on 2015-05-28 and will need users.<br />
* Date Unknown: AOL apparently has plans to kill a bunch of sites, including with [[Joystiq]], [[MyDaily]], and [[ParentDish]].<ref>{{url|http://recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* Date Unknown: Bad Juju Games has filed for bankruptcy, which might mean an end to [[Desura]] and [[Indie Royale]], which hosts a large amount of games not hosted anywhere else (some of which is free), as well as forums and various user-generated content. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
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== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* December 17: [[Tumblr]] nuked all adult content (or what their algorithms thought was adult content<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/carolinethegeek/status/1069712323923726336}}</ref>).<ref>{{URL|https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Sensitive-content}}</ref><br />
* November 5: [https://botbot.me/ BotBot.me], an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* October 10: 品葱 ({{url|https://pin-cong.com/}}) Due to the high quality criticism and reactionary to communism and China, Chinese Communist Party decided to take down it.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* August 1: [http://tindeck.com/ Tindeck] permanently ceased operations on August 1st, 2018, in response to the EU considering changes to Article 13 of the European Union Copyright Directive.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* July 18: [[Looksmax.net]], a red pill and self-improvement forum, has been shut down because the owner's wife demanded him to shut it down after the owner was doxed.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements guideline.gov, the US government's Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality's National Guidelines Clearinghouse, went dark.] It was a government database that one researcher said "was our go-to source, and there is nothing else like it in the world"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. ArchiveTeam archived the whole site in June 2018. It was added to [[ArchiveBot]] again in July to make sure that everything's covered: {{Job|1faxz160pkjk4yhndfizglop6}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com Pick-Up-Artist-Forum.com], with one million posts and 170,000 members, was shut down. "Sorry, this forum is no longer active. The posts/threads you see will remain available to read, however new registrations, posts, threads and any type of update will no longer be allowed. Thanks!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 1: [[Mapzen]] announced on 2 January 2018 that it "will cease operations at the end of January 2018. Our hosted APIs and all related support and services will turn off on February 1, 2018. You will not be charged for API usage in December/January.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources are present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
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=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] close; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* November 8: [[Miiverse]], Nintendo's social network which had a client in the 3DS and WiiU consoles and was also for the most part accessible over a PC web browser, was shut down. While incomplete, a good chunk of the content was unofficially backed up onto [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closes down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
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=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/ gets turned off.<br />
* Date unknown: According to akz, self-identified in #archivebot as a moderator of the site, [[Captain Luffy Forums]] will be closing when the hosting expires, as the owner has chosen not to renew it. It finally did so sometime after August 10th.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|http://What.cd/|What.cd}} suddenly shuts down. One of, if not, the largest BitTorrent Music Trackers on the internet. "Due to some recent events, What.CD is shutting down. We are not likely to return any time soon in our current form. All site and user data has been destroyed. So long, and thanks for all the fish."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ends web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shuts down after it is acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware is shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26, and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* October 23: Allmyvideos.net removed all videos and shut down their website for Good. They claimed that this is because their site is no longer profitable enough to run and maintain the website.<br />
* September: Questhub.io is a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} will shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar will shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: Yahoo has announced that is discontinuing support for all legacy versions of Yahoo messenger and on August 5th the servers will be shut down for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, shareware and other software payment processor that started in 1994, shut down with no notice, claiming: "For the past ten years Kagi has been struggling to recover from financial losses due to a supplier fraud situation. We have reduced the debt but the recovery has failed and forced us to close."<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* July 20: Kickasstorrents has been seized and the tor domain is offline as well. Fortunately, Proxies exist that have some of the data cached, but it's only a matter of time before the cache gets deleted or the proxies stop working. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, is shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk] Danish blog site (subproject of Arto).<br />
* May 13: Beatport "will be shutting down the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section."<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store are shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* February 9: Gametrailers officially closed, though the site is still up.<br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] is shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate is shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
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===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* July 24: Surfersparadise closes down most of its websites and content, including the Miss Surfersparadise illustration contest, after making an announcement just 11 days prior. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* June 13: Hungarian image hosting service [[keptarad.hu]] goes down with nearly 80,000 (or, according to inner source, 1.6 million) pictures, one week after it was scheduled to.<br />
* June 9: [[Pomf.se]] staff decided to go down with 1.6 million files (and thousands of pastes). Fortunately, they contacted ArchiveTeam and let them get a copy. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* January: Image hosting site Majhost quietly disappeared. Curiously, as of 2017, its whois registration is still renewed regularly. Its LEGO-related counterpart, Brickshelf, remains active.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: Gnome (Gnome Platform, formerly Interclick) and Right Media Exchange (Right Media Inc) is shutdown by Yahoo!.<ref>{{url|http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-shuts-down-right-media-exchange-2015-1}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://adexchanger.com/online-advertising/yahoo-retires-genome-and-right-media-brands-simplifies-around-yahoo-ad-exchange/}}</ref><ref><nowiki>http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/72591025021/introducing-the-new-yahoo-advertising</nowiki> ([https://archive.is/eGAIq archive.today] copy) (direct link blocked by wiki spamfilter)</ref><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
<br />
===2013===<br />
<br />
* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} is no more. The company that bought the website in 2004, Global Gaming League, decided to "move on" after basically running the website into the ground.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* November 18 (and back through 2012): Disney nuked a bunch of online games: Pixie Hollow Online, Cars Online, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Toontown Online. The futures of the large fan forums and an extremely completist wiki are doubtful. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} The Pixie Hollow fan forum specifically announced that they will not be archived, and the Cars Online forum seems to have a similar warning, while the other forums for the shut down games will apparently be migrated into this: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' promises lifetime control of your data and return of your data to loved ones for just $300 for "lifetime", or $30/year. Archive Team says to just say '''No'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* October 21: [[isoHunt]] was always going to shut down after an MPAA settlement. However, it did so earlier than expected to prevent archival efforts, claiming that 95% of torrents were available elsewhere. No mention of the metadata though.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* June 28: Nintendo shuts down all of its WiiConnect24 services, except for the Mii Channel, Wii Shop Channel, Mario Kart Wii Channel, and the Wii Speak Channel.<br />
* June 4: '''Adrenaline Vault''', a video game review site, has this posted on their Facebook profile: "Over the past weekend hackers hit the site with a DoS attack. Everything had been wiped and with no backups, everything was lost. It has been decided that Avault will remain closed. Rest in Peace, Avault."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', an anonymous file upload site, has announced that they are about $2500 in the hole on hosting costs, and that there is possibility of their shutting down if donations do not improve. It stands to reason that there are some files among their database that are worth saving. An attempt to contact the administrator for more information and to be given a dump of the site was made, and he responded saying he'd be happy to rsync a copy of the data after some legal issues have been settled.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* April 20: '''Microsoft Collection Book''', a site dedicated to collecting information about Windows betas, shuts down due to a C&D from Microsoft. It reopened on May 5 as '''The Collection Book'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' and '''all sites under opensolaris.org''', including the site hosting the OpenSolaris source code, were decommissioned by Oracle. OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris and originally created by Sun Microsystems. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, Oracle decided to discontinue open development of the core software, and replaced the OpenSolaris distribution model with the proprietary Solaris Express.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', a major video chat service, shut down. Users were emailed and given the ability to download any recorded videos for 3 weeks in advance of the closing date.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
<br />
===2012===<br />
<br />
* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', a Polish video game news portal, was closed in May, and later wiped entirely on October 29. The articles have been retained at the publisher's other video game portal, Polygamia.pl, but the article comments and the forums are gone (It also had user blogs, but they seemed to have been erased much earlier.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, a central distributor of FOSS commit messages to IRC channels, got its database deleted by its web host. There were no backups. It had been running for a decade (although it had changed maintainership a year before).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} by August 17. All of the images themselves (but not the comments) were available to download via torrents, though it is unknown if the torrents are still available. A possibly full torrent dump is available at [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ minuette.net, which hosts the image files on the website]. Currently the most popular/upvoted images are available via another imageboard, Derpibooru, but their copy is incomplete.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} to be closing on July 30, 2012. While the service has only been around for ~2 years it represents a unique look at services for Linked Data, and contains a variety of datasets. Kasabi has a {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* July 1: The Polish social network '''[[wikipedia:Grono.net]]''' has disappeared, replaced by a file hosting service '''grono.net.pl''' on July 1, 2012. Most content from the old site was supposed to be migrated, but, according to a message on the main page, technical difficulties have delayed the migration by one or two weeks. It's getting increasingly late...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* February: Hungarian free hosting provider {{url|1=http://eplanet.hu|2=Eplanet}} stops free service as of February 2012; unknown number of pages disappeared and probably deleted.<br />
* January 19: The popular file hosting service '''Megaupload''' has been shut down in January 2012; with it, '''Megavideo''' too is gone. It was mainly used for copyright infringement, but lots of perfectly regular files were hosted on it.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> and many great/experimental one of a kind tools vanished. Among many others "google sets" that had been around since a long time, "City Tours" some includeing user generated content and the exciting "google squared" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> that was an approach to pass more artificial intelligence to the user than conventional searchengines (compareable to wolframalpha) but seemingly based on a bigger/vast pool of data just like standard google searchresults). Since there is hardly any obvious rationale(?) for closeing down "Google Labs" it pictures google as being either less supportive or even hostile to new inoventions and less responsible with usergenerated content or more secretive about their ongoing projects than one might thought before or than Google might was before indeed. 1 Jan 2011 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' closed on May 3, 2011 and deleted everything on May 31, 2011. Users who heard about the closure were given the options of either transferring their photos and videos over to dotPhoto.com or purchasing a DVD with their content for $15.00.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* April 16: '''[[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]''' shutdown on 16. April 2011 without warning. Ongoing reconstruction Efforts. A lot of Images and Articles are probably lost. (The replacement OhInternet is a very strongly sanitized Version of ED.) <s>ED is claiming that they are in danger of shutting down. Despite the controversial nature of many articles hosted on the wiki, this would be a big loss of historical records.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* March 16: '''Microsoft''' closed '''Windows Live Spaces''' on March 16, 2011. Spaces owners had the option to migrate their blogs to '''WordPress''' or to make copies. As of January 4, 2011, they could no longer edit their existing Spaces.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* February 22: The [[Insurgency Wiki]] is a wiki with a community that created multiple guides and raids for Anonymous, in a similar manner to [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]. It's status has always been unclear, with many mirrors coming and going. But as of Feb. 22, 2012, the last mirror, Partyvan.info, looks like it has some damning database error. Just in case, the Bibliotheca Anonoma has made a full backup, including all available images available.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* January: The wiki hosting site '''wik.is''', hosted by MindTouch, shut down on the first week of January 2011; the explanation being that "in order to continue to support the growing needs of our MindTouch Express users, we are offering MindTouch Cloud", which "opens up additional features and functionality that are not available in Wik.is.". The only way you'd know all that is if you receive a warning e-mail from MindTouch. They offer to keep your site running by "upgrading to our paid Cloud version by {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' was a small social network started as a side venture by CareerBuilder.com in August 2009. It was quietly shutdown November 2010 without much fanfare. At its height it has 100k users.<br />
* October 31: '''isweb lite''', the Japanese GeoCities, shut down on October 31. Thousands of personal homepages of artists and illustrators were deleted forever. A tiny sample of the pages deleted: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* Mid-2010: '''[[JuniorNet]]''', a subscription based online portal for children, was quietly shut down nearly a decade after it dot-bombed and was acquired by former employees.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', once a popular Finnish web site associated with electronic dance music, clubbing/raving, and the other related things was closed in March after been running for years. All the content posted to the forums of the site was, however, obtained and made available by {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* December 6: '''favrd''', a website that aggregated favorite tweets from twitter, abruptly shut down on December 6, 2009 with absolutely no warning, killing off thousands of highlighted entries added by group-consensus over significant months. As a reward for their efforts, founder Dean Allen wrote this helpful message: ''"Alas, stars on Twitter have become mere take-out menus hung on the doors of other restaurants. There are still lots of clever and funny things to read every day, but finding these is no longer a challenge â you already follow your sources. Sites like this one now serve mainly as fuel for emotional up-fuckedness in the guise of a game. Just an idea: next time you see something you like, write the person who made it a note telling them so. Even better, explain why. Take care!"'' Advice to people who want to work with Dean Allen's projects in the future: don't.<br />
* November: '''here.is''' seems to permanently off-line. It ceased to re-direct email for some time ago and as per 11-23-09 it doesn't redirect even URLs any longer.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* October 31: '''Microsoft Encarta''', the online encyclopedia with a 15+ year history, is being shut down. The US version will shut down on October 31, 2009 and the Japanese version on December 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* August 30ish: '''ArchNacho's & TortillaGodzilla's Quality ROMs''', a site that hosted ROMs for NES, SNES, and Genesis games, which has announced its effective death back in January 2006, is now finally completely inaccessible, both on its original domain {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. The Wayback Machine contains a mirror of the site up through August 30, 2007, which is after all updates to the site ceased. All ROMs hosted on QualityRoms are included in the mirror and can be downloaded from there.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> that they are closing up shop on July 13, 2009. Of course, you can still register an account but that's the first thing you're told.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} on June 25, 2009 that they were "simplifying" things and deleting all user-generated photos and videos uploaded by users. They gave everyone '''five days''' to get their photos off, and then extended it to ''twenty days'' from the ensuing hue and cry. The uploaded videos had no way to extract them back.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' became the latest example of Yahoo!'s awesome respect for history and data, announcing the closure of the video hosting and editing site, for June 15, 2009. A software utility has been released to allow you to download the movies from Jumpcut. Otherwise, you are not in great shape - Yahoo says you can move your videos to Flickr, but Flickr cuts off at 90 seconds. A lot of homemade video is going to disappear.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* April 20: '''{{url|1=http://www.coghead.com|2=Coghead}}''', " a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications and a software as a platform 'utility computing' company", announced it had closed up on February 20, 2009, and that the site would go down permanently on April 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|1=http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=349}}</ref>. It did.<br />
* April 17: '''{{url|1=http://furl.net/|2=Furl}}''' was a social bookmarking service that had been around since 2004. It was acquired by Diigo (announced on March 9), allowed people to opt into transferring their bookmarks to Diigo, and shut down on April 17.<ref>blog.diigo.com/2009/03/16/welcome-furl-users/ (link blocked by spam filter)</ref><ref>{{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/09/diigo-buys-web-page-clipping-service-furl-away-from-looksmart/|2=Techcrunch post}}</ref><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* March 31: It doesn't get more ironic than this: '''{{url|1=https://www.upline.com/|2=Upline}}''', a HP-owned online backup service, is being shut down.<ref>{{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10173136-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5}}</ref> ''They almost immediately turned off the backup process,'' and then announced all your restorable data would go offline on March 31, roughly 30 days after announcement. Surprise!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|Yahoo Briefcase]]''', a positively ancient site run by Yahoo that provided you with 25 free megabytes of storage space for your junk, sent a mail to what were likely years-old contact addresses to tell them they had a little more than a month to get their files out, March 30, 2009. After that, the files would be deleted. What, Yahoo doesn't have a spare memory stick to store what must be the amount of files in this service for the next year?<br />
* March 25: '''Yahoo! Farechase''', an airline fare aggregation and searching site, was shut down on March 25, 2009. It had previously been its own company, founded in 1999, and purchased by Yahoo! in 2004. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "a FREE service that lets you download over 3 million songs and videos, legally and safely", pulled up stakes in the night and completely shut down on March 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> Initially, reports indicated it would shut down the website as well as the paper, but a plan was apparently in place to run a "skeleton crew" on an internet-only site, which continues to operate.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' had a combination database and backup failure, losing: "All votes, ever. All member usernames who registered later than around 12 months ago. All member rankings. Your member profile info (e.g., bio, favorite sift, etc.), if any. All activity that happened on the site yesterday, March 11." This is unlikely to kill the site, but an awful lot of data was lost.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', a "citizen journalism" site run by Getty images to allow the uploading of images by citizen journalists and the chance to be licensed to news organizations, announced they would no longer take any new imagery after February 6, 2009, and will shut down completely on March 6, 2009. Some content uploaders "may" be contacted about being absorbed into the main Getty site.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' was redirected to Last.fm. The free music it offered does not seem to have been transferred, however (the band Ancient Teknologi had several tracks available on music.download.com, but only one available on Last.fm). As of 28 February, it claimed to have 111.052 MP3s.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> We're watching to see what happens with the website (and the material, and the newspaper itself). With a 150-year history, there's a lot of backstory, and how this chronicler of history will end up, so too will many others. There is an excellent documentary about the last days of the Rocky Mountain News {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* February 23: '''Windows Live''' shut down the '''MSN Groups''' on February 23. They extended their original date from February 21st to give Group owners the weekend to prepare. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' had a catastrophic disk corruption/failure on January 31, 2009. From the message on the main site: ''"As I evaluate recovery options, I can't provide a certain timeline or prognosis as to to when or to what degree Ma.gnolia or your bookmarks will return; only that this process will take days, not hours."'' Ma.gnolia had an excellent export feature... hope you used it and did the backups they didn't!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, one of the site's heavily used social bookmarking features (somewhat like delicious for images) will remain up for a few weeks to allow users to save their stuff.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|AOL Pictures]]''' said so long on January 9, 2009. To their credit, you can still yank your stuff into other photo services until June 2009. (At least, according to their goodbye letter.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* October 27: '''Digitalrailroad.net''', a photo hosting site, gave their users a 24-hour eviction notice on October 27, 2008. They shut down 10 hours after the 24-hour notice. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: '''Flip.com''', a social network for teenage girls, shut down on December 16, 2008. Users were advised to print out their digital scrapbooks as backups. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' was shut down on December 8, 2008. A lot of people complained about this one, while others thanked the site for shutting down and wished the founder well! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' failed to provide bloggers with the traffic they so desperately desired, and the creator admitted on October 29, 2008 that his 4AM idea may not have been so brilliant. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> The amount of broken hearts and anguish over this move was amazing, and a warning sign to any family-oriented site that encourages families to join up.<br />
** Some of the more anguished fans have gotten together in various forms to recreate VMK, including {{url|1=http://game.myvmk.com/|2=MyVMK}}, {{url|1=http://www.vmkrevisited.com/|2=VMKRevisted}} (a memorial site), and {{url|1=http://www.openvmk.com/|2=OpenVMK}} (although OpenVMK shutdown due to {{url|1=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qTdpgcLUd-Hg6-FZzkVEju4x1aMlhbMNX6snlUNgnOM/|2=internal squabbles}}.)<br />
* February 14: '''[[wikipedia:Think_Secret]]''' was killed by Apple and shut down on February 14, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/12/apple-and-think.html}}</ref><br />
* July 31: '''Social.fm''' couldn't stand up to Last.fm, and died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10005554-36.html}}</ref><br />
* May 15: '''Brijit.com''', a news aggregation site, closed on May 15, 2008. It might be closed for good. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9945059-36.html}}</ref><br />
* February: '''Yahoo! Design''', a showcase of designing and information aesthetics related to the Yahoo! properties, got revised into oblivion in February, 2008 as part of a 1,000 employee layoff. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (Internet Underground Music Archive), of Santa Cruz, California, the actual first website to offer free hosting of bands including MP3 files of music offered by the bands, was mostly archived by John Gilmore before going down. At least one IUMA founder now has a copy of that archive. This ~800GB collection has been [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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* '''[[Berlios.de]]''' <s>will {{url|1=http://www.berlios.de/|2=shut down at end of 2011}}. The site hosts thousands of open source software projects (git, svn, bzr, mailing lists, bug tracking, etc.). {{url|1=http://developer.berlios.de/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2056&group_id=2|2=Instructions for exporting a project.}} Berlios is still open and they are now</s> {{url|1=http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/german-open-source-development-site-berlios-joins-sourceforge|2=partnered with sourceforge}} to keep things running.<br />
* '''[[Citizendium]]''''s finances {{url|1=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-08/News_and_notes|2=constantly cry for money}}. Running a MediaWiki site is cheap and Sanger is not homeless, hence it's expected to survive. [[WikiTeam]] archives it on a regular basis.<br />
* '''[[Delicious]]'''<ref>{{url|http://www.delicious.com}}</ref> will be {{url|1=http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/16/delicious.php|2=shutting down soon}}. The whole team was let go yesterday - 15 December 2010. {{url|1=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/16/2220225/Yahoo-To-Close-Delicious|2=Slashdot link}}. Delicious was acquired from Yahoo! in early 2011 by AVOS however all the prior content is gone.<br />
* '''Cli.gs''', another URL shortening service, announced closure: "On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics."<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/cligs-shutting-down}}</ref> In December 2009, it was announced that the "social bookmarking" site Mister Wong has acquired cli.gs and are keeping it running.<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/mister-wong-acquires-cligs}}</ref> All aboard the [[TinyURL]] project. <br />
* '''{{url|1=https://duck.co/topic/soft-launch-of-the-new-forum|2=Duck.co}}''', the official DuckDuckGo community forums, transitioned to their {{url|1=https://dukgo.com|2=own platform}} and moved all posts over from their old Zoho forum.<br />
* '''[[Earbits]]''' bites the dust on June 16, 2014, but comes back to life on June 19th, 2014. In between, we grabbed ~130GB of images and ~130k MP3s.<br />
* '''{{URL|http://www.filefront.com/|FileFront}}''' is closing up shop <ref>{{url|http://farewell.filefront.com/}}</ref>. The site will be suspended on March 30, 2009. 1.5 Million files and 48+ TB of space gone just like that. As of April 2, 2009, it looks like there may have been an 11th hour reprieve for Filefront: according to a message reportedly from the original founders of the service<ref>{{url|http://welcome.filefront.com/}}</ref>, the site has been re-acquired by them in order to prevent its proposed shuttering. On 2010-11-30, FileFront rebranded to [[GameFront]]<ref>{{URL|http://www.gamefront.com/welcome-to-the-gamefront-launch-center/}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[Google Video]]''' threatened to remove all hosted videos with two weeks' notice in April 2011. It backed down after criticism and an archive effort by the Archive Team.<br />
* '''Home of the Underdogs''' went under on Feb 9th<ref>{{url|http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2009/02/13/rip-hotu/}}</ref>. There has been some passed along words by the site's owner, now working at an NGO, that an attempt to bring it back may happen. (She definitely has backups of the site.) A community-driven effort to revive the site is currently underway <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org}}</ref>. Backups were restored, and the remaining files (1,000+) collected from the community. As of Jan 4th 2010, HOTU is reporting that files are back online <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org/component/content/article/25133-files-online-and-import-done}}</ref><br />
* '''[[JPG Magazine]]''' announced it would shut down on January 5, 2009 <ref>{{url|http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/01/jpg_magazine_says_goodbye.html}}</ref>, but the site lives {{url|1=http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/02/an_exciting_future_for_jpg.html|2=lives on under new ownership}}. Feel free to download the {{url|http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4624703/|torrent}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{url|http://kiwifarms.net/|Kiwi Farms}}, a notorious forum that mocks [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolcow "lolcows"], was shut down on January 20, 2017 without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later.<br />
* '''[[Linux Journal]]''': Announced on 1 December 2017 that it is ceasing publication.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication}}</ref> Announced on 1 January 2018 that it has been unexpectedly rescued.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-new-year-linux-journal-alive}}</ref><br />
* '''[[MobyGames]]''', the largest database of old game releases on the net, with huge amount of content found nowhere else. Was bought by [[GameFly]] in 2010 and received a new site design in September 2013, which made almost all contributors emigrate. Many site features have disappeared or became broken in the new design, and their large database of cover art and screenshots had problems loading. In December 2013, the site was bought by {{url|1=http://blueflamelabs.com/|2=Blue Flame Labs}}, who have restored the old site design and managed to draw back pretty much all the contributors. It seems that the site is going back to full health again. <br />
* {{url|https://nyaa.se|'''[[nyaa]]'''}} shut down at May 2 2017 due to copyright problem, and {{url|https://nyaa.si|revival at 10 day after}}.<br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* Video host '''[[Viddler]]''' announces in an {{url|1=http://mad.ly/5ae274?pact=20251445218&fe=1|2=e-mail newsletter}} that they're shutting down free accounts on March 11, 2014. But Archive Team kicked in and began to suck up the place until the owners told us to stop. Videos won't be permanently deleted.<br />
* '''[[WebCite]]''' &ndash; Has a habit of crying for money, threatening it will stop accepting submissions. Since October 2013, the Wayback Machine archives pages on demand, hence there's no reason to use a site like WebCite that declares self at risk. It's expected that they'll send their data to Internet Archive if they ever really have to shut down.<br />
* '''[[Word Count Journal]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wordcountjournal.com/about}}) is shutting down on June 11, 2011 '''UPDATE''' The site is fully up and running. (checked on October 21, 2011) '''UPDATE2''': Non-functional, but the website is up with this notice "Word Count Journal is no longer being supported." (checked on January 26th, 2012)<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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=== Tragic ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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=== Humorous ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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<div>The '''Deathwatch''' or '''Watchlist''' is a central indicator of websites and networks that are shutting down and serves as an indicator of what happened to particular sites that shut down quickly.<br />
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New sites should be added in chronological order, newest death date first. Forward-looking death dates should be added to the first list only. Sites large enough to warrant additional information will receive a dedicated page, linked from here and on [[:Category:Closing projects]].<br />
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(The content of the Getting Things Done table, merged with the In Progress table, can now be found on [[Small projects]].)<br />
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== Pre-emptive Alarmbells (Likely To Die) ==<br />
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=== Sunset Happy ===<br />
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*Oath/Verizon<br />
** Archive Team officially proclaims '''[[Yahoo!]]''' the least trustable host and its arch-enemy. Prove us different, Yahooligans. Or... don't. Expect anything in [[wikipedia:List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Yahoo!]] and [[wikipedia:List_of_Yahoo!-owned_sites_and_services]] to shutdown (if it hasn't already).<br />
**Please follow the feeds! {{url|https://twitter.com/YahooVictims}} & {{url|http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/03733117766037168292/11115209096644139952}}<br />
** [[AOL]] has decided to follow in Yahoo's footsteps by mass-closing websites at an alarmingly fast rate. Be careful not to leave any important data with them!<br />
* [[Nokia]] has recently been shutting down services at an alarmingly fast rate. Back up your data, Nokia users!<br />
* [[World2ch.org]] - ''"not dead yet!"''<br />
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=== Just When You Least Expect It ===<br />
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Archive Team keeps a list of '''[[Fire_Drill|"healthy sites"]]''' that could be fine today and not so hot tomorrow. We focus on ways to back your personal data off these sites so you don't put yourself at unnecessary risk.<br />
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=== Other endangered species and misc ideas ===<br />
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* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w Louis Rossmann's Youtube channel]. He released a video on June 30th with strong hints his channel and business were being shutdown because of reasons he was not able to state. <br />
** He runs/ran a business repairing Apple Macbook motherboards and making videos on how to do these repairs, business advice and related philosophy. <br />
** These repairs are considered "unauthorized" by Apple and could the driving force behind the shutdown. <br />
** There are approximately 700 educational videos on his channel that should be archived, please see the [[YouTube]] page on how to archive YouTube videos. <br />
** His business websites could also be at risk https://www.rossmanngroup.com/ & https://mailin.repair/ & https://www.rossmanngroup.com/boards/<br />
* BitTorrent DHT - indexed by various projects who tend to get shut down sooner or later:<br />
** [https://btdb.to BTDB] - has had domain seized in the past, [http://btdb.to/about uses gmail for DMCA notices], no other contact info<br />
** [https://btdig.com/ BTDigg] - has had multiple domains seized in the past and died before. Twitter and Facebook is inactive. Contact page doesn't work, but allegedly uses email form<br />
** [https://torrentproject.se/ Torrent Project] - maybe dead, see [[Deathwatch#2017]] for more information<br />
** [https://itorrents.org iTorrents.org] - torrent cache, run by the operator of limetorrents.cc (see whois for contact information)<br />
* [[Reddit]] - has banned several subreddits including r/FatPeopleHate, r/incels and r/maleforeveralone, which had tens of thousands of subscribers each. Other subreddits including r/Braincels, r/foreveralone, r/TheRedPill and r/MGTOW are endangered. Discussions and [https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/308/200/042/?TAP=1007&cid=causes_petition_postinfo petitions] about banning those subreddits are currently taking place.<ref>{{URL|https://babe.net/2018/03/07/incel-40474}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/83irsc/why_isnt_rbraincels_banned_yet/}}</ref><br />
* We have even more small tidbits of information at [[Deathwatch/Misc]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or ones with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[BlackBerry World]] will shut down.<br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan will shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] will shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]] will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@hubbard/liswiki-and-the-tragedy-of-the-non-commons-46f3c51a3002}}</ref><br />
* May 31: [[Kanji Koohii Forum]] with 253,371 posts and 14,950 threads will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.koohii.com/thread-15535.html}}</ref><br />
* May 17: The mobile game Paradise Bay's servers, making the game unplayable; the forums will follow one week later (May 24)<ref>{{URL|https://paradisebaygame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=524389}}</ref><br />
* May 13, 2019, all [[Tieba]] posts before January 1, 2017 was hidden by Baidu official. Baidu claimed this was for "database system upgrade". (In fact, this is the surrender to the increasingly harsh censorship by CCP.)<br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://www.99.se/|99}}, Scandinavia's largest and oldest Apple forum<br />
* March 31: All [[Wikia]]-hosted [[Uncyclopedia]]s<ref>{{URL|https://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:A_message_from_Fandom}}</ref><br />
* March 30: goo.gl, Google's URL shortening service will be frozen but existing shortlinks will continue to resolve.<ref>{{URL|https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>February 5</s> March 12: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures will be deleted.<ref>{{url|https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/18051950/flickr-1000-photo-limit-free-accounts-changes-pro-subscription-smugmug}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/02/04/flickr-begin-deleting-photos-users-if-they-dont-pay-fee/2769812002/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* October/November 2018: Donny Long and PornWikiLeaks are attempting to have [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] shut down.<br />
* October 1: Large Manosphere blog [[Return of Kings]] with 5,800 articles and an active comments section is [http://www.returnofkings.com/195790/return-of-kings-is-going-on-hiatus going on hiatus].<br />
* September 14: [https://www.racked.com/ Racked] ceased publication but will continue serving the archives for now.<ref>{{URL|https://www.racked.com/2018/9/14/17661866/racked-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* Date unknown: [https://blogs.harvard.edu/ Harvard's web blog service] is removing blogs by people not currently at Harvard.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/blog/2018/07/13/upcoming-changes/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2017 ===<br />
* [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, will only serve static files. Probably preparing for closure.<br />
* [https://torrentproject.se Torrent Project] - displays an error 403 page, but the server is still active and serving [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ the .onion domain]. Can be contacted via email (see https://web.archive.org/web/20170705071813/https://torrentproject.se/feedback). Has valuable metadata they've collected about torrents such as mediainfo, and also has a very large database (103m) of them.<br />
* Date unknown: [http://sasCommunity.org sasCommunity.org] published an announcement December 7, 2017 that the site would be decommissioned; on March 13, 2018, the site was converted into read-only mode.<br />
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=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: Pirate Bay image hosting site "Bayimg" returns after it shutdown in the raid. However, staff announced that the site would only be up for a week.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bays-image-hosting-site-bayimg-returns-for-a-bit-160425/}}</ref> As of 2019-01-03, the site is still online.<br />
* Date unknown: Lots of older [[nin.com]] sub-domains (e.g. remix.nin.com, forum.nin.com) are dying; DNS has already been repointed but the old hosts are still on as of 2016-12-20<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref><br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data is hosted on the site and is at risk of being deleted.<br />
* June 27: Music News Nashville is ceasing publication. "All of our archives will remain online for at least one more year." <ref>{{url|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/}}</ref><br />
* March 21: Futanariobsession, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, is closing its doors. <ref>{{url|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref><br />
* January 1: AutoHotKey's older, IPBoards based forum has been made read-only, in favor of their new forums. Users were migrated but forum posts were not. <ref>{{url|https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/149716-ip-boards-decommission/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://ahkscript.org/foundation/history.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2015 ===<br />
* Date Unknown: [[Picasa]] content will increasingly be killed as [[wikipedia:Google Photos|Google Photos]] was launched on 2015-05-28 and will need users.<br />
* Date Unknown: AOL apparently has plans to kill a bunch of sites, including with [[Joystiq]], [[MyDaily]], and [[ParentDish]].<ref>{{url|http://recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* Date Unknown: Bad Juju Games has filed for bankruptcy, which might mean an end to [[Desura]] and [[Indie Royale]], which hosts a large amount of games not hosted anywhere else (some of which is free), as well as forums and various user-generated content. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* December 17: [[Tumblr]] nuked all adult content (or what their algorithms thought was adult content<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/carolinethegeek/status/1069712323923726336}}</ref>).<ref>{{URL|https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Sensitive-content}}</ref><br />
* November 5: [https://botbot.me/ BotBot.me], an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* October 10: 品葱 ({{url|https://pin-cong.com/}}) Due to the high quality criticism and reactionary to communism and China, Chinese Communist Party decided to take down it.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* August 1: [http://tindeck.com/ Tindeck] permanently ceased operations on August 1st, 2018, in response to the EU considering changes to Article 13 of the European Union Copyright Directive.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* July 18: [[Looksmax.net]], a red pill and self-improvement forum, has been shut down because the owner's wife demanded him to shut it down after the owner was doxed.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements guideline.gov, the US government's Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality's National Guidelines Clearinghouse, went dark.] It was a government database that one researcher said "was our go-to source, and there is nothing else like it in the world"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. ArchiveTeam archived the whole site in June 2018. It was added to [[ArchiveBot]] again in July to make sure that everything's covered: {{Job|1faxz160pkjk4yhndfizglop6}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com Pick-Up-Artist-Forum.com], with one million posts and 170,000 members, was shut down. "Sorry, this forum is no longer active. The posts/threads you see will remain available to read, however new registrations, posts, threads and any type of update will no longer be allowed. Thanks!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 1: [[Mapzen]] announced on 2 January 2018 that it "will cease operations at the end of January 2018. Our hosted APIs and all related support and services will turn off on February 1, 2018. You will not be charged for API usage in December/January.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources are present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] close; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* November 8: [[Miiverse]], Nintendo's social network which had a client in the 3DS and WiiU consoles and was also for the most part accessible over a PC web browser, was shut down. While incomplete, a good chunk of the content was unofficially backed up onto [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closes down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/ gets turned off.<br />
* Date unknown: According to akz, self-identified in #archivebot as a moderator of the site, [[Captain Luffy Forums]] will be closing when the hosting expires, as the owner has chosen not to renew it. It finally did so sometime after August 10th.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|http://What.cd/|What.cd}} suddenly shuts down. One of, if not, the largest BitTorrent Music Trackers on the internet. "Due to some recent events, What.CD is shutting down. We are not likely to return any time soon in our current form. All site and user data has been destroyed. So long, and thanks for all the fish."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ends web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shuts down after it is acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware is shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26, and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* October 23: Allmyvideos.net removed all videos and shut down their website for Good. They claimed that this is because their site is no longer profitable enough to run and maintain the website.<br />
* September: Questhub.io is a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} will shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar will shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: Yahoo has announced that is discontinuing support for all legacy versions of Yahoo messenger and on August 5th the servers will be shut down for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, shareware and other software payment processor that started in 1994, shut down with no notice, claiming: "For the past ten years Kagi has been struggling to recover from financial losses due to a supplier fraud situation. We have reduced the debt but the recovery has failed and forced us to close."<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* July 20: Kickasstorrents has been seized and the tor domain is offline as well. Fortunately, Proxies exist that have some of the data cached, but it's only a matter of time before the cache gets deleted or the proxies stop working. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, is shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk] Danish blog site (subproject of Arto).<br />
* May 13: Beatport "will be shutting down the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section."<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store are shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* February 9: Gametrailers officially closed, though the site is still up.<br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] is shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate is shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* July 24: Surfersparadise closes down most of its websites and content, including the Miss Surfersparadise illustration contest, after making an announcement just 11 days prior. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* June 13: Hungarian image hosting service [[keptarad.hu]] goes down with nearly 80,000 (or, according to inner source, 1.6 million) pictures, one week after it was scheduled to.<br />
* June 9: [[Pomf.se]] staff decided to go down with 1.6 million files (and thousands of pastes). Fortunately, they contacted ArchiveTeam and let them get a copy. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* January: Image hosting site Majhost quietly disappeared. Curiously, as of 2017, its whois registration is still renewed regularly. Its LEGO-related counterpart, Brickshelf, remains active.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: Gnome (Gnome Platform, formerly Interclick) and Right Media Exchange (Right Media Inc) is shutdown by Yahoo!.<ref>{{url|http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-shuts-down-right-media-exchange-2015-1}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://adexchanger.com/online-advertising/yahoo-retires-genome-and-right-media-brands-simplifies-around-yahoo-ad-exchange/}}</ref><ref><nowiki>http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/72591025021/introducing-the-new-yahoo-advertising</nowiki> ([https://archive.is/eGAIq archive.today] copy) (direct link blocked by wiki spamfilter)</ref><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
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===2013===<br />
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* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} is no more. The company that bought the website in 2004, Global Gaming League, decided to "move on" after basically running the website into the ground.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* November 18 (and back through 2012): Disney nuked a bunch of online games: Pixie Hollow Online, Cars Online, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Toontown Online. The futures of the large fan forums and an extremely completist wiki are doubtful. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} The Pixie Hollow fan forum specifically announced that they will not be archived, and the Cars Online forum seems to have a similar warning, while the other forums for the shut down games will apparently be migrated into this: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' promises lifetime control of your data and return of your data to loved ones for just $300 for "lifetime", or $30/year. Archive Team says to just say '''No'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* October 21: [[isoHunt]] was always going to shut down after an MPAA settlement. However, it did so earlier than expected to prevent archival efforts, claiming that 95% of torrents were available elsewhere. No mention of the metadata though.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* June 28: Nintendo shuts down all of its WiiConnect24 services, except for the Mii Channel, Wii Shop Channel, Mario Kart Wii Channel, and the Wii Speak Channel.<br />
* June 4: '''Adrenaline Vault''', a video game review site, has this posted on their Facebook profile: "Over the past weekend hackers hit the site with a DoS attack. Everything had been wiped and with no backups, everything was lost. It has been decided that Avault will remain closed. Rest in Peace, Avault."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', an anonymous file upload site, has announced that they are about $2500 in the hole on hosting costs, and that there is possibility of their shutting down if donations do not improve. It stands to reason that there are some files among their database that are worth saving. An attempt to contact the administrator for more information and to be given a dump of the site was made, and he responded saying he'd be happy to rsync a copy of the data after some legal issues have been settled.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* April 20: '''Microsoft Collection Book''', a site dedicated to collecting information about Windows betas, shuts down due to a C&D from Microsoft. It reopened on May 5 as '''The Collection Book'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' and '''all sites under opensolaris.org''', including the site hosting the OpenSolaris source code, were decommissioned by Oracle. OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris and originally created by Sun Microsystems. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, Oracle decided to discontinue open development of the core software, and replaced the OpenSolaris distribution model with the proprietary Solaris Express.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', a major video chat service, shut down. Users were emailed and given the ability to download any recorded videos for 3 weeks in advance of the closing date.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', a Polish video game news portal, was closed in May, and later wiped entirely on October 29. The articles have been retained at the publisher's other video game portal, Polygamia.pl, but the article comments and the forums are gone (It also had user blogs, but they seemed to have been erased much earlier.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, a central distributor of FOSS commit messages to IRC channels, got its database deleted by its web host. There were no backups. It had been running for a decade (although it had changed maintainership a year before).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} by August 17. All of the images themselves (but not the comments) were available to download via torrents, though it is unknown if the torrents are still available. A possibly full torrent dump is available at [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ minuette.net, which hosts the image files on the website]. Currently the most popular/upvoted images are available via another imageboard, Derpibooru, but their copy is incomplete.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} to be closing on July 30, 2012. While the service has only been around for ~2 years it represents a unique look at services for Linked Data, and contains a variety of datasets. Kasabi has a {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* July 1: The Polish social network '''[[wikipedia:Grono.net]]''' has disappeared, replaced by a file hosting service '''grono.net.pl''' on July 1, 2012. Most content from the old site was supposed to be migrated, but, according to a message on the main page, technical difficulties have delayed the migration by one or two weeks. It's getting increasingly late...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* February: Hungarian free hosting provider {{url|1=http://eplanet.hu|2=Eplanet}} stops free service as of February 2012; unknown number of pages disappeared and probably deleted.<br />
* January 19: The popular file hosting service '''Megaupload''' has been shut down in January 2012; with it, '''Megavideo''' too is gone. It was mainly used for copyright infringement, but lots of perfectly regular files were hosted on it.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> and many great/experimental one of a kind tools vanished. Among many others "google sets" that had been around since a long time, "City Tours" some includeing user generated content and the exciting "google squared" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> that was an approach to pass more artificial intelligence to the user than conventional searchengines (compareable to wolframalpha) but seemingly based on a bigger/vast pool of data just like standard google searchresults). Since there is hardly any obvious rationale(?) for closeing down "Google Labs" it pictures google as being either less supportive or even hostile to new inoventions and less responsible with usergenerated content or more secretive about their ongoing projects than one might thought before or than Google might was before indeed. 1 Jan 2011 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' closed on May 3, 2011 and deleted everything on May 31, 2011. Users who heard about the closure were given the options of either transferring their photos and videos over to dotPhoto.com or purchasing a DVD with their content for $15.00.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* April 16: '''[[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]''' shutdown on 16. April 2011 without warning. Ongoing reconstruction Efforts. A lot of Images and Articles are probably lost. (The replacement OhInternet is a very strongly sanitized Version of ED.) <s>ED is claiming that they are in danger of shutting down. Despite the controversial nature of many articles hosted on the wiki, this would be a big loss of historical records.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* March 16: '''Microsoft''' closed '''Windows Live Spaces''' on March 16, 2011. Spaces owners had the option to migrate their blogs to '''WordPress''' or to make copies. As of January 4, 2011, they could no longer edit their existing Spaces.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* February 22: The [[Insurgency Wiki]] is a wiki with a community that created multiple guides and raids for Anonymous, in a similar manner to [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]. It's status has always been unclear, with many mirrors coming and going. But as of Feb. 22, 2012, the last mirror, Partyvan.info, looks like it has some damning database error. Just in case, the Bibliotheca Anonoma has made a full backup, including all available images available.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* January: The wiki hosting site '''wik.is''', hosted by MindTouch, shut down on the first week of January 2011; the explanation being that "in order to continue to support the growing needs of our MindTouch Express users, we are offering MindTouch Cloud", which "opens up additional features and functionality that are not available in Wik.is.". The only way you'd know all that is if you receive a warning e-mail from MindTouch. They offer to keep your site running by "upgrading to our paid Cloud version by {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' was a small social network started as a side venture by CareerBuilder.com in August 2009. It was quietly shutdown November 2010 without much fanfare. At its height it has 100k users.<br />
* October 31: '''isweb lite''', the Japanese GeoCities, shut down on October 31. Thousands of personal homepages of artists and illustrators were deleted forever. A tiny sample of the pages deleted: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* Mid-2010: '''[[JuniorNet]]''', a subscription based online portal for children, was quietly shut down nearly a decade after it dot-bombed and was acquired by former employees.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', once a popular Finnish web site associated with electronic dance music, clubbing/raving, and the other related things was closed in March after been running for years. All the content posted to the forums of the site was, however, obtained and made available by {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
<br />
* December 6: '''favrd''', a website that aggregated favorite tweets from twitter, abruptly shut down on December 6, 2009 with absolutely no warning, killing off thousands of highlighted entries added by group-consensus over significant months. As a reward for their efforts, founder Dean Allen wrote this helpful message: ''"Alas, stars on Twitter have become mere take-out menus hung on the doors of other restaurants. There are still lots of clever and funny things to read every day, but finding these is no longer a challenge â you already follow your sources. Sites like this one now serve mainly as fuel for emotional up-fuckedness in the guise of a game. Just an idea: next time you see something you like, write the person who made it a note telling them so. Even better, explain why. Take care!"'' Advice to people who want to work with Dean Allen's projects in the future: don't.<br />
* November: '''here.is''' seems to permanently off-line. It ceased to re-direct email for some time ago and as per 11-23-09 it doesn't redirect even URLs any longer.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* October 31: '''Microsoft Encarta''', the online encyclopedia with a 15+ year history, is being shut down. The US version will shut down on October 31, 2009 and the Japanese version on December 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* August 30ish: '''ArchNacho's & TortillaGodzilla's Quality ROMs''', a site that hosted ROMs for NES, SNES, and Genesis games, which has announced its effective death back in January 2006, is now finally completely inaccessible, both on its original domain {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. The Wayback Machine contains a mirror of the site up through August 30, 2007, which is after all updates to the site ceased. All ROMs hosted on QualityRoms are included in the mirror and can be downloaded from there.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> that they are closing up shop on July 13, 2009. Of course, you can still register an account but that's the first thing you're told.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} on June 25, 2009 that they were "simplifying" things and deleting all user-generated photos and videos uploaded by users. They gave everyone '''five days''' to get their photos off, and then extended it to ''twenty days'' from the ensuing hue and cry. The uploaded videos had no way to extract them back.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' became the latest example of Yahoo!'s awesome respect for history and data, announcing the closure of the video hosting and editing site, for June 15, 2009. A software utility has been released to allow you to download the movies from Jumpcut. Otherwise, you are not in great shape - Yahoo says you can move your videos to Flickr, but Flickr cuts off at 90 seconds. A lot of homemade video is going to disappear.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* April 20: '''{{url|1=http://www.coghead.com|2=Coghead}}''', " a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications and a software as a platform 'utility computing' company", announced it had closed up on February 20, 2009, and that the site would go down permanently on April 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|1=http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=349}}</ref>. It did.<br />
* April 17: '''{{url|1=http://furl.net/|2=Furl}}''' was a social bookmarking service that had been around since 2004. It was acquired by Diigo (announced on March 9), allowed people to opt into transferring their bookmarks to Diigo, and shut down on April 17.<ref>blog.diigo.com/2009/03/16/welcome-furl-users/ (link blocked by spam filter)</ref><ref>{{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/09/diigo-buys-web-page-clipping-service-furl-away-from-looksmart/|2=Techcrunch post}}</ref><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* March 31: It doesn't get more ironic than this: '''{{url|1=https://www.upline.com/|2=Upline}}''', a HP-owned online backup service, is being shut down.<ref>{{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10173136-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5}}</ref> ''They almost immediately turned off the backup process,'' and then announced all your restorable data would go offline on March 31, roughly 30 days after announcement. Surprise!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|Yahoo Briefcase]]''', a positively ancient site run by Yahoo that provided you with 25 free megabytes of storage space for your junk, sent a mail to what were likely years-old contact addresses to tell them they had a little more than a month to get their files out, March 30, 2009. After that, the files would be deleted. What, Yahoo doesn't have a spare memory stick to store what must be the amount of files in this service for the next year?<br />
* March 25: '''Yahoo! Farechase''', an airline fare aggregation and searching site, was shut down on March 25, 2009. It had previously been its own company, founded in 1999, and purchased by Yahoo! in 2004. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "a FREE service that lets you download over 3 million songs and videos, legally and safely", pulled up stakes in the night and completely shut down on March 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> Initially, reports indicated it would shut down the website as well as the paper, but a plan was apparently in place to run a "skeleton crew" on an internet-only site, which continues to operate.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' had a combination database and backup failure, losing: "All votes, ever. All member usernames who registered later than around 12 months ago. All member rankings. Your member profile info (e.g., bio, favorite sift, etc.), if any. All activity that happened on the site yesterday, March 11." This is unlikely to kill the site, but an awful lot of data was lost.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', a "citizen journalism" site run by Getty images to allow the uploading of images by citizen journalists and the chance to be licensed to news organizations, announced they would no longer take any new imagery after February 6, 2009, and will shut down completely on March 6, 2009. Some content uploaders "may" be contacted about being absorbed into the main Getty site.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' was redirected to Last.fm. The free music it offered does not seem to have been transferred, however (the band Ancient Teknologi had several tracks available on music.download.com, but only one available on Last.fm). As of 28 February, it claimed to have 111.052 MP3s.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> We're watching to see what happens with the website (and the material, and the newspaper itself). With a 150-year history, there's a lot of backstory, and how this chronicler of history will end up, so too will many others. There is an excellent documentary about the last days of the Rocky Mountain News {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* February 23: '''Windows Live''' shut down the '''MSN Groups''' on February 23. They extended their original date from February 21st to give Group owners the weekend to prepare. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' had a catastrophic disk corruption/failure on January 31, 2009. From the message on the main site: ''"As I evaluate recovery options, I can't provide a certain timeline or prognosis as to to when or to what degree Ma.gnolia or your bookmarks will return; only that this process will take days, not hours."'' Ma.gnolia had an excellent export feature... hope you used it and did the backups they didn't!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, one of the site's heavily used social bookmarking features (somewhat like delicious for images) will remain up for a few weeks to allow users to save their stuff.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|AOL Pictures]]''' said so long on January 9, 2009. To their credit, you can still yank your stuff into other photo services until June 2009. (At least, according to their goodbye letter.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
<br />
===2008===<br />
<br />
* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* October 27: '''Digitalrailroad.net''', a photo hosting site, gave their users a 24-hour eviction notice on October 27, 2008. They shut down 10 hours after the 24-hour notice. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: '''Flip.com''', a social network for teenage girls, shut down on December 16, 2008. Users were advised to print out their digital scrapbooks as backups. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' was shut down on December 8, 2008. A lot of people complained about this one, while others thanked the site for shutting down and wished the founder well! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' failed to provide bloggers with the traffic they so desperately desired, and the creator admitted on October 29, 2008 that his 4AM idea may not have been so brilliant. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> The amount of broken hearts and anguish over this move was amazing, and a warning sign to any family-oriented site that encourages families to join up.<br />
** Some of the more anguished fans have gotten together in various forms to recreate VMK, including {{url|1=http://game.myvmk.com/|2=MyVMK}}, {{url|1=http://www.vmkrevisited.com/|2=VMKRevisted}} (a memorial site), and {{url|1=http://www.openvmk.com/|2=OpenVMK}} (although OpenVMK shutdown due to {{url|1=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qTdpgcLUd-Hg6-FZzkVEju4x1aMlhbMNX6snlUNgnOM/|2=internal squabbles}}.)<br />
* February 14: '''[[wikipedia:Think_Secret]]''' was killed by Apple and shut down on February 14, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/12/apple-and-think.html}}</ref><br />
* July 31: '''Social.fm''' couldn't stand up to Last.fm, and died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10005554-36.html}}</ref><br />
* May 15: '''Brijit.com''', a news aggregation site, closed on May 15, 2008. It might be closed for good. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9945059-36.html}}</ref><br />
* February: '''Yahoo! Design''', a showcase of designing and information aesthetics related to the Yahoo! properties, got revised into oblivion in February, 2008 as part of a 1,000 employee layoff. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (Internet Underground Music Archive), of Santa Cruz, California, the actual first website to offer free hosting of bands including MP3 files of music offered by the bands, was mostly archived by John Gilmore before going down. At least one IUMA founder now has a copy of that archive. This ~800GB collection has been [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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* '''[[Berlios.de]]''' <s>will {{url|1=http://www.berlios.de/|2=shut down at end of 2011}}. The site hosts thousands of open source software projects (git, svn, bzr, mailing lists, bug tracking, etc.). {{url|1=http://developer.berlios.de/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2056&group_id=2|2=Instructions for exporting a project.}} Berlios is still open and they are now</s> {{url|1=http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/german-open-source-development-site-berlios-joins-sourceforge|2=partnered with sourceforge}} to keep things running.<br />
* '''[[Citizendium]]''''s finances {{url|1=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-08/News_and_notes|2=constantly cry for money}}. Running a MediaWiki site is cheap and Sanger is not homeless, hence it's expected to survive. [[WikiTeam]] archives it on a regular basis.<br />
* '''[[Delicious]]'''<ref>{{url|http://www.delicious.com}}</ref> will be {{url|1=http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/16/delicious.php|2=shutting down soon}}. The whole team was let go yesterday - 15 December 2010. {{url|1=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/16/2220225/Yahoo-To-Close-Delicious|2=Slashdot link}}. Delicious was acquired from Yahoo! in early 2011 by AVOS however all the prior content is gone.<br />
* '''Cli.gs''', another URL shortening service, announced closure: "On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics."<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/cligs-shutting-down}}</ref> In December 2009, it was announced that the "social bookmarking" site Mister Wong has acquired cli.gs and are keeping it running.<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/mister-wong-acquires-cligs}}</ref> All aboard the [[TinyURL]] project. <br />
* '''{{url|1=https://duck.co/topic/soft-launch-of-the-new-forum|2=Duck.co}}''', the official DuckDuckGo community forums, transitioned to their {{url|1=https://dukgo.com|2=own platform}} and moved all posts over from their old Zoho forum.<br />
* '''[[Earbits]]''' bites the dust on June 16, 2014, but comes back to life on June 19th, 2014. In between, we grabbed ~130GB of images and ~130k MP3s.<br />
* '''{{URL|http://www.filefront.com/|FileFront}}''' is closing up shop <ref>{{url|http://farewell.filefront.com/}}</ref>. The site will be suspended on March 30, 2009. 1.5 Million files and 48+ TB of space gone just like that. As of April 2, 2009, it looks like there may have been an 11th hour reprieve for Filefront: according to a message reportedly from the original founders of the service<ref>{{url|http://welcome.filefront.com/}}</ref>, the site has been re-acquired by them in order to prevent its proposed shuttering. On 2010-11-30, FileFront rebranded to [[GameFront]]<ref>{{URL|http://www.gamefront.com/welcome-to-the-gamefront-launch-center/}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[Google Video]]''' threatened to remove all hosted videos with two weeks' notice in April 2011. It backed down after criticism and an archive effort by the Archive Team.<br />
* '''Home of the Underdogs''' went under on Feb 9th<ref>{{url|http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2009/02/13/rip-hotu/}}</ref>. There has been some passed along words by the site's owner, now working at an NGO, that an attempt to bring it back may happen. (She definitely has backups of the site.) A community-driven effort to revive the site is currently underway <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org}}</ref>. Backups were restored, and the remaining files (1,000+) collected from the community. As of Jan 4th 2010, HOTU is reporting that files are back online <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org/component/content/article/25133-files-online-and-import-done}}</ref><br />
* '''[[JPG Magazine]]''' announced it would shut down on January 5, 2009 <ref>{{url|http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/01/jpg_magazine_says_goodbye.html}}</ref>, but the site lives {{url|1=http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/02/an_exciting_future_for_jpg.html|2=lives on under new ownership}}. Feel free to download the {{url|http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4624703/|torrent}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{url|http://kiwifarms.net/|Kiwi Farms}}, a notorious forum that mocks [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolcow "lolcows"], was shut down on January 20, 2017 without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later.<br />
* '''[[Linux Journal]]''': Announced on 1 December 2017 that it is ceasing publication.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication}}</ref> Announced on 1 January 2018 that it has been unexpectedly rescued.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-new-year-linux-journal-alive}}</ref><br />
* '''[[MobyGames]]''', the largest database of old game releases on the net, with huge amount of content found nowhere else. Was bought by [[GameFly]] in 2010 and received a new site design in September 2013, which made almost all contributors emigrate. Many site features have disappeared or became broken in the new design, and their large database of cover art and screenshots had problems loading. In December 2013, the site was bought by {{url|1=http://blueflamelabs.com/|2=Blue Flame Labs}}, who have restored the old site design and managed to draw back pretty much all the contributors. It seems that the site is going back to full health again. <br />
* {{url|https://nyaa.se|'''[[nyaa]]'''}} shut down at May 2 2017 due to copyright problem, and {{url|https://nyaa.si|revival at 10 day after}}.<br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* Video host '''[[Viddler]]''' announces in an {{url|1=http://mad.ly/5ae274?pact=20251445218&fe=1|2=e-mail newsletter}} that they're shutting down free accounts on March 11, 2014. But Archive Team kicked in and began to suck up the place until the owners told us to stop. Videos won't be permanently deleted.<br />
* '''[[WebCite]]''' &ndash; Has a habit of crying for money, threatening it will stop accepting submissions. Since October 2013, the Wayback Machine archives pages on demand, hence there's no reason to use a site like WebCite that declares self at risk. It's expected that they'll send their data to Internet Archive if they ever really have to shut down.<br />
* '''[[Word Count Journal]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wordcountjournal.com/about}}) is shutting down on June 11, 2011 '''UPDATE''' The site is fully up and running. (checked on October 21, 2011) '''UPDATE2''': Non-functional, but the website is up with this notice "Word Count Journal is no longer being supported." (checked on January 26th, 2012)<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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=== Tragic ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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<div>The '''Deathwatch''' or '''Watchlist''' is a central indicator of websites and networks that are shutting down and serves as an indicator of what happened to particular sites that shut down quickly.<br />
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New sites should be added in chronological order, newest death date first. Forward-looking death dates should be added to the first list only. Sites large enough to warrant additional information will receive a dedicated page, linked from here and on [[:Category:Closing projects]].<br />
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(The content of the Getting Things Done table, merged with the In Progress table, can now be found on [[Small projects]].)<br />
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== Pre-emptive Alarmbells (Likely To Die) ==<br />
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=== Sunset Happy ===<br />
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*Oath/Verizon<br />
** Archive Team officially proclaims '''[[Yahoo!]]''' the least trustable host and its arch-enemy. Prove us different, Yahooligans. Or... don't. Expect anything in [[wikipedia:List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Yahoo!]] and [[wikipedia:List_of_Yahoo!-owned_sites_and_services]] to shutdown (if it hasn't already).<br />
**Please follow the feeds! {{url|https://twitter.com/YahooVictims}} & {{url|http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/03733117766037168292/11115209096644139952}}<br />
** [[AOL]] has decided to follow in Yahoo's footsteps by mass-closing websites at an alarmingly fast rate. Be careful not to leave any important data with them!<br />
* [[Nokia]] has recently been shutting down services at an alarmingly fast rate. Back up your data, Nokia users!<br />
* [[World2ch.org]] - ''"not dead yet!"''<br />
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=== Just When You Least Expect It ===<br />
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Archive Team keeps a list of '''[[Fire_Drill|"healthy sites"]]''' that could be fine today and not so hot tomorrow. We focus on ways to back your personal data off these sites so you don't put yourself at unnecessary risk.<br />
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=== Other endangered species and misc ideas ===<br />
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* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w Louis Rossmann's Youtube channel]. He released a video on June 30th with strong hints his channel and business were being shutdown because of reasons he was not able to state. <br />
** He runs/ran a business repairing Apple Macbook motherboards and making videos on how to do these repairs, business advice and related philosophy. <br />
** These repairs are considered "unauthorized" by Apple and could the driving force behind the shutdown. <br />
** There are approximately 700 educational videos on his channel that should be archived, please see the [[YouTube]] page on how to archive YouTube videos. <br />
** His business websites could also be at risk https://www.rossmanngroup.com/ & https://mailin.repair/ & https://www.rossmanngroup.com/boards/<br />
* BitTorrent DHT - indexed by various projects who tend to get shut down sooner or later:<br />
** [https://btdb.to BTDB] - has had domain seized in the past, [http://btdb.to/about uses gmail for DMCA notices], no other contact info<br />
** [https://btdig.com/ BTDigg] - has had multiple domains seized in the past and died before. Twitter and Facebook is inactive. Contact page doesn't work, but allegedly uses email form<br />
** [https://torrentproject.se/ Torrent Project] - maybe dead, see [[Deathwatch#2017]] for more information<br />
** [https://itorrents.org iTorrents.org] - torrent cache, run by the operator of limetorrents.cc (see whois for contact information)<br />
* [[Reddit]] - has banned several subreddits including r/FatPeopleHate, r/incels and r/maleforeveralone, which had tens of thousands of subscribers each. Other subreddits including r/Braincels, r/foreveralone, r/TheRedPill and r/MGTOW are endangered. Discussions and [https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/308/200/042/?TAP=1007&cid=causes_petition_postinfo petitions] about banning those subreddits are currently taking place.<ref>{{URL|https://babe.net/2018/03/07/incel-40474}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/83irsc/why_isnt_rbraincels_banned_yet/}}</ref><br />
* We have even more small tidbits of information at [[Deathwatch/Misc]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or ones with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[BlackBerry World]] will shut down.<br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan will shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] will shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]] will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@hubbard/liswiki-and-the-tragedy-of-the-non-commons-46f3c51a3002}}</ref><br />
* May 31: [[Kanji Koohii Forum]] with 253,371 posts and 14,950 threads will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.koohii.com/thread-15535.html}}</ref><br />
* May 17: The mobile game Paradise Bay's servers, making the game unplayable; the forums will follow one week later (May 24)<ref>{{URL|https://paradisebaygame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=524389}}</ref><br />
* May 13, 2019, all [[Tieba]] posts before January 1, 2017 was hidden by Baidu official. Baidu claimed this was for "data system upgrade". (In fact, this is the surrender to the increasingly harsh censorship of CCP.)<br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://www.99.se/|99}}, Scandinavia's largest and oldest Apple forum<br />
* March 31: All [[Wikia]]-hosted [[Uncyclopedia]]s<ref>{{URL|https://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:A_message_from_Fandom}}</ref><br />
* March 30: goo.gl, Google's URL shortening service will be frozen but existing shortlinks will continue to resolve.<ref>{{URL|https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>February 5</s> March 12: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures will be deleted.<ref>{{url|https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/18051950/flickr-1000-photo-limit-free-accounts-changes-pro-subscription-smugmug}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/02/04/flickr-begin-deleting-photos-users-if-they-dont-pay-fee/2769812002/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* October/November 2018: Donny Long and PornWikiLeaks are attempting to have [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] shut down.<br />
* October 1: Large Manosphere blog [[Return of Kings]] with 5,800 articles and an active comments section is [http://www.returnofkings.com/195790/return-of-kings-is-going-on-hiatus going on hiatus].<br />
* September 14: [https://www.racked.com/ Racked] ceased publication but will continue serving the archives for now.<ref>{{URL|https://www.racked.com/2018/9/14/17661866/racked-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* Date unknown: [https://blogs.harvard.edu/ Harvard's web blog service] is removing blogs by people not currently at Harvard.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/blog/2018/07/13/upcoming-changes/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2017 ===<br />
* [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, will only serve static files. Probably preparing for closure.<br />
* [https://torrentproject.se Torrent Project] - displays an error 403 page, but the server is still active and serving [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ the .onion domain]. Can be contacted via email (see https://web.archive.org/web/20170705071813/https://torrentproject.se/feedback). Has valuable metadata they've collected about torrents such as mediainfo, and also has a very large database (103m) of them.<br />
* Date unknown: [http://sasCommunity.org sasCommunity.org] published an announcement December 7, 2017 that the site would be decommissioned; on March 13, 2018, the site was converted into read-only mode.<br />
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=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: Pirate Bay image hosting site "Bayimg" returns after it shutdown in the raid. However, staff announced that the site would only be up for a week.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bays-image-hosting-site-bayimg-returns-for-a-bit-160425/}}</ref> As of 2019-01-03, the site is still online.<br />
* Date unknown: Lots of older [[nin.com]] sub-domains (e.g. remix.nin.com, forum.nin.com) are dying; DNS has already been repointed but the old hosts are still on as of 2016-12-20<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref><br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data is hosted on the site and is at risk of being deleted.<br />
* June 27: Music News Nashville is ceasing publication. "All of our archives will remain online for at least one more year." <ref>{{url|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/}}</ref><br />
* March 21: Futanariobsession, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, is closing its doors. <ref>{{url|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref><br />
* January 1: AutoHotKey's older, IPBoards based forum has been made read-only, in favor of their new forums. Users were migrated but forum posts were not. <ref>{{url|https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/149716-ip-boards-decommission/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://ahkscript.org/foundation/history.html}}</ref><br />
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=== 2015 ===<br />
* Date Unknown: [[Picasa]] content will increasingly be killed as [[wikipedia:Google Photos|Google Photos]] was launched on 2015-05-28 and will need users.<br />
* Date Unknown: AOL apparently has plans to kill a bunch of sites, including with [[Joystiq]], [[MyDaily]], and [[ParentDish]].<ref>{{url|http://recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* Date Unknown: Bad Juju Games has filed for bankruptcy, which might mean an end to [[Desura]] and [[Indie Royale]], which hosts a large amount of games not hosted anywhere else (some of which is free), as well as forums and various user-generated content. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
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== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* December 17: [[Tumblr]] nuked all adult content (or what their algorithms thought was adult content<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/carolinethegeek/status/1069712323923726336}}</ref>).<ref>{{URL|https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Sensitive-content}}</ref><br />
* November 5: [https://botbot.me/ BotBot.me], an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* October 10: 品葱 ({{url|https://pin-cong.com/}}) Due to the high quality criticism and reactionary to communism and China, Chinese Communist Party decided to take down it.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* August 1: [http://tindeck.com/ Tindeck] permanently ceased operations on August 1st, 2018, in response to the EU considering changes to Article 13 of the European Union Copyright Directive.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* July 18: [[Looksmax.net]], a red pill and self-improvement forum, has been shut down because the owner's wife demanded him to shut it down after the owner was doxed.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements guideline.gov, the US government's Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality's National Guidelines Clearinghouse, went dark.] It was a government database that one researcher said "was our go-to source, and there is nothing else like it in the world"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. ArchiveTeam archived the whole site in June 2018. It was added to [[ArchiveBot]] again in July to make sure that everything's covered: {{Job|1faxz160pkjk4yhndfizglop6}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com Pick-Up-Artist-Forum.com], with one million posts and 170,000 members, was shut down. "Sorry, this forum is no longer active. The posts/threads you see will remain available to read, however new registrations, posts, threads and any type of update will no longer be allowed. Thanks!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 1: [[Mapzen]] announced on 2 January 2018 that it "will cease operations at the end of January 2018. Our hosted APIs and all related support and services will turn off on February 1, 2018. You will not be charged for API usage in December/January.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources are present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
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=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] close; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* November 8: [[Miiverse]], Nintendo's social network which had a client in the 3DS and WiiU consoles and was also for the most part accessible over a PC web browser, was shut down. While incomplete, a good chunk of the content was unofficially backed up onto [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closes down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/ gets turned off.<br />
* Date unknown: According to akz, self-identified in #archivebot as a moderator of the site, [[Captain Luffy Forums]] will be closing when the hosting expires, as the owner has chosen not to renew it. It finally did so sometime after August 10th.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|http://What.cd/|What.cd}} suddenly shuts down. One of, if not, the largest BitTorrent Music Trackers on the internet. "Due to some recent events, What.CD is shutting down. We are not likely to return any time soon in our current form. All site and user data has been destroyed. So long, and thanks for all the fish."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ends web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shuts down after it is acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware is shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26, and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* October 23: Allmyvideos.net removed all videos and shut down their website for Good. They claimed that this is because their site is no longer profitable enough to run and maintain the website.<br />
* September: Questhub.io is a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} will shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar will shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: Yahoo has announced that is discontinuing support for all legacy versions of Yahoo messenger and on August 5th the servers will be shut down for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, shareware and other software payment processor that started in 1994, shut down with no notice, claiming: "For the past ten years Kagi has been struggling to recover from financial losses due to a supplier fraud situation. We have reduced the debt but the recovery has failed and forced us to close."<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* July 20: Kickasstorrents has been seized and the tor domain is offline as well. Fortunately, Proxies exist that have some of the data cached, but it's only a matter of time before the cache gets deleted or the proxies stop working. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, is shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk] Danish blog site (subproject of Arto).<br />
* May 13: Beatport "will be shutting down the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section."<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store are shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* February 9: Gametrailers officially closed, though the site is still up.<br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] is shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate is shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* July 24: Surfersparadise closes down most of its websites and content, including the Miss Surfersparadise illustration contest, after making an announcement just 11 days prior. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* June 13: Hungarian image hosting service [[keptarad.hu]] goes down with nearly 80,000 (or, according to inner source, 1.6 million) pictures, one week after it was scheduled to.<br />
* June 9: [[Pomf.se]] staff decided to go down with 1.6 million files (and thousands of pastes). Fortunately, they contacted ArchiveTeam and let them get a copy. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* January: Image hosting site Majhost quietly disappeared. Curiously, as of 2017, its whois registration is still renewed regularly. Its LEGO-related counterpart, Brickshelf, remains active.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: Gnome (Gnome Platform, formerly Interclick) and Right Media Exchange (Right Media Inc) is shutdown by Yahoo!.<ref>{{url|http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-shuts-down-right-media-exchange-2015-1}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://adexchanger.com/online-advertising/yahoo-retires-genome-and-right-media-brands-simplifies-around-yahoo-ad-exchange/}}</ref><ref><nowiki>http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/72591025021/introducing-the-new-yahoo-advertising</nowiki> ([https://archive.is/eGAIq archive.today] copy) (direct link blocked by wiki spamfilter)</ref><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
<br />
===2013===<br />
<br />
* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} is no more. The company that bought the website in 2004, Global Gaming League, decided to "move on" after basically running the website into the ground.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* November 18 (and back through 2012): Disney nuked a bunch of online games: Pixie Hollow Online, Cars Online, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Toontown Online. The futures of the large fan forums and an extremely completist wiki are doubtful. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} The Pixie Hollow fan forum specifically announced that they will not be archived, and the Cars Online forum seems to have a similar warning, while the other forums for the shut down games will apparently be migrated into this: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' promises lifetime control of your data and return of your data to loved ones for just $300 for "lifetime", or $30/year. Archive Team says to just say '''No'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* October 21: [[isoHunt]] was always going to shut down after an MPAA settlement. However, it did so earlier than expected to prevent archival efforts, claiming that 95% of torrents were available elsewhere. No mention of the metadata though.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* June 28: Nintendo shuts down all of its WiiConnect24 services, except for the Mii Channel, Wii Shop Channel, Mario Kart Wii Channel, and the Wii Speak Channel.<br />
* June 4: '''Adrenaline Vault''', a video game review site, has this posted on their Facebook profile: "Over the past weekend hackers hit the site with a DoS attack. Everything had been wiped and with no backups, everything was lost. It has been decided that Avault will remain closed. Rest in Peace, Avault."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', an anonymous file upload site, has announced that they are about $2500 in the hole on hosting costs, and that there is possibility of their shutting down if donations do not improve. It stands to reason that there are some files among their database that are worth saving. An attempt to contact the administrator for more information and to be given a dump of the site was made, and he responded saying he'd be happy to rsync a copy of the data after some legal issues have been settled.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* April 20: '''Microsoft Collection Book''', a site dedicated to collecting information about Windows betas, shuts down due to a C&D from Microsoft. It reopened on May 5 as '''The Collection Book'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' and '''all sites under opensolaris.org''', including the site hosting the OpenSolaris source code, were decommissioned by Oracle. OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris and originally created by Sun Microsystems. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, Oracle decided to discontinue open development of the core software, and replaced the OpenSolaris distribution model with the proprietary Solaris Express.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', a major video chat service, shut down. Users were emailed and given the ability to download any recorded videos for 3 weeks in advance of the closing date.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', a Polish video game news portal, was closed in May, and later wiped entirely on October 29. The articles have been retained at the publisher's other video game portal, Polygamia.pl, but the article comments and the forums are gone (It also had user blogs, but they seemed to have been erased much earlier.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, a central distributor of FOSS commit messages to IRC channels, got its database deleted by its web host. There were no backups. It had been running for a decade (although it had changed maintainership a year before).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} by August 17. All of the images themselves (but not the comments) were available to download via torrents, though it is unknown if the torrents are still available. A possibly full torrent dump is available at [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ minuette.net, which hosts the image files on the website]. Currently the most popular/upvoted images are available via another imageboard, Derpibooru, but their copy is incomplete.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} to be closing on July 30, 2012. While the service has only been around for ~2 years it represents a unique look at services for Linked Data, and contains a variety of datasets. Kasabi has a {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* July 1: The Polish social network '''[[wikipedia:Grono.net]]''' has disappeared, replaced by a file hosting service '''grono.net.pl''' on July 1, 2012. Most content from the old site was supposed to be migrated, but, according to a message on the main page, technical difficulties have delayed the migration by one or two weeks. It's getting increasingly late...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* February: Hungarian free hosting provider {{url|1=http://eplanet.hu|2=Eplanet}} stops free service as of February 2012; unknown number of pages disappeared and probably deleted.<br />
* January 19: The popular file hosting service '''Megaupload''' has been shut down in January 2012; with it, '''Megavideo''' too is gone. It was mainly used for copyright infringement, but lots of perfectly regular files were hosted on it.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> and many great/experimental one of a kind tools vanished. Among many others "google sets" that had been around since a long time, "City Tours" some includeing user generated content and the exciting "google squared" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> that was an approach to pass more artificial intelligence to the user than conventional searchengines (compareable to wolframalpha) but seemingly based on a bigger/vast pool of data just like standard google searchresults). Since there is hardly any obvious rationale(?) for closeing down "Google Labs" it pictures google as being either less supportive or even hostile to new inoventions and less responsible with usergenerated content or more secretive about their ongoing projects than one might thought before or than Google might was before indeed. 1 Jan 2011 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' closed on May 3, 2011 and deleted everything on May 31, 2011. Users who heard about the closure were given the options of either transferring their photos and videos over to dotPhoto.com or purchasing a DVD with their content for $15.00.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* April 16: '''[[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]''' shutdown on 16. April 2011 without warning. Ongoing reconstruction Efforts. A lot of Images and Articles are probably lost. (The replacement OhInternet is a very strongly sanitized Version of ED.) <s>ED is claiming that they are in danger of shutting down. Despite the controversial nature of many articles hosted on the wiki, this would be a big loss of historical records.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* March 16: '''Microsoft''' closed '''Windows Live Spaces''' on March 16, 2011. Spaces owners had the option to migrate their blogs to '''WordPress''' or to make copies. As of January 4, 2011, they could no longer edit their existing Spaces.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* February 22: The [[Insurgency Wiki]] is a wiki with a community that created multiple guides and raids for Anonymous, in a similar manner to [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]. It's status has always been unclear, with many mirrors coming and going. But as of Feb. 22, 2012, the last mirror, Partyvan.info, looks like it has some damning database error. Just in case, the Bibliotheca Anonoma has made a full backup, including all available images available.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* January: The wiki hosting site '''wik.is''', hosted by MindTouch, shut down on the first week of January 2011; the explanation being that "in order to continue to support the growing needs of our MindTouch Express users, we are offering MindTouch Cloud", which "opens up additional features and functionality that are not available in Wik.is.". The only way you'd know all that is if you receive a warning e-mail from MindTouch. They offer to keep your site running by "upgrading to our paid Cloud version by {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' was a small social network started as a side venture by CareerBuilder.com in August 2009. It was quietly shutdown November 2010 without much fanfare. At its height it has 100k users.<br />
* October 31: '''isweb lite''', the Japanese GeoCities, shut down on October 31. Thousands of personal homepages of artists and illustrators were deleted forever. A tiny sample of the pages deleted: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* Mid-2010: '''[[JuniorNet]]''', a subscription based online portal for children, was quietly shut down nearly a decade after it dot-bombed and was acquired by former employees.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', once a popular Finnish web site associated with electronic dance music, clubbing/raving, and the other related things was closed in March after been running for years. All the content posted to the forums of the site was, however, obtained and made available by {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* December 6: '''favrd''', a website that aggregated favorite tweets from twitter, abruptly shut down on December 6, 2009 with absolutely no warning, killing off thousands of highlighted entries added by group-consensus over significant months. As a reward for their efforts, founder Dean Allen wrote this helpful message: ''"Alas, stars on Twitter have become mere take-out menus hung on the doors of other restaurants. There are still lots of clever and funny things to read every day, but finding these is no longer a challenge â you already follow your sources. Sites like this one now serve mainly as fuel for emotional up-fuckedness in the guise of a game. Just an idea: next time you see something you like, write the person who made it a note telling them so. Even better, explain why. Take care!"'' Advice to people who want to work with Dean Allen's projects in the future: don't.<br />
* November: '''here.is''' seems to permanently off-line. It ceased to re-direct email for some time ago and as per 11-23-09 it doesn't redirect even URLs any longer.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* October 31: '''Microsoft Encarta''', the online encyclopedia with a 15+ year history, is being shut down. The US version will shut down on October 31, 2009 and the Japanese version on December 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* August 30ish: '''ArchNacho's & TortillaGodzilla's Quality ROMs''', a site that hosted ROMs for NES, SNES, and Genesis games, which has announced its effective death back in January 2006, is now finally completely inaccessible, both on its original domain {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. The Wayback Machine contains a mirror of the site up through August 30, 2007, which is after all updates to the site ceased. All ROMs hosted on QualityRoms are included in the mirror and can be downloaded from there.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> that they are closing up shop on July 13, 2009. Of course, you can still register an account but that's the first thing you're told.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} on June 25, 2009 that they were "simplifying" things and deleting all user-generated photos and videos uploaded by users. They gave everyone '''five days''' to get their photos off, and then extended it to ''twenty days'' from the ensuing hue and cry. The uploaded videos had no way to extract them back.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' became the latest example of Yahoo!'s awesome respect for history and data, announcing the closure of the video hosting and editing site, for June 15, 2009. A software utility has been released to allow you to download the movies from Jumpcut. Otherwise, you are not in great shape - Yahoo says you can move your videos to Flickr, but Flickr cuts off at 90 seconds. A lot of homemade video is going to disappear.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* April 20: '''{{url|1=http://www.coghead.com|2=Coghead}}''', " a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications and a software as a platform 'utility computing' company", announced it had closed up on February 20, 2009, and that the site would go down permanently on April 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|1=http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=349}}</ref>. It did.<br />
* April 17: '''{{url|1=http://furl.net/|2=Furl}}''' was a social bookmarking service that had been around since 2004. It was acquired by Diigo (announced on March 9), allowed people to opt into transferring their bookmarks to Diigo, and shut down on April 17.<ref>blog.diigo.com/2009/03/16/welcome-furl-users/ (link blocked by spam filter)</ref><ref>{{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/09/diigo-buys-web-page-clipping-service-furl-away-from-looksmart/|2=Techcrunch post}}</ref><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* March 31: It doesn't get more ironic than this: '''{{url|1=https://www.upline.com/|2=Upline}}''', a HP-owned online backup service, is being shut down.<ref>{{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10173136-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5}}</ref> ''They almost immediately turned off the backup process,'' and then announced all your restorable data would go offline on March 31, roughly 30 days after announcement. Surprise!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|Yahoo Briefcase]]''', a positively ancient site run by Yahoo that provided you with 25 free megabytes of storage space for your junk, sent a mail to what were likely years-old contact addresses to tell them they had a little more than a month to get their files out, March 30, 2009. After that, the files would be deleted. What, Yahoo doesn't have a spare memory stick to store what must be the amount of files in this service for the next year?<br />
* March 25: '''Yahoo! Farechase''', an airline fare aggregation and searching site, was shut down on March 25, 2009. It had previously been its own company, founded in 1999, and purchased by Yahoo! in 2004. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "a FREE service that lets you download over 3 million songs and videos, legally and safely", pulled up stakes in the night and completely shut down on March 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> Initially, reports indicated it would shut down the website as well as the paper, but a plan was apparently in place to run a "skeleton crew" on an internet-only site, which continues to operate.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' had a combination database and backup failure, losing: "All votes, ever. All member usernames who registered later than around 12 months ago. All member rankings. Your member profile info (e.g., bio, favorite sift, etc.), if any. All activity that happened on the site yesterday, March 11." This is unlikely to kill the site, but an awful lot of data was lost.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', a "citizen journalism" site run by Getty images to allow the uploading of images by citizen journalists and the chance to be licensed to news organizations, announced they would no longer take any new imagery after February 6, 2009, and will shut down completely on March 6, 2009. Some content uploaders "may" be contacted about being absorbed into the main Getty site.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' was redirected to Last.fm. The free music it offered does not seem to have been transferred, however (the band Ancient Teknologi had several tracks available on music.download.com, but only one available on Last.fm). As of 28 February, it claimed to have 111.052 MP3s.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> We're watching to see what happens with the website (and the material, and the newspaper itself). With a 150-year history, there's a lot of backstory, and how this chronicler of history will end up, so too will many others. There is an excellent documentary about the last days of the Rocky Mountain News {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* February 23: '''Windows Live''' shut down the '''MSN Groups''' on February 23. They extended their original date from February 21st to give Group owners the weekend to prepare. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' had a catastrophic disk corruption/failure on January 31, 2009. From the message on the main site: ''"As I evaluate recovery options, I can't provide a certain timeline or prognosis as to to when or to what degree Ma.gnolia or your bookmarks will return; only that this process will take days, not hours."'' Ma.gnolia had an excellent export feature... hope you used it and did the backups they didn't!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, one of the site's heavily used social bookmarking features (somewhat like delicious for images) will remain up for a few weeks to allow users to save their stuff.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|AOL Pictures]]''' said so long on January 9, 2009. To their credit, you can still yank your stuff into other photo services until June 2009. (At least, according to their goodbye letter.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* October 27: '''Digitalrailroad.net''', a photo hosting site, gave their users a 24-hour eviction notice on October 27, 2008. They shut down 10 hours after the 24-hour notice. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: '''Flip.com''', a social network for teenage girls, shut down on December 16, 2008. Users were advised to print out their digital scrapbooks as backups. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' was shut down on December 8, 2008. A lot of people complained about this one, while others thanked the site for shutting down and wished the founder well! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' failed to provide bloggers with the traffic they so desperately desired, and the creator admitted on October 29, 2008 that his 4AM idea may not have been so brilliant. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> The amount of broken hearts and anguish over this move was amazing, and a warning sign to any family-oriented site that encourages families to join up.<br />
** Some of the more anguished fans have gotten together in various forms to recreate VMK, including {{url|1=http://game.myvmk.com/|2=MyVMK}}, {{url|1=http://www.vmkrevisited.com/|2=VMKRevisted}} (a memorial site), and {{url|1=http://www.openvmk.com/|2=OpenVMK}} (although OpenVMK shutdown due to {{url|1=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qTdpgcLUd-Hg6-FZzkVEju4x1aMlhbMNX6snlUNgnOM/|2=internal squabbles}}.)<br />
* February 14: '''[[wikipedia:Think_Secret]]''' was killed by Apple and shut down on February 14, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/12/apple-and-think.html}}</ref><br />
* July 31: '''Social.fm''' couldn't stand up to Last.fm, and died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10005554-36.html}}</ref><br />
* May 15: '''Brijit.com''', a news aggregation site, closed on May 15, 2008. It might be closed for good. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9945059-36.html}}</ref><br />
* February: '''Yahoo! Design''', a showcase of designing and information aesthetics related to the Yahoo! properties, got revised into oblivion in February, 2008 as part of a 1,000 employee layoff. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (Internet Underground Music Archive), of Santa Cruz, California, the actual first website to offer free hosting of bands including MP3 files of music offered by the bands, was mostly archived by John Gilmore before going down. At least one IUMA founder now has a copy of that archive. This ~800GB collection has been [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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* '''[[Berlios.de]]''' <s>will {{url|1=http://www.berlios.de/|2=shut down at end of 2011}}. The site hosts thousands of open source software projects (git, svn, bzr, mailing lists, bug tracking, etc.). {{url|1=http://developer.berlios.de/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2056&group_id=2|2=Instructions for exporting a project.}} Berlios is still open and they are now</s> {{url|1=http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/german-open-source-development-site-berlios-joins-sourceforge|2=partnered with sourceforge}} to keep things running.<br />
* '''[[Citizendium]]''''s finances {{url|1=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-08/News_and_notes|2=constantly cry for money}}. Running a MediaWiki site is cheap and Sanger is not homeless, hence it's expected to survive. [[WikiTeam]] archives it on a regular basis.<br />
* '''[[Delicious]]'''<ref>{{url|http://www.delicious.com}}</ref> will be {{url|1=http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/16/delicious.php|2=shutting down soon}}. The whole team was let go yesterday - 15 December 2010. {{url|1=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/16/2220225/Yahoo-To-Close-Delicious|2=Slashdot link}}. Delicious was acquired from Yahoo! in early 2011 by AVOS however all the prior content is gone.<br />
* '''Cli.gs''', another URL shortening service, announced closure: "On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics."<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/cligs-shutting-down}}</ref> In December 2009, it was announced that the "social bookmarking" site Mister Wong has acquired cli.gs and are keeping it running.<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/mister-wong-acquires-cligs}}</ref> All aboard the [[TinyURL]] project. <br />
* '''{{url|1=https://duck.co/topic/soft-launch-of-the-new-forum|2=Duck.co}}''', the official DuckDuckGo community forums, transitioned to their {{url|1=https://dukgo.com|2=own platform}} and moved all posts over from their old Zoho forum.<br />
* '''[[Earbits]]''' bites the dust on June 16, 2014, but comes back to life on June 19th, 2014. In between, we grabbed ~130GB of images and ~130k MP3s.<br />
* '''{{URL|http://www.filefront.com/|FileFront}}''' is closing up shop <ref>{{url|http://farewell.filefront.com/}}</ref>. The site will be suspended on March 30, 2009. 1.5 Million files and 48+ TB of space gone just like that. As of April 2, 2009, it looks like there may have been an 11th hour reprieve for Filefront: according to a message reportedly from the original founders of the service<ref>{{url|http://welcome.filefront.com/}}</ref>, the site has been re-acquired by them in order to prevent its proposed shuttering. On 2010-11-30, FileFront rebranded to [[GameFront]]<ref>{{URL|http://www.gamefront.com/welcome-to-the-gamefront-launch-center/}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[Google Video]]''' threatened to remove all hosted videos with two weeks' notice in April 2011. It backed down after criticism and an archive effort by the Archive Team.<br />
* '''Home of the Underdogs''' went under on Feb 9th<ref>{{url|http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2009/02/13/rip-hotu/}}</ref>. There has been some passed along words by the site's owner, now working at an NGO, that an attempt to bring it back may happen. (She definitely has backups of the site.) A community-driven effort to revive the site is currently underway <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org}}</ref>. Backups were restored, and the remaining files (1,000+) collected from the community. As of Jan 4th 2010, HOTU is reporting that files are back online <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org/component/content/article/25133-files-online-and-import-done}}</ref><br />
* '''[[JPG Magazine]]''' announced it would shut down on January 5, 2009 <ref>{{url|http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/01/jpg_magazine_says_goodbye.html}}</ref>, but the site lives {{url|1=http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/02/an_exciting_future_for_jpg.html|2=lives on under new ownership}}. Feel free to download the {{url|http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4624703/|torrent}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{url|http://kiwifarms.net/|Kiwi Farms}}, a notorious forum that mocks [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolcow "lolcows"], was shut down on January 20, 2017 without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later.<br />
* '''[[Linux Journal]]''': Announced on 1 December 2017 that it is ceasing publication.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication}}</ref> Announced on 1 January 2018 that it has been unexpectedly rescued.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-new-year-linux-journal-alive}}</ref><br />
* '''[[MobyGames]]''', the largest database of old game releases on the net, with huge amount of content found nowhere else. Was bought by [[GameFly]] in 2010 and received a new site design in September 2013, which made almost all contributors emigrate. Many site features have disappeared or became broken in the new design, and their large database of cover art and screenshots had problems loading. In December 2013, the site was bought by {{url|1=http://blueflamelabs.com/|2=Blue Flame Labs}}, who have restored the old site design and managed to draw back pretty much all the contributors. It seems that the site is going back to full health again. <br />
* {{url|https://nyaa.se|'''[[nyaa]]'''}} shut down at May 2 2017 due to copyright problem, and {{url|https://nyaa.si|revival at 10 day after}}.<br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* Video host '''[[Viddler]]''' announces in an {{url|1=http://mad.ly/5ae274?pact=20251445218&fe=1|2=e-mail newsletter}} that they're shutting down free accounts on March 11, 2014. But Archive Team kicked in and began to suck up the place until the owners told us to stop. Videos won't be permanently deleted.<br />
* '''[[WebCite]]''' &ndash; Has a habit of crying for money, threatening it will stop accepting submissions. Since October 2013, the Wayback Machine archives pages on demand, hence there's no reason to use a site like WebCite that declares self at risk. It's expected that they'll send their data to Internet Archive if they ever really have to shut down.<br />
* '''[[Word Count Journal]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wordcountjournal.com/about}}) is shutting down on June 11, 2011 '''UPDATE''' The site is fully up and running. (checked on October 21, 2011) '''UPDATE2''': Non-functional, but the website is up with this notice "Word Count Journal is no longer being supported." (checked on January 26th, 2012)<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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=== Tragic ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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=== Humorous ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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[[Category:Archive Team]]</div>Zeronethttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google%2B&diff=36010Google+2019-04-02T17:49:45Z<p>Zeronet: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = Google+<br />
| logo = Google+ logo.png<br />
| image = Google+ - 3-22-19.png<br />
| URL = https://plus.google.com/<br />
| project_status = {{offline}} <small>(consumer version)</small><br />
| archiving_status = {{partiallysaved}} (98%)<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/googleplus-grab googleplus-grab]<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/googleplus/ googleplus]<br />
| irc = googleminus<br />
}}<br />
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'''Google+''' (Google Plus) was [[Google]]'s social media platform. The consumer version shut down on 2019-04-02.<br />
<br />
== Shutdown of the consumer platform ==<br />
On October 8, 2018, Google announced that they would shut down Google+ for consumers over the next 10 months, i.e. by the end of August 2019<ref>{{URL|https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/}}</ref>:<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
<big>Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+</big><br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
At the beginning of this year, we started an effort called Project Strobe—a root-and-branch review of third-party developer access to Google account and Android device data and of our philosophy around apps’ data access. This project looked at the operation of our privacy controls, platforms where users were not engaging with our APIs because of concerns around data privacy, areas where developers may have been granted overly broad access, and other areas in which our policies should be tightened.<br />
<br />
'''Finding 1: There are significant challenges in creating and maintaining a successful Google+ product that meets consumers’ expectations.'''<br />
<br />
'''Action 1: We are shutting down Google+ for consumers.'''<br />
<br />
Over the years we’ve received feedback that people want to better understand how to control the data they choose to share with apps on Google+. So as part of Project Strobe, one of our first priorities was to closely review all the APIs associated with Google+.<br />
<br />
This review crystallized what we’ve known for a while: that while our engineering teams have put a lot of effort and dedication into building Google+ over the years, it has not achieved broad consumer or developer adoption, and has seen limited user interaction with apps. The consumer version of Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds.<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
The review did highlight the significant challenges in creating and maintaining a successful Google+ that meets consumers’ expectations. Given these challenges and the very low usage of the consumer version of Google+, we decided to sunset the consumer version of Google+.<br />
<br />
To give people a full opportunity to transition, we will implement this wind-down over a 10-month period, slated for completion by the end of next August. Over the coming months, we will provide consumers with additional information, including ways they can download and migrate their data.<br />
<br />
At the same time, we have many enterprise customers who are finding great value in using Google+ within their companies. Our review showed that Google+ is better suited as an enterprise product where co-workers can engage in internal discussions on a secure corporate social network. Enterprise customers can set common access rules, and use central controls, for their entire organization. We’ve decided to focus on our enterprise efforts and will be launching new features purpose-built for businesses. We will share more information in the coming days.<br />
<br />
...<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
On 10 December 2018, in the wake of another security issue, Google announced that the shutdown was being moved to April 2019 and that the API would shut down "within the next 90 days"<ref>{{URL|https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus/}}</ref>:<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
In October, we announced that we’d be sunsetting the consumer version of Google+ and its APIs because of the significant challenges involved in maintaining a successful product that meets consumers’ expectations, as well as the platform’s low usage.<br />
<br />
We’ve recently determined that some users were impacted by a software update introduced in November that contained a bug affecting a Google+ API. We discovered this bug as part of our standard and ongoing testing procedures and fixed it within a week of it being introduced. No third party compromised our systems, and we have no evidence that the app developers that inadvertently had this access for six days were aware of it or misused it in any way.<br />
<br />
With the discovery of this new bug, we have decided to expedite the shut-down of all Google+ APIs; this will occur within the next 90 days. In addition, we have also decided to accelerate the sunsetting of consumer Google+ from August 2019 to April 2019. While we recognize there are implications for developers, we want to ensure the protection of our users.<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
We will sunset all Google+ APIs in the next 90 days. Developers can expect to hear more from us on this topic in the coming days, and can stay informed by continuing to check the Google+ developer page.<br />
<br />
We have also decided to accelerate sunsetting consumer Google+, bringing it forward from August 2019 to April 2019. We want to give users ample opportunity to transition off of consumer Google+, and over the coming months, we will continue to provide users with additional information, including ways they can safely and securely download and migrate their data.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
Another announcement was sent out through email on 2019 February 1st.<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
'''You've received this email because you have a consumer (personal) Google+ account or you manage a Google+ page.'''<br />
<br />
In December 2018, we <a href="https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus">announced</a> our decision to shut down Google+ for consumers in April 2019 due to low usage and challenges involved in maintaining a successful product that meets consumers' expectations. We want to thank you for being part of Google+ and provide next steps, including how to download your photos and other content.<br />
<br />
'''On April 2nd, your Google+ account and any Google+ pages you created will be shut down and we will begin deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts'''. Photos and videos from Google+ in your Album Archive and your Google+ pages will also be deleted. You can <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1045788">download and save</a> your content, just make sure to do so before April. Note that photos and videos backed up in Google Photos will not be deleted.<br />
<br />
The process of deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts, Google+ Pages, and Album Archive will take a few months, and content may remain through this time. For example, users may still see parts of their Google+ account via activity log and some consumer Google+ content may remain visible to G Suite users until consumer Google+ is deleted.<br />
<br />
'''As early as February 4th, you will no longer be able to create new Google+ profiles, pages, communities or events.'''<br />
<br />
See the full <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723">FAQ</a> for more details and updates leading up to the shutdown.<br />
<br />
'''If you're a Google+ Community owner or moderator''', you may <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1045788">download and save</a> your data for your Google+ Community. Starting early March 2019, additional data will be available for download, including author, body, and photos for every community post in a public community. <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1045788#communities">Learn more</a><br />
<br />
'''If you sign in to sites and apps using the Google+ Sign-in button''', these buttons will stop working in the coming weeks but in some cases may be replaced by a Google Sign-in button. You'll still be able to sign in with your Google Account wherever you see Google Sign-in buttons. <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723#signin">Learn more</a><br />
<br />
'''If you've used Google+ for comments on your own or other sites''', this feature will be removed from Blogger by February 4th and other sites by March 7th. All your Google+ comments on all sites will be deleted starting April 2, 2019. <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723#blogger">Learn more</a><br />
<br />
'''If you're a G Suite customer''', Google+ for your G Suite account should remain active. Contact your <a href="https://support.google.com/a/answer/6208960"> G Suite administrator</a> for more details. You can also expect a new look and new features soon. <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/new-enterprise-grade-features-in-googleplus-help-businesses-drive-collaboration">Learn more</a><br />
<br />
'''If you're a developer''' using Google+ APIs or Google+ Sign-in, click <a href="https://developers.google.com/+/api-shutdown">here</a> to see how this will impact you.<br />
<br />
From all of us on the Google+ team, thank you for making Google+ such a special place. We are grateful for the talented group of artists, community builders, and thought leaders who made Google+ their home. It would not have been the same without your passion and dedication.<br />
<br />
Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043<br />
<br />
You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google+ Page, product or account.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The shutdown began on 2019-04-02 around 15:40 UTC with pages being replaced gradually by either a "Google+ is no longer available" message or a redirect to the Google login. By 16:55 UTC, virtually every request was being redirected to the login page.<br />
<br />
== How can I help? ==<br />
<br />
Download and fire up your [[Warrior]]! Then select Google+. Better yet, select Archive Team's Choice. If you have an old Warrior installation, note that version 2 of the Warrior appliance is no longer functional as a result of outdated SSL support and has been replaced by version 3. You can download version 3 by following the Warrior link and clicking the new appliance download link.<br />
<br />
Alternatively for advanced users, you can run the scripts manually by heading to https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/googleplus-grab and following the instructions in the readme.<br />
<br />
Don't forget to '''[https://archive.org/donate/ donate to the Internet Archive]''' who will be hosting these files. Disk space is cheap but maintaining them is not!<br />
<br />
== Read more ==<br />
* https://www.reddit.com/r/googleplus/comments/9nph98/google_mass_migration_community_on_g_helping<br />
* https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page<br />
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* [[Google+]]: Google finally realised they failed. Shutting down by April 2019. Archive Team's largest grab to date with 1.3 PiB ''(~1337 TiB)'' saved and finished. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|googleminus}}'''.<br />
* [[Flickr]]: <s>[[Yahoo!]]</s> SmugMug decided to kill it after finding Yahoo!'s plans to do so before they were bought by Verizon. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|flickrfckr}}'''.<br />
* [[Tumblr]]: [[Yahoo!]] considered killing it, now Yahoo has been acquired and Verizon declared war on NSFW blogs. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|tumbledown}}'''.<br />
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* [[NewsGrabber]]: Saving all news articles. Help with server power or by finding more news sites. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|newsgrabber}}'''.<br />
* [[URLTeam]]: URL shorteners were a fucking awful idea. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|urlteam}}'''.<br />
* [[WikiTeam]]: Saving wikis dumps (XML). And their external links for the Wayback Machine (WARC) as well as exporting MediaWiki databases. Permanent effort, [https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/wiki/Tutorial#I_have_no_shell_access_to_server everyone can help] (you choose the size of your downloads). '''IRC Channel {{IRC|wikiteam}}'''.<br />
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=== Scripts only ===<br />
* [[FTP]]: Download all the FTP sites! '''IRC Channel {{IRC|effteepee}}'''.<br />
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== Manual projects ==<br />
* [[ArchiveBot]]: For those with lots of disk space, bandwidth and long-term commitment. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|archivebot}}'''.<br />
* [[FTP]]: Help us find all FTP sites! '''IRC Channel {{IRC|effteepee}}'''.<br />
* [[INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK]]: Grab a slice of the big cake of [[Internet Archive|The Archive]]! '''IRC Channel {{IRC|internetarchive.bak}}'''.<br />
* [[ISP Hosting]]: Finding ISP web hosting services before the Grim Reaper finds them. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|webroasting}}'''.<br />
* [[Project Newsletter]]: Archiving e-newsletters, currently in development. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|projectnewsletter}}'''.<br />
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* [[Angelfire]]: Angelfire is a web hosting service that contains big chunks of early WWW history and has no proper backup. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|angelonfire}}'''.<br />
* [[JamiiForums]]: the Tanzanian government would like this gone. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|jammedforums}}'''.<br />
* [[GitHub]]: Embraced-uh, I mean, bought by Microsoft. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|getgit}}'''.<br />
* [[Imgur]]: Image hoster decided that using it for hosting images is not permitted. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|imgone}}'''.<br />
* [[LiveJournal]]: Very old, widely regarded as in decline, and has a lot of important stuff buried in it. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|recordedjournal}}'''.<br />
* [[Ownlog]]: Ownlog is losing popularity and support from its owners. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|pwnlog}}'''.<br />
* [[Reddit]]: Banning communities that generate bad PR for Reddit Inc. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|shreddit}}'''.<br />
* [[The Pirate Bay]]: Recently came back up, grabbing an archive for sanity's sake. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|yarharfiddlededee}}'''.<br />
* [[Valhalla]]: Where to store what even the [[Internet Archive]] doesn't have space for? '''IRC Channel {{IRC|huntinggrounds}}'''.<br />
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== Recently finished projects ==<br />
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* [[GeoCities Japan]]: It's GeoCities all over again... The Japanese version shuts down in March 2019. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|notagain}}'''.<br />
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== Hiatus / Missed the Mark ==<br />
* [[Textream]]: [[Yahoo!]] Japan killing yet another platform... Large Japanese discussion forum going down in early January 2019 (?). '''IRC Channel {{IRC|textreamer}}'''.<br />
* [[Google News Archive]]: Let's store all newspapers at Google, WCGW? '''IRC Channel {{IRC|papersplease}}'''.<br />
* [[Quizlet]]: Flashcards and other learning tools '''IRC Channel {{IRC|quizletusin}}'''.<br />
* [[yuku]]: Lately yuku is very unstable and hosting thousands of forums. Project currently paused. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|archiveteam}}'''.<br />
* [[Audit2014|Audit 2014]]: It's time to verify our shit. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|auditteam}}'''. THIS PROJECT IS ON HIATUS AND WILL BE RETURNED TO AS A AUDIT2018.<br />
* [[Google Groups]]: "Gone within a year" ([[User:Jscott|SketchCow]], 2016-06-07).<br />
* [[The Escapist]]: Staff activity dwindling due to layoffs, remaining supporters are doing it for free. '''IRC Channel TBD'''.<br />
* [[YTMND]]: Supposed to be "shutting down soon" in 2016, but still up 2 years later. '''IRC Channel TBD'''.<br />
* [[DevPort]]: This [http://developerportfolio.com/ portfolio SaaS provider] has [http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/65135/need-some-help-saas-provider-is-dead-but-my-site-is-still-up-how-should-i-grab-it reportedly] been having infrastructure issues, and removed their social media accounts. Possible impending shutdown.<br />
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<small>ArchiveTeam uses the EFnet IRC network – irc://irc.efnet.org – webchat: http://chat.efnet.org:9090 – [[IRC|More info]]</small></div>Zeronethttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Talk:Google%2B&diff=36008Talk:Google+2019-04-02T17:36:36Z<p>Zeronet: /* Any plan to collect G+ community posts? */</p>
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<div>I wanted to start a discussion regarding the merits and flaws of archiving Google+. Obviously it's a big piece of internet history and it wasn't crawled even by google (at least not externally) so all the discourse will disappear when it closes. However there a huge amount of "noise", just chatter, that isn't worth archive and there's now heuristic for picking one over the other. Perhaps post length?<br />
<br />
Please consider possible solutions. I think this bit of internet history deserves saving.<br />
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== Any plan to collect manually dump? ==<br />
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The dump by Google official takeout. [[User:Zeronet|Zeronet]] ([[User talk:Zeronet|talk]]) 17:36, 2 April 2019 (UTC)</div>Zeronethttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google%2B&diff=36006Google+2019-04-02T17:27:15Z<p>Zeronet: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = Google+<br />
| logo = Google+ logo.png<br />
| image = Google+ - 3-22-19.png<br />
| URL = https://plus.google.com/<br />
| project_status = {{offline}} <small>(consumer version)</small><br />
| archiving_status = {{partiallysaved}} (99%)<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/googleplus-grab googleplus-grab]<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/googleplus/ googleplus]<br />
| irc = googleminus<br />
}}<br />
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'''Google+''' (Google Plus) is [[Google]]'s social media platform. The consumer version is planned to shut down in April 2019, and the API will go down before mid-March 2019.<br />
<br />
== Shutdown of the consumer platform ==<br />
On October 8, 2018, Google announced that they would shut down Google+ for consumers over the next 10 months, i.e. by the end of August 2019<ref>{{URL|https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/}}</ref>:<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
<big>Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+</big><br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
At the beginning of this year, we started an effort called Project Strobe—a root-and-branch review of third-party developer access to Google account and Android device data and of our philosophy around apps’ data access. This project looked at the operation of our privacy controls, platforms where users were not engaging with our APIs because of concerns around data privacy, areas where developers may have been granted overly broad access, and other areas in which our policies should be tightened.<br />
<br />
'''Finding 1: There are significant challenges in creating and maintaining a successful Google+ product that meets consumers’ expectations.'''<br />
<br />
'''Action 1: We are shutting down Google+ for consumers.'''<br />
<br />
Over the years we’ve received feedback that people want to better understand how to control the data they choose to share with apps on Google+. So as part of Project Strobe, one of our first priorities was to closely review all the APIs associated with Google+.<br />
<br />
This review crystallized what we’ve known for a while: that while our engineering teams have put a lot of effort and dedication into building Google+ over the years, it has not achieved broad consumer or developer adoption, and has seen limited user interaction with apps. The consumer version of Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds.<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
The review did highlight the significant challenges in creating and maintaining a successful Google+ that meets consumers’ expectations. Given these challenges and the very low usage of the consumer version of Google+, we decided to sunset the consumer version of Google+.<br />
<br />
To give people a full opportunity to transition, we will implement this wind-down over a 10-month period, slated for completion by the end of next August. Over the coming months, we will provide consumers with additional information, including ways they can download and migrate their data.<br />
<br />
At the same time, we have many enterprise customers who are finding great value in using Google+ within their companies. Our review showed that Google+ is better suited as an enterprise product where co-workers can engage in internal discussions on a secure corporate social network. Enterprise customers can set common access rules, and use central controls, for their entire organization. We’ve decided to focus on our enterprise efforts and will be launching new features purpose-built for businesses. We will share more information in the coming days.<br />
<br />
...<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
On 10 December 2018, in the wake of another security issue, Google announced that the shutdown was being moved to April 2019 and that the API would shut down "within the next 90 days"<ref>{{URL|https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus/}}</ref>:<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
In October, we announced that we’d be sunsetting the consumer version of Google+ and its APIs because of the significant challenges involved in maintaining a successful product that meets consumers’ expectations, as well as the platform’s low usage.<br />
<br />
We’ve recently determined that some users were impacted by a software update introduced in November that contained a bug affecting a Google+ API. We discovered this bug as part of our standard and ongoing testing procedures and fixed it within a week of it being introduced. No third party compromised our systems, and we have no evidence that the app developers that inadvertently had this access for six days were aware of it or misused it in any way.<br />
<br />
With the discovery of this new bug, we have decided to expedite the shut-down of all Google+ APIs; this will occur within the next 90 days. In addition, we have also decided to accelerate the sunsetting of consumer Google+ from August 2019 to April 2019. While we recognize there are implications for developers, we want to ensure the protection of our users.<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
We will sunset all Google+ APIs in the next 90 days. Developers can expect to hear more from us on this topic in the coming days, and can stay informed by continuing to check the Google+ developer page.<br />
<br />
We have also decided to accelerate sunsetting consumer Google+, bringing it forward from August 2019 to April 2019. We want to give users ample opportunity to transition off of consumer Google+, and over the coming months, we will continue to provide users with additional information, including ways they can safely and securely download and migrate their data.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
Another announcement was sent out through email on 2019 February 1st.<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
'''You've received this email because you have a consumer (personal) Google+ account or you manage a Google+ page.'''<br />
<br />
In December 2018, we <a href="https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus">announced</a> our decision to shut down Google+ for consumers in April 2019 due to low usage and challenges involved in maintaining a successful product that meets consumers' expectations. We want to thank you for being part of Google+ and provide next steps, including how to download your photos and other content.<br />
<br />
'''On April 2nd, your Google+ account and any Google+ pages you created will be shut down and we will begin deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts'''. Photos and videos from Google+ in your Album Archive and your Google+ pages will also be deleted. You can <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1045788">download and save</a> your content, just make sure to do so before April. Note that photos and videos backed up in Google Photos will not be deleted.<br />
<br />
The process of deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts, Google+ Pages, and Album Archive will take a few months, and content may remain through this time. For example, users may still see parts of their Google+ account via activity log and some consumer Google+ content may remain visible to G Suite users until consumer Google+ is deleted.<br />
<br />
'''As early as February 4th, you will no longer be able to create new Google+ profiles, pages, communities or events.'''<br />
<br />
See the full <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723">FAQ</a> for more details and updates leading up to the shutdown.<br />
<br />
'''If you're a Google+ Community owner or moderator''', you may <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1045788">download and save</a> your data for your Google+ Community. Starting early March 2019, additional data will be available for download, including author, body, and photos for every community post in a public community. <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1045788#communities">Learn more</a><br />
<br />
'''If you sign in to sites and apps using the Google+ Sign-in button''', these buttons will stop working in the coming weeks but in some cases may be replaced by a Google Sign-in button. You'll still be able to sign in with your Google Account wherever you see Google Sign-in buttons. <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723#signin">Learn more</a><br />
<br />
'''If you've used Google+ for comments on your own or other sites''', this feature will be removed from Blogger by February 4th and other sites by March 7th. All your Google+ comments on all sites will be deleted starting April 2, 2019. <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723#blogger">Learn more</a><br />
<br />
'''If you're a G Suite customer''', Google+ for your G Suite account should remain active. Contact your <a href="https://support.google.com/a/answer/6208960"> G Suite administrator</a> for more details. You can also expect a new look and new features soon. <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/new-enterprise-grade-features-in-googleplus-help-businesses-drive-collaboration">Learn more</a><br />
<br />
'''If you're a developer''' using Google+ APIs or Google+ Sign-in, click <a href="https://developers.google.com/+/api-shutdown">here</a> to see how this will impact you.<br />
<br />
From all of us on the Google+ team, thank you for making Google+ such a special place. We are grateful for the talented group of artists, community builders, and thought leaders who made Google+ their home. It would not have been the same without your passion and dedication.<br />
<br />
Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043<br />
<br />
You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google+ Page, product or account.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
== How can I help? ==<br />
<br />
Download and fire up your [[Warrior]]! Then select Google+. Better yet, select Archive Team's Choice. If you have an old Warrior installation, note that version 2 of the Warrior appliance is no longer functional as a result of outdated SSL support and has been replaced by version 3. You can download version 3 by following the Warrior link and clicking the new appliance download link.<br />
<br />
Alternatively for advanced users, you can run the scripts manually by heading to https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/googleplus-grab and following the instructions in the readme.<br />
<br />
Don't forget to '''[https://archive.org/donate/ donate to the Internet Archive]''' who will be hosting these files. Disk space is cheap but maintaining them is not!<br />
<br />
== Read more ==<br />
* https://www.reddit.com/r/googleplus/comments/9nph98/google_mass_migration_community_on_g_helping<br />
* https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page<br />
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== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = Google+<br />
| logo = Google+ logo.png<br />
| image = Google+ - 3-22-19.png<br />
| URL = https://plus.google.com/<br />
| project_status = {{closing}} <small>(consumer version)</small><br />
| archiving_status = {{inprogress}}<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/googleplus-grab googleplus-grab]<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/googleplus/ googleplus]<br />
| irc = googleminus<br />
}}<br />
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'''Google+''' (Google Plus) is [[Google]]'s social media platform. The consumer version is planned to shut down in April 2019, and the API will go down before mid-March 2019.<br />
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== Shutdown of the consumer platform ==<br />
On October 8, 2018, Google announced that they would shut down Google+ for consumers over the next 10 months, i.e. by the end of August 2019<ref>{{URL|https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/}}</ref>:<br />
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<blockquote><br />
<big>Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+</big><br />
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...<br />
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At the beginning of this year, we started an effort called Project Strobe—a root-and-branch review of third-party developer access to Google account and Android device data and of our philosophy around apps’ data access. This project looked at the operation of our privacy controls, platforms where users were not engaging with our APIs because of concerns around data privacy, areas where developers may have been granted overly broad access, and other areas in which our policies should be tightened.<br />
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'''Finding 1: There are significant challenges in creating and maintaining a successful Google+ product that meets consumers’ expectations.'''<br />
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'''Action 1: We are shutting down Google+ for consumers.'''<br />
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Over the years we’ve received feedback that people want to better understand how to control the data they choose to share with apps on Google+. So as part of Project Strobe, one of our first priorities was to closely review all the APIs associated with Google+.<br />
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This review crystallized what we’ve known for a while: that while our engineering teams have put a lot of effort and dedication into building Google+ over the years, it has not achieved broad consumer or developer adoption, and has seen limited user interaction with apps. The consumer version of Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds.<br />
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...<br />
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The review did highlight the significant challenges in creating and maintaining a successful Google+ that meets consumers’ expectations. Given these challenges and the very low usage of the consumer version of Google+, we decided to sunset the consumer version of Google+.<br />
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To give people a full opportunity to transition, we will implement this wind-down over a 10-month period, slated for completion by the end of next August. Over the coming months, we will provide consumers with additional information, including ways they can download and migrate their data.<br />
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At the same time, we have many enterprise customers who are finding great value in using Google+ within their companies. Our review showed that Google+ is better suited as an enterprise product where co-workers can engage in internal discussions on a secure corporate social network. Enterprise customers can set common access rules, and use central controls, for their entire organization. We’ve decided to focus on our enterprise efforts and will be launching new features purpose-built for businesses. We will share more information in the coming days.<br />
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...<br />
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On 10 December 2018, in the wake of another security issue, Google announced that the shutdown was being moved to April 2019 and that the API would shut down "within the next 90 days"<ref>{{URL|https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus/}}</ref>:<br />
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<blockquote><br />
In October, we announced that we’d be sunsetting the consumer version of Google+ and its APIs because of the significant challenges involved in maintaining a successful product that meets consumers’ expectations, as well as the platform’s low usage.<br />
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We’ve recently determined that some users were impacted by a software update introduced in November that contained a bug affecting a Google+ API. We discovered this bug as part of our standard and ongoing testing procedures and fixed it within a week of it being introduced. No third party compromised our systems, and we have no evidence that the app developers that inadvertently had this access for six days were aware of it or misused it in any way.<br />
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With the discovery of this new bug, we have decided to expedite the shut-down of all Google+ APIs; this will occur within the next 90 days. In addition, we have also decided to accelerate the sunsetting of consumer Google+ from August 2019 to April 2019. While we recognize there are implications for developers, we want to ensure the protection of our users.<br />
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...<br />
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We will sunset all Google+ APIs in the next 90 days. Developers can expect to hear more from us on this topic in the coming days, and can stay informed by continuing to check the Google+ developer page.<br />
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We have also decided to accelerate sunsetting consumer Google+, bringing it forward from August 2019 to April 2019. We want to give users ample opportunity to transition off of consumer Google+, and over the coming months, we will continue to provide users with additional information, including ways they can safely and securely download and migrate their data.<br />
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Another announcement was sent out through email on 2019 February 1st.<br />
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<blockquote><br />
'''You've received this email because you have a consumer (personal) Google+ account or you manage a Google+ page.'''<br />
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In December 2018, we <a href="https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus">announced</a> our decision to shut down Google+ for consumers in April 2019 due to low usage and challenges involved in maintaining a successful product that meets consumers' expectations. We want to thank you for being part of Google+ and provide next steps, including how to download your photos and other content.<br />
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'''On April 2nd, your Google+ account and any Google+ pages you created will be shut down and we will begin deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts'''. Photos and videos from Google+ in your Album Archive and your Google+ pages will also be deleted. You can <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1045788">download and save</a> your content, just make sure to do so before April. Note that photos and videos backed up in Google Photos will not be deleted.<br />
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The process of deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts, Google+ Pages, and Album Archive will take a few months, and content may remain through this time. For example, users may still see parts of their Google+ account via activity log and some consumer Google+ content may remain visible to G Suite users until consumer Google+ is deleted.<br />
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'''As early as February 4th, you will no longer be able to create new Google+ profiles, pages, communities or events.'''<br />
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See the full <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723">FAQ</a> for more details and updates leading up to the shutdown.<br />
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'''If you're a Google+ Community owner or moderator''', you may <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1045788">download and save</a> your data for your Google+ Community. Starting early March 2019, additional data will be available for download, including author, body, and photos for every community post in a public community. <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1045788#communities">Learn more</a><br />
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'''If you sign in to sites and apps using the Google+ Sign-in button''', these buttons will stop working in the coming weeks but in some cases may be replaced by a Google Sign-in button. You'll still be able to sign in with your Google Account wherever you see Google Sign-in buttons. <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723#signin">Learn more</a><br />
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'''If you've used Google+ for comments on your own or other sites''', this feature will be removed from Blogger by February 4th and other sites by March 7th. All your Google+ comments on all sites will be deleted starting April 2, 2019. <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723#blogger">Learn more</a><br />
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'''If you're a G Suite customer''', Google+ for your G Suite account should remain active. Contact your <a href="https://support.google.com/a/answer/6208960"> G Suite administrator</a> for more details. You can also expect a new look and new features soon. <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/new-enterprise-grade-features-in-googleplus-help-businesses-drive-collaboration">Learn more</a><br />
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'''If you're a developer''' using Google+ APIs or Google+ Sign-in, click <a href="https://developers.google.com/+/api-shutdown">here</a> to see how this will impact you.<br />
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From all of us on the Google+ team, thank you for making Google+ such a special place. We are grateful for the talented group of artists, community builders, and thought leaders who made Google+ their home. It would not have been the same without your passion and dedication.<br />
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Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043<br />
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You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google+ Page, product or account.<br />
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== How can I help? ==<br />
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Download and fire up your [[Warrior]]! Then select Google+. Better yet, select Archive Team's Choice. If you have an old Warrior installation, note that version 2 of the Warrior appliance is no longer functional as a result of outdated SSL support and has been replaced by version 3. You can download version 3 by following the Warrior link and clicking the new appliance download link.<br />
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Alternatively for advanced users, you can run the scripts manually by heading to https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/googleplus-grab and following the instructions in the readme.<br />
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Don't forget to '''[https://archive.org/donate/ donate to the Internet Archive]''' who will be hosting these files. Disk space is cheap but maintaining them is not!<br />
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== Read more ==<br />
* https://www.reddit.com/r/googleplus/comments/9nph98/google_mass_migration_community_on_g_helping<br />
* https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page<br />
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== References ==<br />
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{{Navigation box}}</div>Zeronethttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Talk:Google%2B&diff=35837Talk:Google+2019-03-29T16:25:37Z<p>Zeronet: /* Any plan to collect G+ community posts? */ new section</p>
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<div>I wanted to start a discussion regarding the merits and flaws of archiving Google+. Obviously it's a big piece of internet history and it wasn't crawled even by google (at least not externally) so all the discourse will disappear when it closes. However there a huge amount of "noise", just chatter, that isn't worth archive and there's now heuristic for picking one over the other. Perhaps post length?<br />
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Please consider possible solutions. I think this bit of internet history deserves saving.<br />
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== Any plan to collect G+ community posts? ==<br />
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The dump by owners and moderators via Google official takeout.</div>Zeronethttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Deathwatch&diff=35833Deathwatch2019-03-29T09:20:59Z<p>Zeronet: /* 2018 */</p>
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<div>The '''Deathwatch''' or '''Watchlist''' is a central indicator of websites and networks that are shutting down and serves as an indicator of what happened to particular sites that shut down quickly.<br />
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New sites should be added in chronological order, newest death date first. Forward-looking death dates should be added to the first list only. Sites large enough to warrant additional information will receive a dedicated page, linked from here and on [[:Category:Closing projects]].<br />
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(The content of the Getting Things Done table, merged with the In Progress table, can now be found on [[Small projects]].)<br />
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== Pre-emptive Alarmbells (Likely To Die) ==<br />
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=== Sunset Happy ===<br />
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*Oath/Verizon<br />
** Archive Team officially proclaims '''[[Yahoo!]]''' the least trustable host and its arch-enemy. Prove us different, Yahooligans. Or... don't. Expect anything in [[wikipedia:List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Yahoo!]] and [[wikipedia:List_of_Yahoo!-owned_sites_and_services]] to shutdown (if it hasn't already).<br />
**Please follow the feeds! {{url|https://twitter.com/YahooVictims}} & {{url|http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/03733117766037168292/11115209096644139952}}<br />
** [[AOL]] has decided to follow in Yahoo's footsteps by mass-closing websites at an alarmingly fast rate. Be careful not to leave any important data with them!<br />
* [[Nokia]] has recently been shutting down services at an alarmingly fast rate. Back up your data, Nokia users!<br />
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=== Just When You Least Expect It ===<br />
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Archive Team keeps a list of '''[[Fire_Drill|"healthy sites"]]''' that could be fine today and not so hot tomorrow. We focus on ways to back your personal data off these sites so you don't put yourself at unnecessary risk.<br />
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=== Other endangered species and misc ideas ===<br />
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* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w Louis Rossmann's Youtube channel]. He released a video on June 30th with strong hints his channel and business were being shutdown because of reasons he was not able to state. <br />
** He runs/ran a business repairing Apple Macbook motherboards and making videos on how to do these repairs, business advice and related philosophy. <br />
** These repairs are considered "unauthorized" by Apple and could the driving force behind the shutdown. <br />
** There are approximately 700 educational videos on his channel that should be archived, please see the [[YouTube]] page on how to archive YouTube videos. <br />
** His business websites could also be at risk https://www.rossmanngroup.com/ & https://mailin.repair/ & https://www.rossmanngroup.com/boards/<br />
* BitTorrent DHT - indexed by various projects who tend to get shut down sooner or later:<br />
** [https://btdb.to BTDB] - has had domain seized in the past, [http://btdb.to/about uses gmail for DMCA notices], no other contact info<br />
** [https://btdig.com/ BTDigg] - has had multiple domains seized in the past and died before. Twitter and Facebook is inactive. Contact page doesn't work, but allegedly uses email form<br />
** [https://torrentproject.se/ Torrent Project] - maybe dead, see [[Deathwatch#2017]] for more information<br />
** [https://itorrents.org iTorrents.org] - torrent cache, run by the operator of limetorrents.cc (see whois for contact information)<br />
* [[Reddit]] - has banned several subreddits including r/FatPeopleHate, r/incels and r/maleforeveralone, which had tens of thousands of subscribers each. Other subreddits including r/Braincels, r/foreveralone, r/TheRedPill and r/MGTOW are endangered. Discussions and [https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/308/200/042/?TAP=1007&cid=causes_petition_postinfo petitions] about banning those subreddits are currently taking place.<ref>{{URL|https://babe.net/2018/03/07/incel-40474}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/83irsc/why_isnt_rbraincels_banned_yet/}}</ref><br />
* We have even more small tidbits of information at [[Deathwatch/Misc]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or ones with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[BlackBerry World]] will shut down.<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]] will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@hubbard/liswiki-and-the-tragedy-of-the-non-commons-46f3c51a3002}}</ref><br />
* May 31: [[Kanji Koohii Forum]] with 253,371 posts and 14,950 threads will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.koohii.com/thread-15535.html}}</ref><br />
* May 17: The mobile game Paradise Bay's servers, making the game unplayable; the forums will follow one week later (May 24)<ref>{{URL|https://paradisebaygame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=524389}}</ref><br />
* April 24: [[Daum Storyfunding]] will shut down.<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers will shut down.<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]] will be purged.<br />
* March 31: All [[Wikia]]-hosted [[Uncyclopedia]]s<ref>{{URL|https://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:A_message_from_Fandom}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 30: goo.gl, Google's URL shortening service will be frozen.<ref>{{URL|https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>February 5</s> March 12: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures will be deleted.<ref>{{url|https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/18051950/flickr-1000-photo-limit-free-accounts-changes-pro-subscription-smugmug}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/02/04/flickr-begin-deleting-photos-users-if-they-dont-pay-fee/2769812002/}}</ref><br />
* February 15: WedPics.com<ref>{{url|https://wedpics.com/home}} (see banner)</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* October/November 2018: Donny Long and PornWikiLeaks are attempting to have [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] shut down.<br />
* October 1: Large Manosphere blog [[Return of Kings]] with 5,800 articles and an active comments section is [http://www.returnofkings.com/195790/return-of-kings-is-going-on-hiatus going on hiatus].<br />
* September 14: [https://www.racked.com/ Racked] ceased publication but will continue serving the archives for now.<ref>{{URL|https://www.racked.com/2018/9/14/17661866/racked-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* Date unknown: [https://blogs.harvard.edu/ Harvard's web blog service] is removing blogs by people not currently at Harvard.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/blog/2018/07/13/upcoming-changes/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2017 ===<br />
* [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, will only serve static files. Probably preparing for closure.<br />
* [https://torrentproject.se Torrent Project] - displays an error 403 page, but the server is still active and serving [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ the .onion domain]. Can be contacted via email (see https://web.archive.org/web/20170705071813/https://torrentproject.se/feedback). Has valuable metadata they've collected about torrents such as mediainfo, and also has a very large database (103m) of them.<br />
* Date unknown: [http://sasCommunity.org sasCommunity.org] published an announcement December 7, 2017 that the site would be decommissioned; on March 13, 2018, the site was converted into read-only mode.<br />
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=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: Pirate Bay image hosting site "Bayimg" returns after it shutdown in the raid. However, staff announced that the site would only be up for a week.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bays-image-hosting-site-bayimg-returns-for-a-bit-160425/}}</ref> As of 2019-01-03, the site is still online.<br />
* Date unknown: Lots of older [[nin.com]] sub-domains (e.g. remix.nin.com, forum.nin.com) are dying; DNS has already been repointed but the old hosts are still on as of 2016-12-20<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref><br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data is hosted on the site and is at risk of being deleted.<br />
* June 27: Music News Nashville is ceasing publication. "All of our archives will remain online for at least one more year." <ref>{{url|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/}}</ref><br />
* March 21: Futanariobsession, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, is closing its doors. <ref>{{url|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref><br />
* January 1: AutoHotKey's older, IPBoards based forum has been made read-only, in favor of their new forums. Users were migrated but forum posts were not. <ref>{{url|https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/149716-ip-boards-decommission/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://ahkscript.org/foundation/history.html}}</ref><br />
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=== 2015 ===<br />
* Date Unknown: [[Picasa]] content will increasingly be killed as [[wikipedia:Google Photos|Google Photos]] was launched on 2015-05-28 and will need users.<br />
* Date Unknown: AOL apparently has plans to kill a bunch of sites, including with [[Joystiq]], [[MyDaily]], and [[ParentDish]].<ref>{{url|http://recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* Date Unknown: Bad Juju Games has filed for bankruptcy, which might mean an end to [[Desura]] and [[Indie Royale]], which hosts a large amount of games not hosted anywhere else (some of which is free), as well as forums and various user-generated content. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
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== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* December 17: [[Tumblr]] nuked all adult content (or what their algorithms thought was adult content<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/carolinethegeek/status/1069712323923726336}}</ref>).<ref>{{URL|https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Sensitive-content}}</ref><br />
* November 5: [https://botbot.me/ BotBot.me], an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* October 10: 品葱 ({{url|https://pin-cong.com/}}) Due to the high quality criticism and reactionary to communism and China, Chinese Communist Party decided to take down it.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* August 1: [http://tindeck.com/ Tindeck] permanently ceased operations on August 1st, 2018, in response to the EU considering changes to Article 13 of the European Union Copyright Directive.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* July 18: [[Looksmax.net]], a red pill and self-improvement forum, has been shut down because the owner's wife demanded him to shut it down after the owner was doxed.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements guideline.gov, the US government's Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality's National Guidelines Clearinghouse, went dark.] It was a government database that one researcher said "was our go-to source, and there is nothing else like it in the world"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. ArchiveTeam archived the whole site in June 2018. It was added to [[ArchiveBot]] again in July to make sure that everything's covered: {{Job|1faxz160pkjk4yhndfizglop6}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com Pick-Up-Artist-Forum.com], with one million posts and 170,000 members, was shut down. "Sorry, this forum is no longer active. The posts/threads you see will remain available to read, however new registrations, posts, threads and any type of update will no longer be allowed. Thanks!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 1: [[Mapzen]] announced on 2 January 2018 that it "will cease operations at the end of January 2018. Our hosted APIs and all related support and services will turn off on February 1, 2018. You will not be charged for API usage in December/January.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources are present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
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=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] close; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* November 8: [[Miiverse]], Nintendo's social network which had a client in the 3DS and WiiU consoles and was also for the most part accessible over a PC web browser, was shut down. While incomplete, a good chunk of the content was unofficially backed up onto [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closes down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/ gets turned off.<br />
* Date unknown: According to akz, self-identified in #archivebot as a moderator of the site, [[Captain Luffy Forums]] will be closing when the hosting expires, as the owner has chosen not to renew it. It finally did so sometime after August 10th.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|http://What.cd/|What.cd}} suddenly shuts down. One of, if not, the largest BitTorrent Music Trackers on the internet. "Due to some recent events, What.CD is shutting down. We are not likely to return any time soon in our current form. All site and user data has been destroyed. So long, and thanks for all the fish."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ends web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shuts down after it is acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware is shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26, and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* October 23: Allmyvideos.net removed all videos and shut down their website for Good. They claimed that this is because their site is no longer profitable enough to run and maintain the website.<br />
* September: Questhub.io is a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} will shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar will shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: Yahoo has announced that is discontinuing support for all legacy versions of Yahoo messenger and on August 5th the servers will be shut down for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, shareware and other software payment processor that started in 1994, shut down with no notice, claiming: "For the past ten years Kagi has been struggling to recover from financial losses due to a supplier fraud situation. We have reduced the debt but the recovery has failed and forced us to close."<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* July 20: Kickasstorrents has been seized and the tor domain is offline as well. Fortunately, Proxies exist that have some of the data cached, but it's only a matter of time before the cache gets deleted or the proxies stop working. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, is shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk] Danish blog site (subproject of Arto).<br />
* May 13: Beatport "will be shutting down the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section."<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store are shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* February 9: Gametrailers officially closed, though the site is still up.<br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] is shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate is shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* July 24: Surfersparadise closes down most of its websites and content, including the Miss Surfersparadise illustration contest, after making an announcement just 11 days prior. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* June 13: Hungarian image hosting service [[keptarad.hu]] goes down with nearly 80,000 (or, according to inner source, 1.6 million) pictures, one week after it was scheduled to.<br />
* June 9: [[Pomf.se]] staff decided to go down with 1.6 million files (and thousands of pastes). Fortunately, they contacted ArchiveTeam and let them get a copy. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* January: Image hosting site Majhost quietly disappeared. Curiously, as of 2017, its whois registration is still renewed regularly. Its LEGO-related counterpart, Brickshelf, remains active.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: Gnome (Gnome Platform, formerly Interclick) and Right Media Exchange (Right Media Inc) is shutdown by Yahoo!.<ref>{{url|http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-shuts-down-right-media-exchange-2015-1}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://adexchanger.com/online-advertising/yahoo-retires-genome-and-right-media-brands-simplifies-around-yahoo-ad-exchange/}}</ref><ref><nowiki>http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/72591025021/introducing-the-new-yahoo-advertising</nowiki> ([https://archive.is/eGAIq archive.today] copy) (direct link blocked by wiki spamfilter)</ref><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
<br />
===2013===<br />
<br />
* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} is no more. The company that bought the website in 2004, Global Gaming League, decided to "move on" after basically running the website into the ground.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* November 18 (and back through 2012): Disney nuked a bunch of online games: Pixie Hollow Online, Cars Online, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Toontown Online. The futures of the large fan forums and an extremely completist wiki are doubtful. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} The Pixie Hollow fan forum specifically announced that they will not be archived, and the Cars Online forum seems to have a similar warning, while the other forums for the shut down games will apparently be migrated into this: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' promises lifetime control of your data and return of your data to loved ones for just $300 for "lifetime", or $30/year. Archive Team says to just say '''No'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* October 21: [[isoHunt]] was always going to shut down after an MPAA settlement. However, it did so earlier than expected to prevent archival efforts, claiming that 95% of torrents were available elsewhere. No mention of the metadata though.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* June 28: Nintendo shuts down all of its WiiConnect24 services, except for the Mii Channel, Wii Shop Channel, Mario Kart Wii Channel, and the Wii Speak Channel.<br />
* June 4: '''Adrenaline Vault''', a video game review site, has this posted on their Facebook profile: "Over the past weekend hackers hit the site with a DoS attack. Everything had been wiped and with no backups, everything was lost. It has been decided that Avault will remain closed. Rest in Peace, Avault."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', an anonymous file upload site, has announced that they are about $2500 in the hole on hosting costs, and that there is possibility of their shutting down if donations do not improve. It stands to reason that there are some files among their database that are worth saving. An attempt to contact the administrator for more information and to be given a dump of the site was made, and he responded saying he'd be happy to rsync a copy of the data after some legal issues have been settled.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* April 20: '''Microsoft Collection Book''', a site dedicated to collecting information about Windows betas, shuts down due to a C&D from Microsoft. It reopened on May 5 as '''The Collection Book'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' and '''all sites under opensolaris.org''', including the site hosting the OpenSolaris source code, were decommissioned by Oracle. OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris and originally created by Sun Microsystems. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, Oracle decided to discontinue open development of the core software, and replaced the OpenSolaris distribution model with the proprietary Solaris Express.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', a major video chat service, shut down. Users were emailed and given the ability to download any recorded videos for 3 weeks in advance of the closing date.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', a Polish video game news portal, was closed in May, and later wiped entirely on October 29. The articles have been retained at the publisher's other video game portal, Polygamia.pl, but the article comments and the forums are gone (It also had user blogs, but they seemed to have been erased much earlier.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, a central distributor of FOSS commit messages to IRC channels, got its database deleted by its web host. There were no backups. It had been running for a decade (although it had changed maintainership a year before).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} by August 17. All of the images themselves (but not the comments) were available to download via torrents, though it is unknown if the torrents are still available. A possibly full torrent dump is available at [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ minuette.net, which hosts the image files on the website]. Currently the most popular/upvoted images are available via another imageboard, Derpibooru, but their copy is incomplete.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} to be closing on July 30, 2012. While the service has only been around for ~2 years it represents a unique look at services for Linked Data, and contains a variety of datasets. Kasabi has a {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* July 1: The Polish social network '''[[wikipedia:Grono.net]]''' has disappeared, replaced by a file hosting service '''grono.net.pl''' on July 1, 2012. Most content from the old site was supposed to be migrated, but, according to a message on the main page, technical difficulties have delayed the migration by one or two weeks. It's getting increasingly late...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* February: Hungarian free hosting provider {{url|1=http://eplanet.hu|2=Eplanet}} stops free service as of February 2012; unknown number of pages disappeared and probably deleted.<br />
* January 19: The popular file hosting service '''Megaupload''' has been shut down in January 2012; with it, '''Megavideo''' too is gone. It was mainly used for copyright infringement, but lots of perfectly regular files were hosted on it.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> and many great/experimental one of a kind tools vanished. Among many others "google sets" that had been around since a long time, "City Tours" some includeing user generated content and the exciting "google squared" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> that was an approach to pass more artificial intelligence to the user than conventional searchengines (compareable to wolframalpha) but seemingly based on a bigger/vast pool of data just like standard google searchresults). Since there is hardly any obvious rationale(?) for closeing down "Google Labs" it pictures google as being either less supportive or even hostile to new inoventions and less responsible with usergenerated content or more secretive about their ongoing projects than one might thought before or than Google might was before indeed. 1 Jan 2011 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' closed on May 3, 2011 and deleted everything on May 31, 2011. Users who heard about the closure were given the options of either transferring their photos and videos over to dotPhoto.com or purchasing a DVD with their content for $15.00.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* April 16: '''[[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]''' shutdown on 16. April 2011 without warning. Ongoing reconstruction Efforts. A lot of Images and Articles are probably lost. (The replacement OhInternet is a very strongly sanitized Version of ED.) <s>ED is claiming that they are in danger of shutting down. Despite the controversial nature of many articles hosted on the wiki, this would be a big loss of historical records.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* March 16: '''Microsoft''' closed '''Windows Live Spaces''' on March 16, 2011. Spaces owners had the option to migrate their blogs to '''WordPress''' or to make copies. As of January 4, 2011, they could no longer edit their existing Spaces.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* February 22: The [[Insurgency Wiki]] is a wiki with a community that created multiple guides and raids for Anonymous, in a similar manner to [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]. It's status has always been unclear, with many mirrors coming and going. But as of Feb. 22, 2012, the last mirror, Partyvan.info, looks like it has some damning database error. Just in case, the Bibliotheca Anonoma has made a full backup, including all available images available.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* January: The wiki hosting site '''wik.is''', hosted by MindTouch, shut down on the first week of January 2011; the explanation being that "in order to continue to support the growing needs of our MindTouch Express users, we are offering MindTouch Cloud", which "opens up additional features and functionality that are not available in Wik.is.". The only way you'd know all that is if you receive a warning e-mail from MindTouch. They offer to keep your site running by "upgrading to our paid Cloud version by {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' was a small social network started as a side venture by CareerBuilder.com in August 2009. It was quietly shutdown November 2010 without much fanfare. At its height it has 100k users.<br />
* October 31: '''isweb lite''', the Japanese GeoCities, shut down on October 31. Thousands of personal homepages of artists and illustrators were deleted forever. A tiny sample of the pages deleted: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* Mid-2010: '''[[JuniorNet]]''', a subscription based online portal for children, was quietly shut down nearly a decade after it dot-bombed and was acquired by former employees.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', once a popular Finnish web site associated with electronic dance music, clubbing/raving, and the other related things was closed in March after been running for years. All the content posted to the forums of the site was, however, obtained and made available by {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* December 6: '''favrd''', a website that aggregated favorite tweets from twitter, abruptly shut down on December 6, 2009 with absolutely no warning, killing off thousands of highlighted entries added by group-consensus over significant months. As a reward for their efforts, founder Dean Allen wrote this helpful message: ''"Alas, stars on Twitter have become mere take-out menus hung on the doors of other restaurants. There are still lots of clever and funny things to read every day, but finding these is no longer a challenge â you already follow your sources. Sites like this one now serve mainly as fuel for emotional up-fuckedness in the guise of a game. Just an idea: next time you see something you like, write the person who made it a note telling them so. Even better, explain why. Take care!"'' Advice to people who want to work with Dean Allen's projects in the future: don't.<br />
* November: '''here.is''' seems to permanently off-line. It ceased to re-direct email for some time ago and as per 11-23-09 it doesn't redirect even URLs any longer.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* October 31: '''Microsoft Encarta''', the online encyclopedia with a 15+ year history, is being shut down. The US version will shut down on October 31, 2009 and the Japanese version on December 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* August 30ish: '''ArchNacho's & TortillaGodzilla's Quality ROMs''', a site that hosted ROMs for NES, SNES, and Genesis games, which has announced its effective death back in January 2006, is now finally completely inaccessible, both on its original domain {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. The Wayback Machine contains a mirror of the site up through August 30, 2007, which is after all updates to the site ceased. All ROMs hosted on QualityRoms are included in the mirror and can be downloaded from there.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> that they are closing up shop on July 13, 2009. Of course, you can still register an account but that's the first thing you're told.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} on June 25, 2009 that they were "simplifying" things and deleting all user-generated photos and videos uploaded by users. They gave everyone '''five days''' to get their photos off, and then extended it to ''twenty days'' from the ensuing hue and cry. The uploaded videos had no way to extract them back.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' became the latest example of Yahoo!'s awesome respect for history and data, announcing the closure of the video hosting and editing site, for June 15, 2009. A software utility has been released to allow you to download the movies from Jumpcut. Otherwise, you are not in great shape - Yahoo says you can move your videos to Flickr, but Flickr cuts off at 90 seconds. A lot of homemade video is going to disappear.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* April 20: '''{{url|1=http://www.coghead.com|2=Coghead}}''', " a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications and a software as a platform 'utility computing' company", announced it had closed up on February 20, 2009, and that the site would go down permanently on April 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|1=http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=349}}</ref>. It did.<br />
* April 17: '''{{url|1=http://furl.net/|2=Furl}}''' was a social bookmarking service that had been around since 2004. It was acquired by Diigo (announced on March 9), allowed people to opt into transferring their bookmarks to Diigo, and shut down on April 17.<ref>blog.diigo.com/2009/03/16/welcome-furl-users/ (link blocked by spam filter)</ref><ref>{{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/09/diigo-buys-web-page-clipping-service-furl-away-from-looksmart/|2=Techcrunch post}}</ref><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* March 31: It doesn't get more ironic than this: '''{{url|1=https://www.upline.com/|2=Upline}}''', a HP-owned online backup service, is being shut down.<ref>{{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10173136-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5}}</ref> ''They almost immediately turned off the backup process,'' and then announced all your restorable data would go offline on March 31, roughly 30 days after announcement. Surprise!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|Yahoo Briefcase]]''', a positively ancient site run by Yahoo that provided you with 25 free megabytes of storage space for your junk, sent a mail to what were likely years-old contact addresses to tell them they had a little more than a month to get their files out, March 30, 2009. After that, the files would be deleted. What, Yahoo doesn't have a spare memory stick to store what must be the amount of files in this service for the next year?<br />
* March 25: '''Yahoo! Farechase''', an airline fare aggregation and searching site, was shut down on March 25, 2009. It had previously been its own company, founded in 1999, and purchased by Yahoo! in 2004. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "a FREE service that lets you download over 3 million songs and videos, legally and safely", pulled up stakes in the night and completely shut down on March 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> Initially, reports indicated it would shut down the website as well as the paper, but a plan was apparently in place to run a "skeleton crew" on an internet-only site, which continues to operate.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' had a combination database and backup failure, losing: "All votes, ever. All member usernames who registered later than around 12 months ago. All member rankings. Your member profile info (e.g., bio, favorite sift, etc.), if any. All activity that happened on the site yesterday, March 11." This is unlikely to kill the site, but an awful lot of data was lost.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', a "citizen journalism" site run by Getty images to allow the uploading of images by citizen journalists and the chance to be licensed to news organizations, announced they would no longer take any new imagery after February 6, 2009, and will shut down completely on March 6, 2009. Some content uploaders "may" be contacted about being absorbed into the main Getty site.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' was redirected to Last.fm. The free music it offered does not seem to have been transferred, however (the band Ancient Teknologi had several tracks available on music.download.com, but only one available on Last.fm). As of 28 February, it claimed to have 111.052 MP3s.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> We're watching to see what happens with the website (and the material, and the newspaper itself). With a 150-year history, there's a lot of backstory, and how this chronicler of history will end up, so too will many others. There is an excellent documentary about the last days of the Rocky Mountain News {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* February 23: '''Windows Live''' shut down the '''MSN Groups''' on February 23. They extended their original date from February 21st to give Group owners the weekend to prepare. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' had a catastrophic disk corruption/failure on January 31, 2009. From the message on the main site: ''"As I evaluate recovery options, I can't provide a certain timeline or prognosis as to to when or to what degree Ma.gnolia or your bookmarks will return; only that this process will take days, not hours."'' Ma.gnolia had an excellent export feature... hope you used it and did the backups they didn't!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, one of the site's heavily used social bookmarking features (somewhat like delicious for images) will remain up for a few weeks to allow users to save their stuff.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|AOL Pictures]]''' said so long on January 9, 2009. To their credit, you can still yank your stuff into other photo services until June 2009. (At least, according to their goodbye letter.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* October 27: '''Digitalrailroad.net''', a photo hosting site, gave their users a 24-hour eviction notice on October 27, 2008. They shut down 10 hours after the 24-hour notice. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: '''Flip.com''', a social network for teenage girls, shut down on December 16, 2008. Users were advised to print out their digital scrapbooks as backups. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' was shut down on December 8, 2008. A lot of people complained about this one, while others thanked the site for shutting down and wished the founder well! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' failed to provide bloggers with the traffic they so desperately desired, and the creator admitted on October 29, 2008 that his 4AM idea may not have been so brilliant. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> The amount of broken hearts and anguish over this move was amazing, and a warning sign to any family-oriented site that encourages families to join up.<br />
** Some of the more anguished fans have gotten together in various forms to recreate VMK, including {{url|1=http://game.myvmk.com/|2=MyVMK}}, {{url|1=http://www.vmkrevisited.com/|2=VMKRevisted}} (a memorial site), and {{url|1=http://www.openvmk.com/|2=OpenVMK}} (although OpenVMK shutdown due to {{url|1=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qTdpgcLUd-Hg6-FZzkVEju4x1aMlhbMNX6snlUNgnOM/|2=internal squabbles}}.)<br />
* February 14: '''[[wikipedia:Think_Secret]]''' was killed by Apple and shut down on February 14, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/12/apple-and-think.html}}</ref><br />
* July 31: '''Social.fm''' couldn't stand up to Last.fm, and died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10005554-36.html}}</ref><br />
* May 15: '''Brijit.com''', a news aggregation site, closed on May 15, 2008. It might be closed for good. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9945059-36.html}}</ref><br />
* February: '''Yahoo! Design''', a showcase of designing and information aesthetics related to the Yahoo! properties, got revised into oblivion in February, 2008 as part of a 1,000 employee layoff. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (Internet Underground Music Archive), of Santa Cruz, California, the actual first website to offer free hosting of bands including MP3 files of music offered by the bands, was mostly archived by John Gilmore before going down. At least one IUMA founder now has a copy of that archive. This ~800GB collection has been [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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* '''[[Berlios.de]]''' <s>will {{url|1=http://www.berlios.de/|2=shut down at end of 2011}}. The site hosts thousands of open source software projects (git, svn, bzr, mailing lists, bug tracking, etc.). {{url|1=http://developer.berlios.de/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2056&group_id=2|2=Instructions for exporting a project.}} Berlios is still open and they are now</s> {{url|1=http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/german-open-source-development-site-berlios-joins-sourceforge|2=partnered with sourceforge}} to keep things running.<br />
* '''[[Citizendium]]''''s finances {{url|1=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-08/News_and_notes|2=constantly cry for money}}. Running a MediaWiki site is cheap and Sanger is not homeless, hence it's expected to survive. [[WikiTeam]] archives it on a regular basis.<br />
* '''[[Delicious]]'''<ref>{{url|http://www.delicious.com}}</ref> will be {{url|1=http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/16/delicious.php|2=shutting down soon}}. The whole team was let go yesterday - 15 December 2010. {{url|1=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/16/2220225/Yahoo-To-Close-Delicious|2=Slashdot link}}. Delicious was acquired from Yahoo! in early 2011 by AVOS however all the prior content is gone.<br />
* '''Cli.gs''', another URL shortening service, announced closure: "On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics."<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/cligs-shutting-down}}</ref> In December 2009, it was announced that the "social bookmarking" site Mister Wong has acquired cli.gs and are keeping it running.<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/mister-wong-acquires-cligs}}</ref> All aboard the [[TinyURL]] project. <br />
* '''{{url|1=https://duck.co/topic/soft-launch-of-the-new-forum|2=Duck.co}}''', the official DuckDuckGo community forums, transitioned to their {{url|1=https://dukgo.com|2=own platform}} and moved all posts over from their old Zoho forum.<br />
* '''[[Earbits]]''' bites the dust on June 16, 2014, but comes back to life on June 19th, 2014. In between, we grabbed ~130GB of images and ~130k MP3s.<br />
* '''{{URL|http://www.filefront.com/|FileFront}}''' is closing up shop <ref>{{url|http://farewell.filefront.com/}}</ref>. The site will be suspended on March 30, 2009. 1.5 Million files and 48+ TB of space gone just like that. As of April 2, 2009, it looks like there may have been an 11th hour reprieve for Filefront: according to a message reportedly from the original founders of the service<ref>{{url|http://welcome.filefront.com/}}</ref>, the site has been re-acquired by them in order to prevent its proposed shuttering. On 2010-11-30, FileFront rebranded to [[GameFront]]<ref>{{URL|http://www.gamefront.com/welcome-to-the-gamefront-launch-center/}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[Google Video]]''' threatened to remove all hosted videos with two weeks' notice in April 2011. It backed down after criticism and an archive effort by the Archive Team.<br />
* '''Home of the Underdogs''' went under on Feb 9th<ref>{{url|http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2009/02/13/rip-hotu/}}</ref>. There has been some passed along words by the site's owner, now working at an NGO, that an attempt to bring it back may happen. (She definitely has backups of the site.) A community-driven effort to revive the site is currently underway <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org}}</ref>. Backups were restored, and the remaining files (1,000+) collected from the community. As of Jan 4th 2010, HOTU is reporting that files are back online <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org/component/content/article/25133-files-online-and-import-done}}</ref><br />
* '''[[JPG Magazine]]''' announced it would shut down on January 5, 2009 <ref>{{url|http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/01/jpg_magazine_says_goodbye.html}}</ref>, but the site lives {{url|1=http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/02/an_exciting_future_for_jpg.html|2=lives on under new ownership}}. Feel free to download the {{url|http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4624703/|torrent}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{url|http://kiwifarms.net/|Kiwi Farms}}, a notorious forum that mocks [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolcow "lolcows"], was shut down on January 20, 2017 without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later.<br />
* '''[[Linux Journal]]''': Announced on 1 December 2017 that it is ceasing publication.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication}}</ref> Announced on 1 January 2018 that it has been unexpectedly rescued.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-new-year-linux-journal-alive}}</ref><br />
* '''[[MobyGames]]''', the largest database of old game releases on the net, with huge amount of content found nowhere else. Was bought by [[GameFly]] in 2010 and received a new site design in September 2013, which made almost all contributors emigrate. Many site features have disappeared or became broken in the new design, and their large database of cover art and screenshots had problems loading. In December 2013, the site was bought by {{url|1=http://blueflamelabs.com/|2=Blue Flame Labs}}, who have restored the old site design and managed to draw back pretty much all the contributors. It seems that the site is going back to full health again. <br />
* {{url|https://nyaa.se|'''[[nyaa]]'''}} shut down at May 2 2017 due to copyright problem, and {{url|https://nyaa.si|revival at 10 day after}}.<br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* Video host '''[[Viddler]]''' announces in an {{url|1=http://mad.ly/5ae274?pact=20251445218&fe=1|2=e-mail newsletter}} that they're shutting down free accounts on March 11, 2014. But Archive Team kicked in and began to suck up the place until the owners told us to stop. Videos won't be permanently deleted.<br />
* '''[[WebCite]]''' &ndash; Has a habit of crying for money, threatening it will stop accepting submissions. Since October 2013, the Wayback Machine archives pages on demand, hence there's no reason to use a site like WebCite that declares self at risk. It's expected that they'll send their data to Internet Archive if they ever really have to shut down.<br />
* '''[[Word Count Journal]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wordcountjournal.com/about}}) is shutting down on June 11, 2011 '''UPDATE''' The site is fully up and running. (checked on October 21, 2011) '''UPDATE2''': Non-functional, but the website is up with this notice "Word Count Journal is no longer being supported." (checked on January 26th, 2012)<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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=== Tragic ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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=== Humorous ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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[[Category:Archive Team]]</div>Zeronethttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Deathwatch&diff=35832Deathwatch2019-03-29T09:15:36Z<p>Zeronet: /* 2018 */</p>
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<div>The '''Deathwatch''' or '''Watchlist''' is a central indicator of websites and networks that are shutting down and serves as an indicator of what happened to particular sites that shut down quickly.<br />
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New sites should be added in chronological order, newest death date first. Forward-looking death dates should be added to the first list only. Sites large enough to warrant additional information will receive a dedicated page, linked from here and on [[:Category:Closing projects]].<br />
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(The content of the Getting Things Done table, merged with the In Progress table, can now be found on [[Small projects]].)<br />
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== Pre-emptive Alarmbells (Likely To Die) ==<br />
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=== Sunset Happy ===<br />
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*Oath/Verizon<br />
** Archive Team officially proclaims '''[[Yahoo!]]''' the least trustable host and its arch-enemy. Prove us different, Yahooligans. Or... don't. Expect anything in [[wikipedia:List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Yahoo!]] and [[wikipedia:List_of_Yahoo!-owned_sites_and_services]] to shutdown (if it hasn't already).<br />
**Please follow the feeds! {{url|https://twitter.com/YahooVictims}} & {{url|http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/03733117766037168292/11115209096644139952}}<br />
** [[AOL]] has decided to follow in Yahoo's footsteps by mass-closing websites at an alarmingly fast rate. Be careful not to leave any important data with them!<br />
* [[Nokia]] has recently been shutting down services at an alarmingly fast rate. Back up your data, Nokia users!<br />
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=== Just When You Least Expect It ===<br />
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Archive Team keeps a list of '''[[Fire_Drill|"healthy sites"]]''' that could be fine today and not so hot tomorrow. We focus on ways to back your personal data off these sites so you don't put yourself at unnecessary risk.<br />
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=== Other endangered species and misc ideas ===<br />
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* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w Louis Rossmann's Youtube channel]. He released a video on June 30th with strong hints his channel and business were being shutdown because of reasons he was not able to state. <br />
** He runs/ran a business repairing Apple Macbook motherboards and making videos on how to do these repairs, business advice and related philosophy. <br />
** These repairs are considered "unauthorized" by Apple and could the driving force behind the shutdown. <br />
** There are approximately 700 educational videos on his channel that should be archived, please see the [[YouTube]] page on how to archive YouTube videos. <br />
** His business websites could also be at risk https://www.rossmanngroup.com/ & https://mailin.repair/ & https://www.rossmanngroup.com/boards/<br />
* BitTorrent DHT - indexed by various projects who tend to get shut down sooner or later:<br />
** [https://btdb.to BTDB] - has had domain seized in the past, [http://btdb.to/about uses gmail for DMCA notices], no other contact info<br />
** [https://btdig.com/ BTDigg] - has had multiple domains seized in the past and died before. Twitter and Facebook is inactive. Contact page doesn't work, but allegedly uses email form<br />
** [https://torrentproject.se/ Torrent Project] - maybe dead, see [[Deathwatch#2017]] for more information<br />
** [https://itorrents.org iTorrents.org] - torrent cache, run by the operator of limetorrents.cc (see whois for contact information)<br />
* [[Reddit]] - has banned several subreddits including r/FatPeopleHate, r/incels and r/maleforeveralone, which had tens of thousands of subscribers each. Other subreddits including r/Braincels, r/foreveralone, r/TheRedPill and r/MGTOW are endangered. Discussions and [https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/308/200/042/?TAP=1007&cid=causes_petition_postinfo petitions] about banning those subreddits are currently taking place.<ref>{{URL|https://babe.net/2018/03/07/incel-40474}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/83irsc/why_isnt_rbraincels_banned_yet/}}</ref><br />
* We have even more small tidbits of information at [[Deathwatch/Misc]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or ones with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[BlackBerry World]] will shut down.<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]] will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@hubbard/liswiki-and-the-tragedy-of-the-non-commons-46f3c51a3002}}</ref><br />
* May 31: [[Kanji Koohii Forum]] with 253,371 posts and 14,950 threads will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.koohii.com/thread-15535.html}}</ref><br />
* May 17: The mobile game Paradise Bay's servers, making the game unplayable; the forums will follow one week later (May 24)<ref>{{URL|https://paradisebaygame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=524389}}</ref><br />
* April 24: [[Daum Storyfunding]] will shut down.<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers will shut down.<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]] will be purged.<br />
* March 31: All [[Wikia]]-hosted [[Uncyclopedia]]s<ref>{{URL|https://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:A_message_from_Fandom}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 30: goo.gl, Google's URL shortening service will be frozen.<ref>{{URL|https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>February 5</s> March 12: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures will be deleted.<ref>{{url|https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/18051950/flickr-1000-photo-limit-free-accounts-changes-pro-subscription-smugmug}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/02/04/flickr-begin-deleting-photos-users-if-they-dont-pay-fee/2769812002/}}</ref><br />
* February 15: WedPics.com<ref>{{url|https://wedpics.com/home}} (see banner)</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* October/November 2018: Donny Long and PornWikiLeaks are attempting to have [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] shut down.<br />
* October 1: Large Manosphere blog [[Return of Kings]] with 5,800 articles and an active comments section is [http://www.returnofkings.com/195790/return-of-kings-is-going-on-hiatus going on hiatus].<br />
* September 14: [https://www.racked.com/ Racked] ceased publication but will continue serving the archives for now.<ref>{{URL|https://www.racked.com/2018/9/14/17661866/racked-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* Date unknown: [https://blogs.harvard.edu/ Harvard's web blog service] is removing blogs by people not currently at Harvard.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/blog/2018/07/13/upcoming-changes/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2017 ===<br />
* [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, will only serve static files. Probably preparing for closure.<br />
* [https://torrentproject.se Torrent Project] - displays an error 403 page, but the server is still active and serving [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ the .onion domain]. Can be contacted via email (see https://web.archive.org/web/20170705071813/https://torrentproject.se/feedback). Has valuable metadata they've collected about torrents such as mediainfo, and also has a very large database (103m) of them.<br />
* Date unknown: [http://sasCommunity.org sasCommunity.org] published an announcement December 7, 2017 that the site would be decommissioned; on March 13, 2018, the site was converted into read-only mode.<br />
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=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: Pirate Bay image hosting site "Bayimg" returns after it shutdown in the raid. However, staff announced that the site would only be up for a week.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bays-image-hosting-site-bayimg-returns-for-a-bit-160425/}}</ref> As of 2019-01-03, the site is still online.<br />
* Date unknown: Lots of older [[nin.com]] sub-domains (e.g. remix.nin.com, forum.nin.com) are dying; DNS has already been repointed but the old hosts are still on as of 2016-12-20<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref><br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data is hosted on the site and is at risk of being deleted.<br />
* June 27: Music News Nashville is ceasing publication. "All of our archives will remain online for at least one more year." <ref>{{url|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/}}</ref><br />
* March 21: Futanariobsession, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, is closing its doors. <ref>{{url|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref><br />
* January 1: AutoHotKey's older, IPBoards based forum has been made read-only, in favor of their new forums. Users were migrated but forum posts were not. <ref>{{url|https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/149716-ip-boards-decommission/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://ahkscript.org/foundation/history.html}}</ref><br />
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=== 2015 ===<br />
* Date Unknown: [[Picasa]] content will increasingly be killed as [[wikipedia:Google Photos|Google Photos]] was launched on 2015-05-28 and will need users.<br />
* Date Unknown: AOL apparently has plans to kill a bunch of sites, including with [[Joystiq]], [[MyDaily]], and [[ParentDish]].<ref>{{url|http://recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* Date Unknown: Bad Juju Games has filed for bankruptcy, which might mean an end to [[Desura]] and [[Indie Royale]], which hosts a large amount of games not hosted anywhere else (some of which is free), as well as forums and various user-generated content. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
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== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* December 17: [[Tumblr]] nuked all adult content (or what their algorithms thought was adult content<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/carolinethegeek/status/1069712323923726336}}</ref>).<ref>{{URL|https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Sensitive-content}}</ref><br />
* November 5: [https://botbot.me/ BotBot.me], an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* October 10: 品葱 ({{url|https://pin-cong.com/}}) Due to the criticism and reactionary to Chinese Communist Party, CCP decided to take down it.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* August 1: [http://tindeck.com/ Tindeck] permanently ceased operations on August 1st, 2018, in response to the EU considering changes to Article 13 of the European Union Copyright Directive.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* July 18: [[Looksmax.net]], a red pill and self-improvement forum, has been shut down because the owner's wife demanded him to shut it down after the owner was doxed.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements guideline.gov, the US government's Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality's National Guidelines Clearinghouse, went dark.] It was a government database that one researcher said "was our go-to source, and there is nothing else like it in the world"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. ArchiveTeam archived the whole site in June 2018. It was added to [[ArchiveBot]] again in July to make sure that everything's covered: {{Job|1faxz160pkjk4yhndfizglop6}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com Pick-Up-Artist-Forum.com], with one million posts and 170,000 members, was shut down. "Sorry, this forum is no longer active. The posts/threads you see will remain available to read, however new registrations, posts, threads and any type of update will no longer be allowed. Thanks!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 1: [[Mapzen]] announced on 2 January 2018 that it "will cease operations at the end of January 2018. Our hosted APIs and all related support and services will turn off on February 1, 2018. You will not be charged for API usage in December/January.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources are present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
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=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] close; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* November 8: [[Miiverse]], Nintendo's social network which had a client in the 3DS and WiiU consoles and was also for the most part accessible over a PC web browser, was shut down. While incomplete, a good chunk of the content was unofficially backed up onto [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closes down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
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=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/ gets turned off.<br />
* Date unknown: According to akz, self-identified in #archivebot as a moderator of the site, [[Captain Luffy Forums]] will be closing when the hosting expires, as the owner has chosen not to renew it. It finally did so sometime after August 10th.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|http://What.cd/|What.cd}} suddenly shuts down. One of, if not, the largest BitTorrent Music Trackers on the internet. "Due to some recent events, What.CD is shutting down. We are not likely to return any time soon in our current form. All site and user data has been destroyed. So long, and thanks for all the fish."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ends web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shuts down after it is acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware is shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26, and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* October 23: Allmyvideos.net removed all videos and shut down their website for Good. They claimed that this is because their site is no longer profitable enough to run and maintain the website.<br />
* September: Questhub.io is a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} will shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar will shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: Yahoo has announced that is discontinuing support for all legacy versions of Yahoo messenger and on August 5th the servers will be shut down for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, shareware and other software payment processor that started in 1994, shut down with no notice, claiming: "For the past ten years Kagi has been struggling to recover from financial losses due to a supplier fraud situation. We have reduced the debt but the recovery has failed and forced us to close."<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* July 20: Kickasstorrents has been seized and the tor domain is offline as well. Fortunately, Proxies exist that have some of the data cached, but it's only a matter of time before the cache gets deleted or the proxies stop working. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, is shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk] Danish blog site (subproject of Arto).<br />
* May 13: Beatport "will be shutting down the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section."<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store are shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* February 9: Gametrailers officially closed, though the site is still up.<br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] is shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate is shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
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===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* July 24: Surfersparadise closes down most of its websites and content, including the Miss Surfersparadise illustration contest, after making an announcement just 11 days prior. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* June 13: Hungarian image hosting service [[keptarad.hu]] goes down with nearly 80,000 (or, according to inner source, 1.6 million) pictures, one week after it was scheduled to.<br />
* June 9: [[Pomf.se]] staff decided to go down with 1.6 million files (and thousands of pastes). Fortunately, they contacted ArchiveTeam and let them get a copy. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* January: Image hosting site Majhost quietly disappeared. Curiously, as of 2017, its whois registration is still renewed regularly. Its LEGO-related counterpart, Brickshelf, remains active.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: Gnome (Gnome Platform, formerly Interclick) and Right Media Exchange (Right Media Inc) is shutdown by Yahoo!.<ref>{{url|http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-shuts-down-right-media-exchange-2015-1}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://adexchanger.com/online-advertising/yahoo-retires-genome-and-right-media-brands-simplifies-around-yahoo-ad-exchange/}}</ref><ref><nowiki>http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/72591025021/introducing-the-new-yahoo-advertising</nowiki> ([https://archive.is/eGAIq archive.today] copy) (direct link blocked by wiki spamfilter)</ref><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
<br />
===2013===<br />
<br />
* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} is no more. The company that bought the website in 2004, Global Gaming League, decided to "move on" after basically running the website into the ground.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* November 18 (and back through 2012): Disney nuked a bunch of online games: Pixie Hollow Online, Cars Online, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Toontown Online. The futures of the large fan forums and an extremely completist wiki are doubtful. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} The Pixie Hollow fan forum specifically announced that they will not be archived, and the Cars Online forum seems to have a similar warning, while the other forums for the shut down games will apparently be migrated into this: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' promises lifetime control of your data and return of your data to loved ones for just $300 for "lifetime", or $30/year. Archive Team says to just say '''No'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* October 21: [[isoHunt]] was always going to shut down after an MPAA settlement. However, it did so earlier than expected to prevent archival efforts, claiming that 95% of torrents were available elsewhere. No mention of the metadata though.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* June 28: Nintendo shuts down all of its WiiConnect24 services, except for the Mii Channel, Wii Shop Channel, Mario Kart Wii Channel, and the Wii Speak Channel.<br />
* June 4: '''Adrenaline Vault''', a video game review site, has this posted on their Facebook profile: "Over the past weekend hackers hit the site with a DoS attack. Everything had been wiped and with no backups, everything was lost. It has been decided that Avault will remain closed. Rest in Peace, Avault."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', an anonymous file upload site, has announced that they are about $2500 in the hole on hosting costs, and that there is possibility of their shutting down if donations do not improve. It stands to reason that there are some files among their database that are worth saving. An attempt to contact the administrator for more information and to be given a dump of the site was made, and he responded saying he'd be happy to rsync a copy of the data after some legal issues have been settled.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* April 20: '''Microsoft Collection Book''', a site dedicated to collecting information about Windows betas, shuts down due to a C&D from Microsoft. It reopened on May 5 as '''The Collection Book'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' and '''all sites under opensolaris.org''', including the site hosting the OpenSolaris source code, were decommissioned by Oracle. OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris and originally created by Sun Microsystems. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, Oracle decided to discontinue open development of the core software, and replaced the OpenSolaris distribution model with the proprietary Solaris Express.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', a major video chat service, shut down. Users were emailed and given the ability to download any recorded videos for 3 weeks in advance of the closing date.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
<br />
===2012===<br />
<br />
* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', a Polish video game news portal, was closed in May, and later wiped entirely on October 29. The articles have been retained at the publisher's other video game portal, Polygamia.pl, but the article comments and the forums are gone (It also had user blogs, but they seemed to have been erased much earlier.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, a central distributor of FOSS commit messages to IRC channels, got its database deleted by its web host. There were no backups. It had been running for a decade (although it had changed maintainership a year before).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} by August 17. All of the images themselves (but not the comments) were available to download via torrents, though it is unknown if the torrents are still available. A possibly full torrent dump is available at [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ minuette.net, which hosts the image files on the website]. Currently the most popular/upvoted images are available via another imageboard, Derpibooru, but their copy is incomplete.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} to be closing on July 30, 2012. While the service has only been around for ~2 years it represents a unique look at services for Linked Data, and contains a variety of datasets. Kasabi has a {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* July 1: The Polish social network '''[[wikipedia:Grono.net]]''' has disappeared, replaced by a file hosting service '''grono.net.pl''' on July 1, 2012. Most content from the old site was supposed to be migrated, but, according to a message on the main page, technical difficulties have delayed the migration by one or two weeks. It's getting increasingly late...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* February: Hungarian free hosting provider {{url|1=http://eplanet.hu|2=Eplanet}} stops free service as of February 2012; unknown number of pages disappeared and probably deleted.<br />
* January 19: The popular file hosting service '''Megaupload''' has been shut down in January 2012; with it, '''Megavideo''' too is gone. It was mainly used for copyright infringement, but lots of perfectly regular files were hosted on it.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> and many great/experimental one of a kind tools vanished. Among many others "google sets" that had been around since a long time, "City Tours" some includeing user generated content and the exciting "google squared" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> that was an approach to pass more artificial intelligence to the user than conventional searchengines (compareable to wolframalpha) but seemingly based on a bigger/vast pool of data just like standard google searchresults). Since there is hardly any obvious rationale(?) for closeing down "Google Labs" it pictures google as being either less supportive or even hostile to new inoventions and less responsible with usergenerated content or more secretive about their ongoing projects than one might thought before or than Google might was before indeed. 1 Jan 2011 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' closed on May 3, 2011 and deleted everything on May 31, 2011. Users who heard about the closure were given the options of either transferring their photos and videos over to dotPhoto.com or purchasing a DVD with their content for $15.00.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* April 16: '''[[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]''' shutdown on 16. April 2011 without warning. Ongoing reconstruction Efforts. A lot of Images and Articles are probably lost. (The replacement OhInternet is a very strongly sanitized Version of ED.) <s>ED is claiming that they are in danger of shutting down. Despite the controversial nature of many articles hosted on the wiki, this would be a big loss of historical records.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* March 16: '''Microsoft''' closed '''Windows Live Spaces''' on March 16, 2011. Spaces owners had the option to migrate their blogs to '''WordPress''' or to make copies. As of January 4, 2011, they could no longer edit their existing Spaces.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* February 22: The [[Insurgency Wiki]] is a wiki with a community that created multiple guides and raids for Anonymous, in a similar manner to [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]. It's status has always been unclear, with many mirrors coming and going. But as of Feb. 22, 2012, the last mirror, Partyvan.info, looks like it has some damning database error. Just in case, the Bibliotheca Anonoma has made a full backup, including all available images available.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* January: The wiki hosting site '''wik.is''', hosted by MindTouch, shut down on the first week of January 2011; the explanation being that "in order to continue to support the growing needs of our MindTouch Express users, we are offering MindTouch Cloud", which "opens up additional features and functionality that are not available in Wik.is.". The only way you'd know all that is if you receive a warning e-mail from MindTouch. They offer to keep your site running by "upgrading to our paid Cloud version by {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' was a small social network started as a side venture by CareerBuilder.com in August 2009. It was quietly shutdown November 2010 without much fanfare. At its height it has 100k users.<br />
* October 31: '''isweb lite''', the Japanese GeoCities, shut down on October 31. Thousands of personal homepages of artists and illustrators were deleted forever. A tiny sample of the pages deleted: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* Mid-2010: '''[[JuniorNet]]''', a subscription based online portal for children, was quietly shut down nearly a decade after it dot-bombed and was acquired by former employees.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', once a popular Finnish web site associated with electronic dance music, clubbing/raving, and the other related things was closed in March after been running for years. All the content posted to the forums of the site was, however, obtained and made available by {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* December 6: '''favrd''', a website that aggregated favorite tweets from twitter, abruptly shut down on December 6, 2009 with absolutely no warning, killing off thousands of highlighted entries added by group-consensus over significant months. As a reward for their efforts, founder Dean Allen wrote this helpful message: ''"Alas, stars on Twitter have become mere take-out menus hung on the doors of other restaurants. There are still lots of clever and funny things to read every day, but finding these is no longer a challenge â you already follow your sources. Sites like this one now serve mainly as fuel for emotional up-fuckedness in the guise of a game. Just an idea: next time you see something you like, write the person who made it a note telling them so. Even better, explain why. Take care!"'' Advice to people who want to work with Dean Allen's projects in the future: don't.<br />
* November: '''here.is''' seems to permanently off-line. It ceased to re-direct email for some time ago and as per 11-23-09 it doesn't redirect even URLs any longer.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* October 31: '''Microsoft Encarta''', the online encyclopedia with a 15+ year history, is being shut down. The US version will shut down on October 31, 2009 and the Japanese version on December 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* August 30ish: '''ArchNacho's & TortillaGodzilla's Quality ROMs''', a site that hosted ROMs for NES, SNES, and Genesis games, which has announced its effective death back in January 2006, is now finally completely inaccessible, both on its original domain {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. The Wayback Machine contains a mirror of the site up through August 30, 2007, which is after all updates to the site ceased. All ROMs hosted on QualityRoms are included in the mirror and can be downloaded from there.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> that they are closing up shop on July 13, 2009. Of course, you can still register an account but that's the first thing you're told.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} on June 25, 2009 that they were "simplifying" things and deleting all user-generated photos and videos uploaded by users. They gave everyone '''five days''' to get their photos off, and then extended it to ''twenty days'' from the ensuing hue and cry. The uploaded videos had no way to extract them back.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' became the latest example of Yahoo!'s awesome respect for history and data, announcing the closure of the video hosting and editing site, for June 15, 2009. A software utility has been released to allow you to download the movies from Jumpcut. Otherwise, you are not in great shape - Yahoo says you can move your videos to Flickr, but Flickr cuts off at 90 seconds. A lot of homemade video is going to disappear.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* April 20: '''{{url|1=http://www.coghead.com|2=Coghead}}''', " a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications and a software as a platform 'utility computing' company", announced it had closed up on February 20, 2009, and that the site would go down permanently on April 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|1=http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=349}}</ref>. It did.<br />
* April 17: '''{{url|1=http://furl.net/|2=Furl}}''' was a social bookmarking service that had been around since 2004. It was acquired by Diigo (announced on March 9), allowed people to opt into transferring their bookmarks to Diigo, and shut down on April 17.<ref>blog.diigo.com/2009/03/16/welcome-furl-users/ (link blocked by spam filter)</ref><ref>{{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/09/diigo-buys-web-page-clipping-service-furl-away-from-looksmart/|2=Techcrunch post}}</ref><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* March 31: It doesn't get more ironic than this: '''{{url|1=https://www.upline.com/|2=Upline}}''', a HP-owned online backup service, is being shut down.<ref>{{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10173136-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5}}</ref> ''They almost immediately turned off the backup process,'' and then announced all your restorable data would go offline on March 31, roughly 30 days after announcement. Surprise!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|Yahoo Briefcase]]''', a positively ancient site run by Yahoo that provided you with 25 free megabytes of storage space for your junk, sent a mail to what were likely years-old contact addresses to tell them they had a little more than a month to get their files out, March 30, 2009. After that, the files would be deleted. What, Yahoo doesn't have a spare memory stick to store what must be the amount of files in this service for the next year?<br />
* March 25: '''Yahoo! Farechase''', an airline fare aggregation and searching site, was shut down on March 25, 2009. It had previously been its own company, founded in 1999, and purchased by Yahoo! in 2004. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "a FREE service that lets you download over 3 million songs and videos, legally and safely", pulled up stakes in the night and completely shut down on March 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> Initially, reports indicated it would shut down the website as well as the paper, but a plan was apparently in place to run a "skeleton crew" on an internet-only site, which continues to operate.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' had a combination database and backup failure, losing: "All votes, ever. All member usernames who registered later than around 12 months ago. All member rankings. Your member profile info (e.g., bio, favorite sift, etc.), if any. All activity that happened on the site yesterday, March 11." This is unlikely to kill the site, but an awful lot of data was lost.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', a "citizen journalism" site run by Getty images to allow the uploading of images by citizen journalists and the chance to be licensed to news organizations, announced they would no longer take any new imagery after February 6, 2009, and will shut down completely on March 6, 2009. Some content uploaders "may" be contacted about being absorbed into the main Getty site.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' was redirected to Last.fm. The free music it offered does not seem to have been transferred, however (the band Ancient Teknologi had several tracks available on music.download.com, but only one available on Last.fm). As of 28 February, it claimed to have 111.052 MP3s.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> We're watching to see what happens with the website (and the material, and the newspaper itself). With a 150-year history, there's a lot of backstory, and how this chronicler of history will end up, so too will many others. There is an excellent documentary about the last days of the Rocky Mountain News {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* February 23: '''Windows Live''' shut down the '''MSN Groups''' on February 23. They extended their original date from February 21st to give Group owners the weekend to prepare. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' had a catastrophic disk corruption/failure on January 31, 2009. From the message on the main site: ''"As I evaluate recovery options, I can't provide a certain timeline or prognosis as to to when or to what degree Ma.gnolia or your bookmarks will return; only that this process will take days, not hours."'' Ma.gnolia had an excellent export feature... hope you used it and did the backups they didn't!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, one of the site's heavily used social bookmarking features (somewhat like delicious for images) will remain up for a few weeks to allow users to save their stuff.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|AOL Pictures]]''' said so long on January 9, 2009. To their credit, you can still yank your stuff into other photo services until June 2009. (At least, according to their goodbye letter.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* October 27: '''Digitalrailroad.net''', a photo hosting site, gave their users a 24-hour eviction notice on October 27, 2008. They shut down 10 hours after the 24-hour notice. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: '''Flip.com''', a social network for teenage girls, shut down on December 16, 2008. Users were advised to print out their digital scrapbooks as backups. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' was shut down on December 8, 2008. A lot of people complained about this one, while others thanked the site for shutting down and wished the founder well! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' failed to provide bloggers with the traffic they so desperately desired, and the creator admitted on October 29, 2008 that his 4AM idea may not have been so brilliant. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> The amount of broken hearts and anguish over this move was amazing, and a warning sign to any family-oriented site that encourages families to join up.<br />
** Some of the more anguished fans have gotten together in various forms to recreate VMK, including {{url|1=http://game.myvmk.com/|2=MyVMK}}, {{url|1=http://www.vmkrevisited.com/|2=VMKRevisted}} (a memorial site), and {{url|1=http://www.openvmk.com/|2=OpenVMK}} (although OpenVMK shutdown due to {{url|1=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qTdpgcLUd-Hg6-FZzkVEju4x1aMlhbMNX6snlUNgnOM/|2=internal squabbles}}.)<br />
* February 14: '''[[wikipedia:Think_Secret]]''' was killed by Apple and shut down on February 14, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/12/apple-and-think.html}}</ref><br />
* July 31: '''Social.fm''' couldn't stand up to Last.fm, and died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10005554-36.html}}</ref><br />
* May 15: '''Brijit.com''', a news aggregation site, closed on May 15, 2008. It might be closed for good. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9945059-36.html}}</ref><br />
* February: '''Yahoo! Design''', a showcase of designing and information aesthetics related to the Yahoo! properties, got revised into oblivion in February, 2008 as part of a 1,000 employee layoff. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (Internet Underground Music Archive), of Santa Cruz, California, the actual first website to offer free hosting of bands including MP3 files of music offered by the bands, was mostly archived by John Gilmore before going down. At least one IUMA founder now has a copy of that archive. This ~800GB collection has been [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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* '''[[Berlios.de]]''' <s>will {{url|1=http://www.berlios.de/|2=shut down at end of 2011}}. The site hosts thousands of open source software projects (git, svn, bzr, mailing lists, bug tracking, etc.). {{url|1=http://developer.berlios.de/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2056&group_id=2|2=Instructions for exporting a project.}} Berlios is still open and they are now</s> {{url|1=http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/german-open-source-development-site-berlios-joins-sourceforge|2=partnered with sourceforge}} to keep things running.<br />
* '''[[Citizendium]]''''s finances {{url|1=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-08/News_and_notes|2=constantly cry for money}}. Running a MediaWiki site is cheap and Sanger is not homeless, hence it's expected to survive. [[WikiTeam]] archives it on a regular basis.<br />
* '''[[Delicious]]'''<ref>{{url|http://www.delicious.com}}</ref> will be {{url|1=http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/16/delicious.php|2=shutting down soon}}. The whole team was let go yesterday - 15 December 2010. {{url|1=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/16/2220225/Yahoo-To-Close-Delicious|2=Slashdot link}}. Delicious was acquired from Yahoo! in early 2011 by AVOS however all the prior content is gone.<br />
* '''Cli.gs''', another URL shortening service, announced closure: "On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics."<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/cligs-shutting-down}}</ref> In December 2009, it was announced that the "social bookmarking" site Mister Wong has acquired cli.gs and are keeping it running.<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/mister-wong-acquires-cligs}}</ref> All aboard the [[TinyURL]] project. <br />
* '''{{url|1=https://duck.co/topic/soft-launch-of-the-new-forum|2=Duck.co}}''', the official DuckDuckGo community forums, transitioned to their {{url|1=https://dukgo.com|2=own platform}} and moved all posts over from their old Zoho forum.<br />
* '''[[Earbits]]''' bites the dust on June 16, 2014, but comes back to life on June 19th, 2014. In between, we grabbed ~130GB of images and ~130k MP3s.<br />
* '''{{URL|http://www.filefront.com/|FileFront}}''' is closing up shop <ref>{{url|http://farewell.filefront.com/}}</ref>. The site will be suspended on March 30, 2009. 1.5 Million files and 48+ TB of space gone just like that. As of April 2, 2009, it looks like there may have been an 11th hour reprieve for Filefront: according to a message reportedly from the original founders of the service<ref>{{url|http://welcome.filefront.com/}}</ref>, the site has been re-acquired by them in order to prevent its proposed shuttering. On 2010-11-30, FileFront rebranded to [[GameFront]]<ref>{{URL|http://www.gamefront.com/welcome-to-the-gamefront-launch-center/}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[Google Video]]''' threatened to remove all hosted videos with two weeks' notice in April 2011. It backed down after criticism and an archive effort by the Archive Team.<br />
* '''Home of the Underdogs''' went under on Feb 9th<ref>{{url|http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2009/02/13/rip-hotu/}}</ref>. There has been some passed along words by the site's owner, now working at an NGO, that an attempt to bring it back may happen. (She definitely has backups of the site.) A community-driven effort to revive the site is currently underway <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org}}</ref>. Backups were restored, and the remaining files (1,000+) collected from the community. As of Jan 4th 2010, HOTU is reporting that files are back online <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org/component/content/article/25133-files-online-and-import-done}}</ref><br />
* '''[[JPG Magazine]]''' announced it would shut down on January 5, 2009 <ref>{{url|http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/01/jpg_magazine_says_goodbye.html}}</ref>, but the site lives {{url|1=http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/02/an_exciting_future_for_jpg.html|2=lives on under new ownership}}. Feel free to download the {{url|http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4624703/|torrent}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{url|http://kiwifarms.net/|Kiwi Farms}}, a notorious forum that mocks [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolcow "lolcows"], was shut down on January 20, 2017 without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later.<br />
* '''[[Linux Journal]]''': Announced on 1 December 2017 that it is ceasing publication.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication}}</ref> Announced on 1 January 2018 that it has been unexpectedly rescued.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-new-year-linux-journal-alive}}</ref><br />
* '''[[MobyGames]]''', the largest database of old game releases on the net, with huge amount of content found nowhere else. Was bought by [[GameFly]] in 2010 and received a new site design in September 2013, which made almost all contributors emigrate. Many site features have disappeared or became broken in the new design, and their large database of cover art and screenshots had problems loading. In December 2013, the site was bought by {{url|1=http://blueflamelabs.com/|2=Blue Flame Labs}}, who have restored the old site design and managed to draw back pretty much all the contributors. It seems that the site is going back to full health again. <br />
* {{url|https://nyaa.se|'''[[nyaa]]'''}} shut down at May 2 2017 due to copyright problem, and {{url|https://nyaa.si|revival at 10 day after}}.<br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* Video host '''[[Viddler]]''' announces in an {{url|1=http://mad.ly/5ae274?pact=20251445218&fe=1|2=e-mail newsletter}} that they're shutting down free accounts on March 11, 2014. But Archive Team kicked in and began to suck up the place until the owners told us to stop. Videos won't be permanently deleted.<br />
* '''[[WebCite]]''' &ndash; Has a habit of crying for money, threatening it will stop accepting submissions. Since October 2013, the Wayback Machine archives pages on demand, hence there's no reason to use a site like WebCite that declares self at risk. It's expected that they'll send their data to Internet Archive if they ever really have to shut down.<br />
* '''[[Word Count Journal]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wordcountjournal.com/about}}) is shutting down on June 11, 2011 '''UPDATE''' The site is fully up and running. (checked on October 21, 2011) '''UPDATE2''': Non-functional, but the website is up with this notice "Word Count Journal is no longer being supported." (checked on January 26th, 2012)<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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=== Tragic ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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=== Humorous ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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== Shutdown notice ==<br />
At the end of October<ref>Between [https://web.archive.org/web/20181030194752/http://forum.jogos.uol.com.br/ 2018-10-30 19:47 UTC] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20181031182439/http://forum.jogos.uol.com.br/ 2018-10-31 18:24 UTC]</ref>, the following notice was added at the top of the forum:<br />
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'''O Fórum UOL está em processo de desativação.'''<br />
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No dia 03/12/2018 o Fórum passará para o modo "apenas leitura", em que não será possível criar tópicos e respostas.<br />
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A desativação completa do Fórum será feita no dia 07/01/2019.<br />
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Este fórum fez parte da história de gerações de brasileiros. Agradecemos a todos os foristas que participaram disso.<br />
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'''The UOL Forums will be deactivated soon.'''<br />
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On the 3rd of December 2018, the forum will be switched to read-only mode, and it will no longer be possible to create topics or replies.<br />
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The complete deactivation of the forum will take place on the 7th of January 2019.<br />
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This forum was part of the history of generations of Brazilians. Thanks to everyone who participated in this.<br />
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After the switch to read-only, the second line was replaced with:<br />
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Conforme comunicado anteriormente, o Fórum está em modo "apenas leitura", por isso não é mais possível criar tópicos e respostas.<br />
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(As announced previously, the forum is now in read-only mode, and it is no longer possible to create topics or replies.)<br />
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== Site structure ==<br />
There are four main forums: Jogos, Esporte, Televisão, and Tecnologia. In addition, there is a "beta" site for the Jogos forums, which contains different contents than the "main" Jogos forums.<br />
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A custom forum software is used. Thread IDs appear to be shared between the four forums, but a thread is only accessible on the forum it is attached to. The beta Jogos forums are separate.<br />
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The forums claim that there are 7429702 threads with 179927292 posts, but this doesn't match up with either the thread IDs, which end at about 4.5 million, or the post IDs, which end at about 78.7 million. (While these latter numbers refer only to the main forums, the beta Jogos forums are small in comparison, containing only 213k threads with 3.7M posts.)<br />
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In fact, all the electronic information data of our time, are facing the risk of disappearing in the future.<br />
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Maybe someday in the future, our understanding of the 21st century will be far less than the 20th century. At least at that time, the way of recording was paper or film, which might still be readable in the future. And now we are using more cloud storage.<br />
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Will we avoid the <u style="display:inline-block;">digital dark age</u>?<br />
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In fact, all the electronic information data of our time, are facing the risk of disappearing in the future.<br />
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Maybe someday in the future, our understanding of the 21st century will be far less than the 20th century. At least at that time, the way of recording was paper or film, which might still be readable in the future. And now we are using more cloud storage.<br />
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Copyright law is just an pretext of censorship<br />
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Who fucking gives government the power to <b style="color:red;display:inline-block">LEGITIMATE BOOK-BURNING</b>?<br />
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If government can burn the so-called "copyright-infringing" content, how can guarantee they will not abuse them? Talk is cheap.<br />
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Will we avoid the <u style="display:inline-block;">digital dark age</u>?<br />
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In fact, all the electronic information data of our time, are facing the risk of disappearing in the future.<br />
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Maybe someday in the future, our understanding of the 21st century will be far less than the 20th century. At least at that time, the way of recording was paper or film, which might still be readable in the future. And now we are using more cloud storage.<br />
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Copyright law is just an excuse of censorship<br />
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Who fucking gives government the power to <b style="color:red;display:inline-block">LEGITIMATE BOOK-BURNING</b>?<br />
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If government can burn the so-called "copyright-infringing" content, how can guarantee they will not abuse them? Talk is cheap.<br />
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'''TinyURL''', '''bit.ly''' and other similar services allow long URLs to be converted to smaller ones on their specific service; the small URL is visited by a consumer and their web browser is redirected to the long URL.<br />
<br />
Such services are a ticking timebomb. If they go away, get hacked or sell out millions of links will be lost (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot Wikipedia: Link Rot]). [http://www.archive.org/details/301works Archive.org]/301Works is acting as an escrow for URL shortener databases, but they rely on URL shorteners to actually give them their databases. Even 301Works founding member ''bit.ly'' does not actually share their databases and most other big shorteners don't share theirs either.<br />
<br />
== 301Work cooperation ==<br />
[[Image:301works logo.jpg|thumb]]<br />
The fine folks at archive.org have provided us with upload permissions to the 301Works archive: [http://www.archive.org/details/301utm http://www.archive.org/details/301utm]. They unfortunately do not want to make them downloadable, but the same data is in our torrents too, just in a different format (we use pipe-delimited, xz-compressed files while 301works uses comma-delimited uncompressed files).<br />
<br />
== Tools ==<br />
* [https://github.com/chronomex/urlteam fetcher.pl]: Perl-based scraper by [[User:Chronomex]]<br />
* [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/tinyback TinyBack]: Python 2.x-based, distributed scraper (formerly used)<br />
* [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/terroroftinytown-client-grab Terror of Tiny Town]: currently used by ArchiveTeam<br />
<br />
=== Terror of Tiny Town ===<br />
The easiest way to help with scraping is to run the [[Warrior]] and select the ''URLTeam 2'' project. You can also run ToTT outside the warrior; to do so, follow the instructions at https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/terroroftinytown-client-grab.<br />
<br />
== Researching URL Shorteners ==<br />
Here's what to do when you've come across a new URL shortener that should be archived. At minimum, please follow the first step. Anything beyond that is more helpful. Even if you don't know of any shorteners not on the list, additions, updates or verification of the information in existing shortener entries is very welcome!<br />
<br />
* Add it to the [[URLTeam#Alive|Alive]] section of this page in alphabetical order and include the current date. Please include whatever information you have, but at the absolute minimum, we need the domain.<br />
** To add a new shortener to the [[URLTeam#Alive|Alive]] section, you can follow this template:<br />
<pre><br />
|- <br />
| shortener url || date (YYYY-MM-DD) <br />
| information you have gathered on the shortener <br />
</pre><br />
* Check the homepage. Is there a public method to create a shorturl? If so, create one and include it in the entry. If not, note that in the entry.<br />
* If you were able to create a shorturl, try making a second. Is it sequential? For example, if the first link was foo.bar/dbE4g and the second link is foo.bar/dbE4h (or very close to it), it's probably sequential. If you get foo.bar/dbE4g followed by foo.bar/g4rTh, it's probably random. Note in the entry whether the shorturls are random or sequential.<br />
* Run <code>curl -I http://url.short/validshortcode</code> and see which HTTP status code is returned. Also note whether it returns the destination in the Location: header. Note both in the entry.<br />
* Run <code>curl -I http://url.short/invalidshortcode</code> and see which HTTP status code is returned. Note that in the entry.<br />
* If the above fails, make a note of it in the entry and try using <code>curl -i</code> instead of <code>curl -I</code><br />
* Check the homepage, and see if they give a total number of shorturls that their service provides. If so, note that in the entry.<br />
* There are browser plugins/extensions available to make the requests described above from your browser for those without access to <code>curl</code>/command line. (Examples: Advanced REST Client, REST Console)<br />
<br />
=== Common numbers ===<br />
Suitable for use as sequence numbers.<br />
{| class="sortable wikitable"<br />
| 26 letters + 10 digits || 36<br />
|-<br />
| 26 lower case letters + 26 upper case letters + 10 digits || 62<br />
|-<br />
| 36 possibilities ** 3 characters || 46656<br />
|-<br />
| 62 possibilities ** 3 characters || 238328<br />
|-<br />
| 62 ** 4 characters || 14776336<br />
|-<br />
| 62 ** 5 || 916132832<br />
|-<br />
| 62 ** 6 || 56,800,235,584 (too big to cover completely)<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== URL shorteners ==<br />
=== Non-warrior projects ===<br />
These are old grabs pre-dating the warrior project. Unless otherwise noted, they can be found in [https://archive.org/details/URLTeamTorrentRelease2013July the last old-style dump on IA].<br />
<br />
The ''# in dump'' field refers to the number of short URLs included in the last old-style dump.<br />
<br />
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="width: auto; text-align: center"<br />
! Name<br />
! Est. number of shorturls<br />
! Scraping done by<br />
! Status<br />
! Comments<br />
! # in dump<br />
! Example URL<br />
|-<br />
| goo.gl<br />
| ?<br />
| [[User:Scumola]]<br />
| started (2011-03-04)<br />
| goo.gl throttles pulls. Didn't make it into the last old-style dump. Unavailable as of August 2017.<br />
| 0<br />
| ?<br />
|-<br />
| ff.im<br />
| ?<br />
| [[User:Chronomex]]<br />
| Dead<br />
| only used by FriendFeed. No interface to shorten new URLs. Redirects to Facebook as of 18:51, 19 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
| 1,189,782<br />
| <nowiki>http://ff.im/2p</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| 4url.cc<br />
| 1279 (2009-08-14)<br />
| [[User:Chronomex]]<br />
| done<br />
| dead (2011-02-15). Redirect to ad-laden site as of 18:51, 19 June 2016 (EDT). Also on [https://github.com/chronomex/urlteam/blob/master/ripped/4url.cc.txt GitHub]<br />
| 1,279<br />
| <nowiki>http://4url.cc/Q</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| litturl.com<br />
| 17096 (2010-04-15)<br />
| [[User:Chronomex]]<br />
| done<br />
| dead (2010-11-18). No DNS as of 18:51, 19 June 2016 (EDT). Also on [https://github.com/chronomex/urlteam/blob/master/ripped/litturl.com.txt GitHub]<br />
| 17,096<br />
| <nowiki>http://litturl.com/ZTT</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| xs.md<br />
| 3084 (2009-08-15)<br />
| [[User:Chronomex]]<br />
| done<br />
| dead (2010-11-18). Homepage claims to be "a private folder" as of 18:51, 19 June 2016 (EDT). Also on [https://github.com/chronomex/urlteam/blob/master/ripped/xs.md.txt GitHub]<br />
| 3,084<br />
| <nowiki>http://xs.md/AAZ</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| url.0daymeme.com<br />
| 14867 (2009-08-14)<br />
| [[User:Chronomex]]<br />
| done<br />
| dead (2010-11-18). Also on [https://github.com/chronomex/urlteam/blob/master/ripped/url.0daymeme.com.txt GitHub]<br />
| 14,867<br />
| ?<br />
|-<br />
| tr.im (old)<br />
| 1990425<br />
| ?<br />
| got what we could<br />
| dead (2011-12-31)<br />
| 1,990,425<br />
| ?<br />
|-<br />
| visibli (hex)<br />
| 16777216<br />
| [[User:Chfoo]] [[Warrior]]<br />
| done<br />
| Using links.sharedby.co/links/ as URL prefix. Available on [https://archive.org/details/sharedby_links_urls_20130902 IA]<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
|-<br />
| post.ly ([[Posterous]])<br />
| ?<br />
| [[Warrior]]/EC2<br />
| done<br />
| dead. Divided up in 11 files in the last old-style dump.<br />
| 153,281,595<br />
| <nowiki>http://post.ly/3000a</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| zapd.co ([[Zapd]])<br />
| 326592<br />
| [[User:Chfoo]]<br />
| done<br />
| xxxx.zapd.co. Available on [https://archive.org/details/urlteam_zapd_co IA]<br />
| 0<br />
| ?<br />
|-<br />
| bre.ad ([[Bre.ad]])<br />
| 120932351<br />
| [[User:Chfoo]]<br />
| incomplete (59771889 examined)<br />
| de.ad (2013-11-18). Got what I can without overloading their EC2 instance. Available on [https://archive.org/details/urlteam_bread IA]<br />
| 0<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| arseh.at<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.<br />
| 23,655<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| bit.ly<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| divided up into 3,835 files in the last old-style dump, totaling 39 GB (compressed!). Also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.<br />
| 1,507,816,439<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| is.gd<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| divided up into 125 files (totally 8.5 GB) in the last old-style dump. Also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.<br />
| 302,434,257<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| kl.am<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Dead (as of 03:00, 3 December 2015 (EST))<br />
| 1,870,335<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| links.sharedby.co<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| <br />
| 9,298,101<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| ow.ly<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| divided up into 23 files (totaling 4.5 GB) in the last old-style dump. Also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.<br />
| 328,901,265<br />
| ?<br />
|-<br />
| surl.ws<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Yes, there really are only 48 listed.<br />
| 48<br />
| ?<br />
|-<br />
| tny.im<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| <br />
| 1,614<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| snipurl.com<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| divided up into 8 files in the last old-style dump (for a total of 6.8 GB compressed, though). Also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.<br />
| 368,750,225<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| tinyurl.com<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| divided up into 60 files (totaling 9.4 GB) in the last old-style dump. Also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.<br />
| 470,413,092<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| tr.im (new)<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| in the last old-style dump as a file called tr.im-relaunched.txt.xz<br />
| 1,266,068<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| ur1.ca<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| (Note this is named "ur" followed by the digit one, not L.) This got from "0" to "dzzzz". There is also a Warrior project, ''ur1-ca'', below, which continued the grab up to "j5tc9".<br />
| 8,432,282<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| vbly.us<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.<br />
| 114,924<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| xym.kr<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| <br />
| 144<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| twitter-unrolled-urls-spritzer-stream<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| in a 4.6GB file named: twitter-unrolled-urls-spritzer-stream-20111015-20130318.txt.xz ; there's a note about it in the README file<br />
| 257,993,902<br />
| ?<br />
|- class="sortbottom"<br />
! Name<br />
! Number of shorturls<br />
! Scraping done by<br />
! Status<br />
! Comments<br />
! # in dump<br />
! Example URL<br />
|}<br />
<br />
For the last TinyTown updates, please see [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/110A9rzVxWtpc2Qa3Scr4vmVOTsdihw2CN0gqqK2kDvY/edit?usp=sharing chfoo's spreadsheet].<br />
<br />
=== Warrior projects ===<br />
<!-- arguments are: project-name, example url, comment<br />
{{subst:urlteam blank warrior entry|||}}<br />
--><br />
<br />
Pink background refers to currently running projects; gray background to ones that aren't currently making new short URLs.<br />
<br />
Use <nowiki>{{subst:</nowiki>[[Template:urlteam blank warrior entry|urlteam blank warrior entry]]|}} to add new entries. The parameters are project-name, example URL, and comment, in that order.<br />
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="width: auto; text-align: center"<br />
! Warrior project name<br />
! Est. # shorturls<br />
! Last scraped date<br />
! Initially scraped date<br />
! # checked<br />
! Example URL<br />
! Incr<br />
! Comments<br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|0rz-tw}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-06-19<br />
| 2015-12-20<br />
| 904,730,750<br />
| http://0rz.tw/6eX6j<br />
| ?<br />
| Has a list of existing URLs on front page; all 5 characters long; scrape (2015-12 -- 2016-06) checked all 5 character possibilities, found 23,009,383 shortcodes.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|1r-hu}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-12-02<br />
| 2014-12-02<br />
| 1,346,050<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Done<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|2-gp}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-20<br />
| 2015-12-14<br />
| 17,780,989<br />
| http://2.gp/GDYZ (created 21:34, 21 November 2015 (EST))<br />
| Y<br />
| 4-character alphanumeric (excluding "similar looking letters"); seems to check that URL resolves; returns 302 for existing '''AND''' non-existing shortcodes (just returns "Location: /" for non-existing ones); checked all 4 character ones, and some 5 characters in 2015-12-14 through 2015-12-20 scrape<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|2jump-info}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-12-02<br />
| 2014-12-02<br />
| 298,949<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Banned<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|2-ly}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-20<br />
| 2015-12-14 <br />
| 21,739,150<br />
| http://2.ly/xr<br />
| Y<br />
| looks very similar to 2.gp (but not an alias); returns 302 for existing '''AND''' non-existing shortcodes (just returns "Location: /" for non-existing ones); checked all 4 character ones, and some 5 characters in 2015-12-14 through 2015-12-20 scrape<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|7-ly}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-09-16<br />
| 2016-02-27<br />
| 41,660,850<br />
| <nowiki>http://7.ly/G9</nowiki> <nowiki>http://7.ly/nBCq</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| seems alive as of 2016-08-19; stopped on 2016-03-13 after accidentally storing a bunch of redirects to the home page;<br />
appears to allow public shortening; "no similar looking letters; small or capital letters only"; ; HEAD works; 302 for valid AND invalid; invalid points to homepage;restarted on 2016-09-14 at "1000" (seq # 238328) (then quickly updated to "mzmw" (seq #5379834), because we'd already done the earlier part)<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|adjix}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-1-24<br />
| 2014-12-13 <br />
| 8,615,100<br />
| http://adjix.com/45fj<br />
| ?<br />
| Dead; uses custom code. As of 12th December 2018.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|a-gg}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-02-27<br />
| 2016-02-27<br />
| 17,150<br />
| http://a.gg/es<br />
| Y<br />
| 292 found on 2016-02-27; nice picture of a robot; seems alive as of 02:12, 26 December 2015 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|alturl-com}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-05-27<br />
| 2015-03-06<br />
| 39,367,900 <br />
| http://alturl.com/wqok<br />
| ?<br />
| Appears to redirect to http://shorturl.com ; Probably sequential/loweralpha; uses custom code<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|ar-gy}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-12-18<br />
| 2014-12-17<br />
| 3,303,100<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Appears down; Argyle Social, main page 404s, existing urls still work<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|arseh-at}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-01-15<br />
| 2015-01-11<br />
| 1,842,350<br />
| ?<br />
| Y<br />
| Appears down; new shorturls: sequential<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|awe-sm}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-04-04<br />
| 2014-12-24<br />
| 967,591,000<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| main page redirects, doesn't allow for new urls to be publicly shortened, existing urls still work; uses custom code<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|bit-do}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-06-28<br />
| 2016-06-20<br />
| 15,950,550<br />
| <nowiki>http://bit.do/ag4</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| seemed alive as of 2016-06-05; error message says it support digits, letters, dash and underscore; testing seems to show case folding, but they claim (in the FAQ) to be case-sensitive, so we have to test for that.<br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|bitly_6}}<br />
| 50,000,000,000<br />
| {{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}<br />
| 2014-11-22<br />
| 5,241,010,050<br />
| https://bit.ly/1Zmfo8z<br />
| N<br />
| done: non-sequential 6 characters; current: non-sequential, 6 characters; uses custom code<br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|buff-ly}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-03-28<br />
| 2016-03-28<br />
| 42,000<br />
| <nowiki>http://buff.ly/HSRKuV</nowiki><br />
| N<br />
| Buffer App ; ex: <nowiki>http://buff.ly/1fPIjQf</nowiki> (301 - existing; 404 - non-existing), non-incremental (checked as of 02:03, 7 December 2015 (EST)); <nowiki>buff.ly/HSRKuV</nowiki>, <nowiki>buff.ly/1Xj8lhq</nowiki> 3.5Mio - asdASD123, 3.5Mio google hits, 6 and 7 char, Huge shortener. Long running Project for the future. Hosted on 2 servers at softlayer in Phoenix, Az. Protected by prolexic. Seems like it has not implemented rate-limiting. Tested with 500req in 1 min. ; Did some searches of 1, 2, 3 and 5 character codes, with absolutely no results seen.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|bull-hn}}<br />
| 50,000<br />
| 2016-09-06<br />
| 2015-11-15<br />
| 28,861,855<br />
| http://bull.hn/l/19JQE/<br />
| ?<br />
| Vanity URL shortner for a recruiting company, "Bullhorn Reach"; 1st scrape on in Nov 2015, re-scraped in Dec 2015 and again in Sept 2016 (from 10000 to 2T6KA)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|burl-se}}<br />
| 1,500<br />
| 2018-07-27<br />
| 2014-11-06<br />
| 11,650<br />
| http://burl.se/428<br />
| Y<br />
| 200 re-checked on 2015-11-08 ; 63 more found on 2016-06-09 ; full recheck on 2018-07-27<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|ccl-hu}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-15<br />
| 2015-12-15<br />
| 97,261<br />
| http://ccl.hu/h0pyr<br />
| ?<br />
| seems to always return 301, even for non-existing links; random sample didn't find any real ones (checked as of 02:03, 7 December 2015 (EST)); nothing found in 100,000 checks -- I think it's dead. Alive Rechecked 20 July 2016.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|chilp-it}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-15<br />
| 2015-12-15<br />
| 20,000<br />
| http://chilp.it/1d9c9d1<br />
| N<br />
| seems to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 21:52, 21 November 2015 (EST) ; returns 301 for existing '''AND''' non-existing shortcodes (just returns "Location: http://chilp.it/404.php" for non-existing ones); non-incremental; appears to just use lowercase letters and digits; attempted scraping FAILED -- need to look into why<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|cmplx-it}}<br />
| 36,252<br />
| 2017-04-01<br />
| 2017-03-29<br />
| 4,965,750<br />
| cmplx.it/Sh5j<br />
| ?<br />
| 4 to 5 Character, some legacy 6 Character(bitly) ; asdASD123 ;some 1 char, 2 char ; existing: 301, location: ; not existing: 404 ; seems pretty slow, 25k google hits<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|cutt.us}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-02-27<br />
| 2016-01-10<br />
| 78,596,278<br />
| http://cutt.us/url-shortener<br>http://cutt.us/bitdo<br />
| ?<br />
| Requires GET and content regex. Seems blocked as of 2016-02-27, will try again in a while.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|da-gd}}<br />
| 165,000<br />
| 2016-06-16<br />
| 2015-12-14<br />
| 902,018,849<br />
| http://da.gd/dZdp8<br />
| N<br />
| source code: https://github.com/relrod/dagd - Of note, this shortener will pass along anything after the slash: da.gd/g -> google.com; da.gd/g/mail -> google.com/mail ; paused between 2016-02-22 and 2016-03-06 as it seemed to be reacting badly; finished scanning all the 5 character ones -- found 94,400 entries on 2016-06-16. We need to find out if it supports 6 character ones.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|df4-us}}<br />
| 25,133<br />
| 2017-02-18<br />
| 2015-12-18<br />
| 54,400<br />
| http://df4.us/mn4<br />
| ?<br />
| daringfireball.net private shortener : Alive 12-17-2015, no public method to create new URLs. Alphabet appears to be a-z 0-9, most results are 3 characters or less (df4.us/mn4, df4.us/8, df4.us/ib) Valid URLs 301, location is included in header. Invalid URLs 302 to http://daringfireball.net ; on 2015-12-18 -- did a scan of everything up through 3 characters; last found one was seq # 31903 (om7) ; run a rescan next year; rescan on 2017-02-18 from seq# 31900; last found seq # 33417 (ps9) <br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|db-tt}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-12<br />
| 2015-12-05<br />
| 43,421,600<br />
| https://db.tt/FnHZSr77<br>https://db.tt/b5gwXppx<br />
| N<br />
| Official shortner for Dropbox ; most 8 characters; seen a few that are 7 characters) Only found 21 redirects in over 40 million searches; the space has over 200 *trillion* possibilities.<br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|dld-bz}}<br />
| -<br />
| 2015-12-15<br />
| 2015-12-05<br />
| 48,897,650<br />
| http://dld.bz/dGjTy<br />
| ?<br />
| "private URL shortening service"; found 8,639,481 in first scrape; we've pretty much covered everything through 4 characters, plus part of 5<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|dwurl-hu}}<br />
| <br />
| 2015-11-16<br />
| 2015-11-16<br />
| 3,473,050<br />
| http://dwurl.hu/gMEtiA ( created 01:36, 2 November 2015 (EST))<br />
| N<br />
| Allows public shortening; appears to give 6 character, mixed case alphabetic (no digits), non-incremental URLs<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|feedly_8}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-01-03<br />
| 2015-01-03<br />
| 129,762,450<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Banned; uses custom code<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|flip-it}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-11-30<br />
| 2016-06-6<br />
| 558,342,350<br />
| flip.it/3gM3q flip.it/0KQWN<br />
| ?<br />
| Flipboard -- Heavily used, 5 characters, [a-zA-Z0-9_], looks random from recent google site:flip.it results. GET and HEAD, valid: 302 with destination in Location:, invalid: 404<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|fos-hu }}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-06-06<br />
| 2016-06-06<br />
| 672,650<br />
| http://fos.hu/b54 http://fos.hu/b55 <br />
| ?<br />
| incremental alphanumeric, but shares pattern with an image sharing service -- Allows creation of new shortlinks, 3 characters, [a-z0-9], sequential. Attached image sharing service: http://fos.hu/b56 (points to http://fos.hu/?funkcio=kepnezegeto&h=46cda5622ef666c7af4ec58b56bd0c0c) GET and HEAD, valid returns 302 with destination in Location:, invalid returns 302 to Location: http://fos.hu/?nincsmeg ; Found 15,958 in 2016-06 scrape.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|fwdurl-net}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-03-06<br />
| 2015-11-16<br />
| 35,151,181<br />
| http://fwdurl.net/uDRZ4TGAj6V (created Nov 16, 2015) <br>http://fwdurl.net/aYwa (created Dec 17, 2013) <br>http://fwdurl.net/bjkDtwYAoWSF (created Dec 4, 2015) <br> http://fwdurl.net/JEcCYlS1Qywv (created Dec 28, 2015)<br />
| ?<br />
| responds very slowly; stats (including creation date, & hit count) available by suffixing "!"<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|getsatisfaction-com}}<br />
| 8,450,272<br />
| 2017-10-11<br />
| 2017-10-09<br />
| 9,214,450<br />
| <nowiki>https://getsatisfaction.com/t/2aoq7</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| Alias gsfn.us, see below<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|gg-gg}}<br />
| 5,091,505<br />
| 2017-09-13<br />
| 2017-05-15<br />
| 108,543,250<br />
| <nowiki>http://gg.gg/4jkvk</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| Seems to be sequential five-character lower-case alphanumeric, 301 on success, 302 to homepage on error.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|gkurl-us}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-11-30<br />
| 2016-11-19<br />
| 13,666,000<br />
| <nowiki>http://gkurl.us/au</nowiki> <nowiki>http://gkurl.us/sloon</nowiki> <nowiki>http://gkurl.us/y2tZa</nowiki><br />
| N<br />
| appears to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 22:00, 21 November 2015 (EST); fully checked up through 3-character range; only found custom-names in 4-character range so far<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|go-usa-gov}}<br />
| 3,495,950 (as of 01:13, 31 March 2017 (EDT))<br />
| ?<br />
| 2017-03-21<br />
| 60909850<br />
| https://go.usa.gov/cSFeH<br />
| N<br />
| USA government shortlinks, non-sequential, appears to be 5 char [a-zA-Z0-9], may be worth getting a mapping from gibberish to URL; see also 1.USA.gov which is a bit.ly alias ; anyone with a US gov email address can create shorturls to gov web pages<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|hec-su}}<br />
| 518175<br />
| 2015-12-25<br />
| 2015-12-21<br />
| <br />
| https://hec.su/cm5B<br />
| Y<br />
| hec-su was doing some type of slow ban; will need to figure out a way around it<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|hoblu-es}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-06-28<br />
| 2016-06-21<br />
| 23,219,250<br />
| http://hoblu.es/acb<br />
| ?<br />
| private, for the House of Blues concert venue chain; 1-3(maybe 4) character; uppercase, lowercase and digits; legacy 6 Char links (looks like imported bitly links); some Custom strings; existing: 301, Location; not existing: 302, 404 private: /admin, /admin/ <br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|hub-me-a}}<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| 2017-10-13<br />
| 0<br />
| <nowiki>http://hub dot me/alvyn</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| "a"-type links of hub.me, internal shortener of HubPages. The shortcode in this project is only the part after the leading "a" (e.g. "lvyn" for the example). See below for details.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|isgd_6}}<br />
| 934,134,706 (as of 2013-05-20)<br />
| 2016-05-27<br />
| 2014-11-22<br />
| 2,585,756,925<br />
| http://is.gd/mBNPCM<br />
| ?<br />
| done: sequential up to ZZZZZ ; new shorturls: non-sequential, 6 characters; uses custom code; paused for now (on 2016-05-27) since it switched to HTTPS only, and some of the warriors haven't been updated to support that. TODO: Fix this.<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|jdem-cz}}<br />
| 1,424,052<br />
| 2015-12-15<br />
| 2015-12-15<br />
| 1,000<br />
| http://jdem.cz/bw388<br />
| Y(?)<br />
| random (?) last digit; attempted scraping FAILED -- need to look into why<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|kas-pr}}<br />
| 114,652<br />
| 2017-10-09<br />
| 2017-10-09<br />
| 1,740,350<br />
| https://kas.pr/x4Hq<br />
| ?<br />
| Internal shortener of Kaspersky Lab. Codes are case-insensitive, so only scanning lower-case. Non-sequential, mostly 4 characters long (but some shorter ones exist as well). Stopped after no five-char codes up to <code>11acz</code> were found.<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|kcy-me}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-11-22<br />
| 2014-11-06<br />
| 5,239,050<br />
| http://kcy.me/28trr<br />
| ?<br />
| Shortening service for http://karmacracy.com ; requires free account to create short URLs ; ran initially for one day, re-checked a year later; parking page as of 04:40, 28 July 2018 (UTC)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|korta-nu}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-11-22<br />
| 2015-04-11<br />
| 12,767,850<br />
| http://korta.nu/9ob<br />
| ?<br />
| Initial run ended on 2015-05-27; doing a 2nd pass through the 3-character values starting 2015-11-22<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|lnk-sk}}<br />
| 24,000<br />
| 2015-12-28<br />
| 2015-12-18<br />
| 6,564,050<br />
| http://lnk.sk/6aw <br />
| Y<br />
| site is alive as of 01:31, 9 December 2015 (EST); returns 302 for both existing and non-existing URLs; 82,310 found in scrape up to rxJQ. Dead 403 on both main webpage and test url Rechecked 20 July 2016.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|lnq-me}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-10-26<br />
| 2016-10-6<br />
| 50,037,400<br />
| http://lnq.me/DnXtHO ; lnq.me/qhuG07, lnq.me/lbLqT0<br />
| ?<br />
| alive as of 2015-11-21 ; 6-character, alphanumeric, seems-non-incremental ; http://lnq.me/preview/en/ -- which seems to some kind of bizarre guessing if you put in less than 6 characters (as of 20:33, 21 November 2015 (EST) ) ; alphabet: asdASD123 ; 1,5k ghits ; 6 char; existing: 301 - location; not existing: 404; only found '''10''' results in 20 days of searching 50 million possibilities; might be worth turning it back on, though<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|lurl-no}}<br />
| 2,518<br />
| 2015-12-18<br />
| 2015-12-18<br />
| 3,700<br />
| http://lurl.no/aZ<br />
| Y<br />
| site is up, says "Note: as a result of huge amounts of spam, new lurls are currently disabled." as of 01:31, 9 December 2015 (EST); grabbed all of them on 2015-12-18.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|migre-me}}<br />
| 423,747,675<br />
| 2017-02-27<br />
| 2015-11-08<br />
| 441,363,315<br />
| http://migre.me/sd9AB<br />
| Y<br />
| up to 5 characters, mixed case alphanumeric, currently around sot00 (as of 03:01, 14 December 2015 (EST)); Interestingly, the 3,822,506 codes from 4JXAG to 50000 are all empty. 4JXAG was created at "07/06/2011 17:06:46" while 50000 was created at "07/06/2011 03:00:00". 50je0 was created at {{url|1=http://www.migre.me/contar-cliques/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.migre.me%2F50je0|2=07/06/2011 17:05:05}}. So it looks like it was handing out both ranges for a few hours, then cut over to just 5's, leaving three million empty. Fascinating. Also, the 10,090,448 codes from 6jF0S (created at 05/12/2011 às 03:43:37) to 70001 (created at 23/11/2011 às 02:22:08) appear to be empty. As of 2016-05-04, we got ALL of it, although since it is still active, we'll need to do a re-check periodically. Recheck on 2017-02-18 starting from seq # 438648250, finished on 2017-02-27 at "w8zzz" (seq # 474886121). Recheck from there tried on 2017-06-12, but the site seemed unresponsive.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|minu-me}}<br />
| 463,698<br />
| 2017-05-09<br />
| 2017-05-02<br />
| 2,450,427<br />
| http://minu.me/a45<br />
| ?<br />
| minURL.fr links redirect to minu.me which seems to be alive (and in French) as of 2015-12-09 and 14:44, 4 February 2017 (EST)<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|mrte.ch}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-04-29<br />
| 2016-03-14<br />
| 113,153,450<br />
| <nowiki>http://mrte.ch/3tc</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| No new URLs allowed (due to spam), but existing ones still work; HEAD request gives 301 for short URLs; 307 for not found; as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT) ; everything 404s as of 2016-04-29 02:15:15 -- we found 54,880,485 short links.<br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|mysp-ac}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-04-04<br />
| 2015-02-09<br />
| 16,245,049<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| uses custom code<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|nig-gr}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-06<br />
| 2014-11-06<br />
| 15,145,600<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Home page is a blank black screen. (as of 01:38, 9 November 2015 (EST)); re-scan of 2-character range (nothing new found); and 4 character range on 2015-12-06 (started on the 4th, ran till the 7th)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|nsfw-in}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-04-24<br />
| 2016-04-13<br />
| 2,469,650<br />
| <nowiki>nsfw.in/TRo</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| Almost incremental, Valid: 200 (No Location header), Invalid: 404, <nowiki>http://nsfw.in/</nowiki>[a-zA-Z]{1-3} (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)); 102,199 found in 2016-04 scrape. May be sold, Alive Rechecked 20 July 2016.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|oak-ctx-ly}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-04-24<br />
| 2016-03-31<br />
| 30,217,950<br />
| http://oak.ctx.ly/r/rew<br />
| ?<br />
| Returns 301 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 404 for invalid URLs. Sequential lowercase alphanumeric. Namespace seems to have reached about 5 characters. Alive as of 07:01, 30 March 2016 (EDT); 7,408,862 found in 2016-03 scrape<br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|ow-ly}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-03-10<br />
| 2015-01-20<br />
| 367,074,900<br />
| http://ow.ly/UVFi7<br />
| Y<br />
| owned by Hootsuite; new shorturls: sequential ; (aliases: http://htl.li , http://ht.ly , http://owl.li ); uses custom code<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|pear-ly}}<br />
| 2,897,989<br />
| 2017-04-03<br />
| 2017-03-21<br />
| 15,459,148<br />
| http://pear.ly/6J1H<br />
| ?<br />
| Official shortener for pearltrees.com. Returns 301 for existing AND non-existing shorturls as of 15:30, 5 December 2015 (EST))<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|ph-ly}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-04-04<br />
| 2014-12-13<br />
| 989,290,500<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Related to the pond called Philadelphia, where links are born and raised, doesn't allow for new urls to be publicly shortened, existing urls still work<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|piciurl-hu}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2017-02-18<br />
| 2015-04-11<br />
| 334,350<br />
| http://piciurl.hu/7wr<br />
| Y<br />
| Initial scrape done on 2015-04-11; new scrape done on 2015-12-01 (up to seq# 11043); continued from there on 2017-02-18 for a short time, last found seq# 13686 (9_x)<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|p-ly}}<br />
| 62,000<br />
| 2016-06-05<br />
| 2015-12-09<br />
| 1,205,082,200<br />
| http://p.ly/abcd<br />
| ?<br />
| (aka re.p.ly) ; it has a shut down message (added sometime between May 1, 2012 and June 14, 2012) but promises to keep existing URLs working as of 01:03, 10 December 2015 (EST) (had 61,306 short URLs as of May 1, 2012); [https://web.archive.org/web/20110226011102/http://p.ly/ this] WB entry shows some short URLs (5 characters, alphanumeric); paused for a while during 2016-02 for unclear reasons<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|poeurl-com}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2017-10-10<br />
| 2017-09-30<br />
| 1,538,550<br />
| <nowiki>http://poeurl.com/wwq</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| <br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|pub-vitrue-com}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-11-22<br />
| 2014-11-16<br />
| 15,067,550<br />
| http://pub.vitrue.com/ZxC2<br />
| ?<br />
| Now part of Oracle; uses custom code<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|qr-cx}}<br />
| 2,377,573<br />
| 2015-12-08<br />
| 2015-12-08<br />
| 5,200<br />
| http://qr.cx/Us5p<br />
| ?<br />
| not allowing new shorturls as of 02:09, 9 December 2015 (EST); They made a full dump available after we emailed them! Here: {{url|http://qr.cx/dataset/qrcx_all_06eec9b9-1f29-4860-bd91-49c2d517d87d.7z}} (IA item coming soon)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|rod-gs}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-05<br />
| 2015-12-05<br />
| 6,250<br />
| http://rod.gs/1Fl<br />
| Y<br />
| up to 3 characters, alphanumeric, creating new ones appears to hang (as of 02:14, 2 November 2015 (EST)) (returns 301 for existing; 404 for non-existing); searched up to '''1aqa''' on 2015-12-05. Alive Rechecked 20 July 2016.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|sharedby-co_6}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-10-28<br />
| 2015-01-29<br />
| 93,044,500<br />
| http://sharedby.co/pHdLKr<br />
| ?<br />
| (Also see http://vsb.li. Double redirects via USERNAME.sharedby.co/share/XXXXXX ) (and http://shrd.by ); uses custom code. Alive Rechecked 20 July 2016. ; as of 2016-10-28, http://sharedby.co/km3B4o (and others) is returning 301 without a Location header -- needs to be looked into<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|shar-es}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-04-08<br />
| 2014-12-13<br />
| 1,031,784,400<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Still resolves URLs, but the homepage is 404; related to http://sharethis.com ; uses custom code. Alive Rechecked 20 July 2016.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|shortdoi-org}}<br />
| ~10,000<br />
| 2016-06-30<br />
| 2016-06-30<br />
| 113,894<br />
| http://dx.doi.org/bkbk<br />
| Y<br />
| Creates short aliases for DOIs/links. (Apparently they are valid DOIs) Appears sequential, [a-z], 4 character, duplicates re-use existing code: 10.1002/fld.4272 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fld.4272) becomes http://doi.org/bkbj and doi:10/bkbj Next in sequence: http://doi.org/bkbk as of 23:34, 29 June 2016 (EDT) ; shortdoi.org/''shortcode'', shortdoi.org/10/''shortcode'' and dx.doi.org/''shortcode'' all redirect to dx.doi.org/10/''shortcode'' which in turn redirects to the actual DOI (in the form dx.doi.org/10/''doi''). doi.org/''shortcode'' and doi.org/10/''shortcode'' redirect to the actual DOI without the dx part (e.g. doi.org/10/''doi''); 10,809 found.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|shortn-me}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-04-16<br />
| 2016-04-14<br />
| 1,008,050<br />
| <nowiki>http://shortn.me/k3pL</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| Likely sequential (Create fails), Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 301 (Location: index.php), <nowiki>http://shortn.me/</nowiki>[a-zA-Z0-9]{1-4}, (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)); appeared to be down on April 16 -- should probably restart it sometime.<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|shrt-st}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-11-06<br />
| 2014-11-06<br />
| 738,600<br />
| http://shrt.st/vpz<br />
| Y<br />
| Appears down; doesn't allow new urls to be shortened, existing urls still work.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|s-id}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-03-16<br />
| 2016-02-27<br />
| 19,268,596<br />
| http://s.id/Wb<br />
| Y<br />
| Run by PANDI, the registrar for the .id TLD; 20,901 found in 2016-02 scrape<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|sketchfab-com}}<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| 2017-10-10<br />
| 0<br />
| <nowiki>https://skfb.ly/GXzZ</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://skfb.ly/6nCrW</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| Alias skfb.ly, see below<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|srtn-us}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-01<br />
| 2014-11-06<br />
| 55,800<br />
| http://srtn.us/10zd<br />
| Y<br />
| still resolves URLs, but site just shows blank page; first scrape on 2014-11-06; re-checked from seq# 47929 through 48441 on 2015-12-01<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|snipurl}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-03-06<br />
| 2015-01-24<br />
| 181,015,750<br />
| ?<br />
| Y<br />
| new shorturls: sequential ; snipr.com / snipurl.com / snurl.com / sn.im - Appears incremental - Ex: http://snipr.com/27nvst http://snipr.com/27nvtt. snipr.com and snipurl.com work but appear infected with malware. ; uses custom code. Dead 404 Rechecked 20 July 2016.<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|snipurl_range2}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-04-20<br />
| 2015-03-06<br />
| 293,372,600<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| see snipurl entry; uses custom code<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|spne-ws}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-20<br />
| 2015-12-20<br />
| 134,600<br />
| http://spne.ws/9iN<br />
| ?<br />
| Silicon Prairie News private shortener ; Valid HTTP code is 301. Invalid is 301 as well, but to "http://www.siliconprairienews.com/?awesm=spne.ws_1&utm_medium=spne.ws-root&utm_source=direct-spne.ws&utm_content=root" - Alphabet is A-Z a-z 0-9, most appear to be 3 or less characters. No apparent method to publicly create new URLs. ; 6,898 found in first scrape; re-check in a year or so. Alive Rechecked 20 july 2016.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|sx3-se}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-01-1<br />
| 2016-01-1<br />
| 7,000<br />
| http://sx3.se/7<br />
| ?<br />
| private shortener for swedishstartupspace.se; 948 found<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|t7-hu}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-12-13<br />
| 2014-12-13<br />
| 585,800<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Doesn't make any more shorturls<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|techme-me}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-10-05<br />
| 2016-09-15<br />
| 152199550<br />
| http://techme.me/BekB http://techme.me/A2Fw http://techme.me/BSkF<br />
| ?<br />
| alive as of 2016-08-18; official shortener for Techmeme; (unclear if sequential, [0-9a-zA-Z]{4}) Valid returns 301 redirect, invalid 404 (all the 4-char test values tried returned results) (GET/HEAD)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|theguardian-com}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-11-07<br />
| 2016-10-14<br />
| 71,910,900<br />
| theguardian.com/p/3f7ca<br />
| ?<br />
| The Guardian (weird format - https://gu.com/p/3f7ca ) ; gu.com redirects to the same shortcode at www.theguardian.com/p<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|tighturl-com}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-11-22<br />
| 2014-11-16<br />
| 3,123,300<br />
| http://tighturl.com/30xu<br/>http://tighturl.com/30xv<br />
| Y<br />
| (alias: 2tu.us); appears to do case folding; uses custom code; appears to not be accepting new URLs as of 19:33, 15 December 2018 (UTC)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|tiny-tw}}<br />
| 813,979<br />
| 2016-05-05<br />
| 2016-05-07<br />
| 1,778,200<br />
| tiny.tw/3OZk<br />
| Y<br />
| Returns 301 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 301 with empty Location header for invalid URLs. Sequential alphanumeric with uppercase. Namespace has reached 4 characters. Alive as of 03:08, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|tinyurl_7}}<br />
| 10,000,000,000<br />
| {{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}<br />
| 2014-11-22<br />
| 3,594,972,825<br />
| http://tinyurl.com/mxzufis<br />
| N<br />
| done: sequential to zzzzzz; current: non-sequential, 7 characters; uses custom code<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|tiny-pl}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-04-24<br />
| 2016-04-13<br />
| 20,229,750<br />
| <nowiki>http://tiny.pl/g78rl</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| Sequential, Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 301 (Location: <nowiki>http://tiny.pl/404.php</nowiki>), <nowiki>http://tiny.pl/</nowiki>[a-z0-9]{1-5}; 730,015 found in 2016-04 scrape<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|tinyurl-hu_4}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-11-01<br />
| 2015-08-13<br />
| 20,308,700<br />
| http://tinyurl.hu/4q22<br />
| ?<br />
| uses custom code<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|trap-it}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-02-20<br />
| 2015-01-01<br />
| 3,130,300<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| first scrape (only covering 5-character codes) from 2015-01-01 through 2015-02-20; next scrape (starting at 0c4uk) began on 2015-12-04 -- unable to load anything (although manual checks of previously found ones seemed to work)<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|tr-im_gravity4}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-12-12<br />
| 2014-12-01<br />
| 42,813,150 <br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| done: sequential to 42pzz ; dead (2014-JUL-17) ; Appears incremental - Ex: http://tr.im/44tn2 http://tr.im/44tn4. Examples redirect to homepage, may be alive Rechecked 20 July 2016.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|ur1-ca}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-06-16<br />
| 2014-12-17<br />
| 25,560,250<br />
| <nowiki>http://ur1.ca/5bi</nowiki><br />
| Y<br />
| new shorturls: sequential ; FOSS, run by StatusNet; claims to offer a download of their database, but it just contains garbage; 2014-12-17 through 2014-12-20 scrape found 8,343,158 shortcodes from '''dzzzz''' to '''j5tc9'''; 2016-06-09 through 2016-06-16 scrape started with 1 character ones (until I noticed we had already done that, then it switched to continuing where the other one left off) and found about 11 million more shortcodes. Stopped it when it started throwing errors, which was about a two days after it stopped returning any results; last result was '''pbnnp''' (seq #49369792). Alive as of 22 June 2017, database download link now broken.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|urlcut-com}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2017-03-25<br />
| 2017-03-21<br />
| 740,400<br />
| <nowiki>http://urlcut.com/1xvha</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| "We are not currently accepting new redirects at this time." ; existing ones seem to still work, as of 02:09, 2 November 2015 (EST) ; it returns 302 for both existing *AND* non-existing URLs, and redirects to /abuse.html for terminated ones - 'seems to be done', Paused on 00:52, 25 March 2017 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|u-to}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-11-19<br />
| 2015-05-02<br />
| 54,190,499<br />
| <nowiki>http://u.to/5pkIDw; http://u.to/HzA-Aw</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| Doesn't allow new shortened URLs, as of 01:57, 19 November 2015 (EST); checked all the 4 character possibilities; found 13,315,311 URLs. Alive Rechecked 20 July 2016. ; requires GET (not HEAD) requests; returns 302 with target in Location header, 404 for invalid<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|u4-hu}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-11-21<br />
| 2014-11-16<br />
| 98,813,750<br />
| http://u4.hu/x/5Oz<br />
| ?<br />
| Appeared down for a while, but alive as of 20 July 2016. ; 2nd scrape started 2016-09-03 at shortcode "200"<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|vbly-us}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-11-09<br />
| 2015-01-11<br />
| 628,650<br />
| http://vbly.us/2mwv<br />
| Y<br />
| new shorturls: sequential; 2015-11-09 scrape from 2jp6 up to 2mwv (seq # 123000)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|vgd_6}}<br />
| 20,606,232<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-02-14<br />
| 2,349,689,750<br />
| <nowiki>https://v.gd/FFF54S</nowiki>; <nowiki>https://v.gd/urlteam</nowiki>; <nowiki>https://v.gd/ulrA0Q</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| uses custom code ; it would be named v-gd, but it was one of the earliest projects, and the naming convention hadn't settled down yet ; obscure sibling of is.gd; Not sequential, is random. Has random customization options (standard, lower case, and lower case pronounceable) Allows custom URLs and different protocols (http, ftp, see IANA list of URIs for more). "data:", however is banned. Returns 301 with URL in location header for valid URLs. Returns 404 for invalid URLs. Says on homepage (as of 22:28, 5 May 2016 (EDT)) "Shortening 20,606,232 URLs". Alive Rechecked 20 July 2016.<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|viddy-it}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-12-18<br />
| 2014-11-16<br />
| 832,351,700<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| dead; [[viddy]]; partially saved<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|waa-ai}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-03-20<br />
| 2014-11-16<br />
| 2,182,850<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Requires free login to create shorturls ; initial run for one day on 2014-11-16; another one-day run on 2016-03-20<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|wowurl-com}}<br />
| 540,373<br />
| 2016-06-09<br />
| 2016-05-05<br />
| 18,555,750<br />
| <br />
| Y<br />
| Returns 302 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 200 for invalid URLs. Sequential lowercase alphanumeric. Namespace has reached 5 characters. They supposedly have 540373 urls. Alive as of 03:08, 29 April 2016 (EDT); As of 00:04, 10 June 2016 (EDT), it seemed to ignore the first character of the 5 digit shortcodes (i.e. returned the same URL for any first character). As such, stopped at ''b1qo8'' (seemed to be mostly spam, in any case), after finding 1,712,131.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|wp-me}}<br />
| 122,080,510<br />
| 2017-10-22<br />
| 2017-10-07<br />
| 166,679,150<br />
| <nowiki>http://wp.me/f2B5</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| Blog IDs; see the further down for details on the shortener<br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|wp-me}}<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| 2018-12-16<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| Continuation of the above starting from the last result in 2017, 9ixzz.<br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|xco}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-11-22<br />
| 2014-11-06<br />
| 80,319,800<br />
| <nowiki>http://x.co/1IxUV</nowiki> <br> <nowiki>http://x.co/1IxUW</nowiki> <br> <nowiki>http://x.co/5PSLK</nowiki><br />
| Y<br />
| Appears incremental, but custom ones also exist (up to 10 characters); requires (free) GoDaddy account to create short URLs; uses custom code<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|xn--i-8ia-ga}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2017-01-26<br />
| 2016-12-6<br />
| 85,085,600<br />
| http://www.ĝi.ga/lolt<br />
| ?<br />
| Esperanto-language link shortening service. Alive as of 15:55, 5 December 2016 (EST)<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|xrl-us}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-01-10<br />
| 2014-12-12<br />
| 161,601,700<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| self-saved; Thank you Metamark for the database dump!<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|xrl-us_lowercase}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-01-14<br />
| 2015-01-10<br />
| 28,675,900<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| see xrl-us entry<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|xxsurl-de}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-05-16<br />
| 2016-05-14<br />
| 3,097,300<br />
| <nowiki>http://xxsURL.de/11wyx</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| seems alive as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT) -- Allows creation of new shortlinks, currently 5 characters (lowercase + digits, have not seen any upper case letters) appears to be sequential and lowercase. (<nowiki>http://xxsURL.de/11wyx</nowiki> <nowiki>http://xxsurl.de/11wyy</nowiki>) Allows for custom shortlinks. Valid returns 302, invalid returns 200 with error page, for both GET and HEAD requests, destination in Location header. Appears to provide an incomplete(?) list of shortlinks and a top 20. ; 1,303,470 found in 2016-05 scrape. Dead Rechecked 20 July 2016.<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|y-ahoo-it_5}} {{urlteam_tracker|y-ahoo-it_6}} {{urlteam_tracker|y-ahoo-it_8}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-04-04<br />
| 2014-11-06<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Partial <br/> y-ahoo-it_5: 982,090,300 checked between 2014-11-06 and 2015-02-25 <br/> y-ahoo-it_6: 1,670,279,150 checked between 2014-11-06 and 2015-04-03 <br/> y-ahoo-it_8: 1,952,022,300 checked between 2014-11-06 and 2015-04-04. Now dead.<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|yatuc}} '''AND''' {{urlteam_tracker|yatuc-com}}<br />
| ~ 33,000<br />
| 2016-05-16 (for one day)<br />
| 2014-12-13 (for one day)<br />
| 597,150 (in yatuc job); 7,945,300 (in yatuc-com job)<br />
| <nowiki>http://yatuc.com/u_k</nowiki> ; <nowiki>http://yatuc.com/vr0</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| "temporarily disabled" but still resolves shortlinks. Shortlinks appear to be 3 characters (lowercase + digits + "_") (may be random judging from gaps) Doesn't appear to allow custom shortlinks. Valid returns 302 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 302 with Location: <nowiki>http://yatuc.com</nowiki> for both GET and HEAD (as of 01:39, 15 May 2016 (EDT)); uses custom code (for yatuc, not yatuc-com job). Dead requires password to add new short urls Rechecked 20 July 2016.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|yoolink-to}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-06-09<br />
| 2014-11-16<br />
| 344,100<br />
| http://yoolink.to/1dwa<br />
| Y<br />
| Up to 3 characters scraped on 2014-11-16 (a small 2 character segment re-scraped on 2014-11-22); 4 characters (up to 1dwa) scraped between 2015-11-08 and 2015-11-09; 4 characters (from '''1dw6''' to '''1e45''') scraped on 2016-06-09; tried scraping some more on 2018-07-27, but didn't get any results<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|zpr-io}}<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| 2017-09-30<br />
| 0<br />
| http://zpr.io/nnK7K<br />
| ?<br />
| URL shortener for zapier .com. Their twitter integration will auto shorten links before it posts to twitter. Seems to be the only way to create links. You are able to do it with a free account but it takes some setup. On success it gives HTTP/1.1 302 and redirects to the URL via Location header. On fail it gives HTTP/1.1 200 and spits out a short json error (/--test--). Appears to be sequential (/nnidd and /nnide). Likewise /nnK7K and /nnK7L work but /nnK7l does not (as of 2017-09-29). No public URL count available. More extensive notes here https://gist.github.com/Soulflare3/d3c016f27439630b926527b287687aba<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|zurl-ws}} <br />
| 2,647<br />
| 2016-05-16<br />
| 2016-05-17<br />
| 2,139,600<br />
| http://zurl.ws/39x<br />
| Y<br />
| Currently cannot create account/shortlinks, resolves existing. Shortlinks appear to be 3 character (lowercase + digits), appears to be sequential (judging from patterns in sequential shorturls). Valid returns 302 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 200 with error page. GET and HEAD (as of 01:39, 15 May 2016 (EDT)). Alive requires account to use Rechecked 20 July 2016.<br />
|- class="sortbottom"<br />
! Warrior project name<br />
! Est. # shorturls<br />
! Last scraped date<br />
! Initially scraped date<br />
! # checked<br />
! Example URL<br />
! Incr<br />
! Comments<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Alive ===<br />
<br />
(please keep list alphabetized, and list verification dates inline)<br />
<br />
Sources include: {{url|http://blog.go2.me/2009/01/exhausting-review-of-link-shorteners.html}} (last updated 2009-08-14), {{url|http://code.google.com/p/shortenurl/wiki/URLShorteningServices}} (Updated May 19, 2011; not fully integrated yet), {{url|https://www.hashtags.org/platforms/twitter/list-of-url-shorteners/}}, {{url|http://bit.do/list-of-url-shorteners.php}} (as of 01:49, 10 February 2016 (EST)), {{url|http://blogtimenow.com/free-lists/free-url-shortener-services-shrink-links/}} (as of 03:08, 29 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
<br />
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="width: auto; text-align: center"<br />
! Shortener<br />
! Last Checked on<br />
! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| 0x0.st || 2017-08-21<br />
| 302 redirect on success, 404 on error; source code is available at https://github.com/lachs0r/0x0; less than 1k URLs as of 2017-01-01. Example: <nowiki>https://0x0.st/QX</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| 1o2.ir || 2017-08-21<br />
| Iranian shortener; redirects using JavaScript; alias: qqt.ir; shortcodes: <code>[a-z0-9]{5}</code>; alive as of 2017-08-21 19:10 UTC. Example: <nowiki>http://1o2.ir/u4qer</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| 9en.us || 2017-08-21<br />
| appears to charge for creating short URLs; called a scam on various websites; ad-heavy with obfuscated JavaScript; seems alive as of 2017-08-21 19:30 UTC. Example: <nowiki>http://9en.us/gjde</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| ad7.biz || 2017-08-21<br />
| pays short URL creators; ad-heavy with obfuscated JavaScript; seems alive as of 2017-08-21 19:35 UTC. Example: <nowiki>http://ad7.biz/oLJz</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| adf.ly || 2017-08-21<br />
| incremental; displays interstitial ads, so requires custom code; aliases: q.gs, j.gs (separate shortcodes?). Examples: <nowiki>http://adf.ly/bnpYL</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://adf.ly/1RP4DP</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| adfoc.us || 2017-08-21<br />
| displays interstitial ads; appears to require certain headers; target link as cleartext in HTML; current shortcodes appear to be incremental decimal numbers with a prepended "x" (as of 2017-08-21 19:50 UTC), but there are also other formats. Example: <nowiki>http://adfoc.us/x65403071</nowiki><br><small><small><small><code>curl --header "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,appn/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8" --header "User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36" <nowiki>http://adfoc.us/serve/?id=27122857065955</nowiki></code></small></small></small><br />
|-<br />
| at5.us || 2017-08-21<br />
| 302 redirect on success, 404 on error; requires an account for creating short URLs.<br />
|-<br />
| at.cmt.com || 2016-09-17<br />
| Country Music Television - Appears to be a vanity domain hosted on ow.ly infrastructure.<br />
|-<br />
| azon.biz || 2018-12-13<br />
| Gives 200 on error. Gives 301 on success. Starts at Single character. Doesn't appear to be accepting new short urls.<br />
|-<br />
| b23.ru || 2016-01-02<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| bc.vc || 2016-06-05<br />
| displays interstitial ads ; Example: <nowiki>http://bc.vc/8nCbMs</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| bernie.to || 2016-03-21<br />
| No public method for creating shortcodes. Homepage redirects to campaign homepage. 307 Proxy Redirect for (vaild) bernie.to/pb and /vol and same status code for invalid shortcode. Seems to all be custom names, according to those used on reddit: http://reddit.com/domain/bernie.to As of 17:24, 21 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
|- <br />
| bfy.tw || 2016-09-08<br />
| All links I've seen to this shortener redirect to lmgtfy.com (Let Me Google That For You). <br />
|-<br />
| bit.do || 2016-08-06<br />
| Appears non-incremental, public method allowed on Homepage, edit/delete/change destination allowed only after login.<br />
Short code ci7JZ points to this page.<br />
Adding "-" after short urlshows statistics, default public, but can be made private if logged in.<br />
Custom words allowed.<br />
Non-custom Shorturls are random.<br />
Response Header is HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently. Returns the destination in the Location: header.<br />
A link created on 2016-08-04 00:01:43 display message in its private statics/admin page "This is link number 22183012 created ....".<br />
No API/Bookmarklet/Extensions.<br />
Offers custom domain at $85/year, but can also be addded for free.<br />
|- <br />
| BTC.ms || 2018-12-17 <br />
| No Login required to create links. The links seem to be non-sequential. 7,287,276 links already created. Returns 200 with existing link. Non-existing return 404. Example: http://btc.ms/72i4y1N4udHgK40FF0<br />
|-<br />
| budurl.com || 2015-12-06<br />
| Appears non-incremental, apparently all custom names; only paying clients allowed to create URLs (checked as of 02:03, 7 December 2015 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
| buzurl.com || 2015-12-19<br />
| Example: http://buzurl . com/li04 ; link broken, home page is blank as of 23:40, 19 December 2015 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| canurl.com || 2016-01-02<br />
| Contains various random essays on URL shortening & spam; not clear if the shortener still exists as of 15:05, 2 January 2016 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| cl.ly || 2016-09-17<br />
| CloudApp ; requires application to create short URLs<br />
|-<br />
| clicky.me || 2016-07-13<br />
| Requires paid account (& installation of a tracking system on your website) to create links; HEAD requests seem to return 301 with Location; non-existing seem to return 302 to homepage<br />
|-<br />
| cu.tl<br />
| <br />
| Called "Cut Link". Probably owned by the same people as shrink.im, based on the reused graphics / design<br />
|-<br />
| cur.lv (CoinURL.com) || 2016-05-18<br />
| Subdomains include: bit, go, in, jump, link, me, my, n, name, now, to. -- Allows creation of new shortlinks, displays interstitial ads. Appears sequential, 5 characters, [a-z0-9]. Javascript updates HTML body: <code>ifr.src = "<nowiki>http://cur.lv/redirect_curlv.php?code=</nowiki>" + escape(c) + "&ticket=" + ticket + "&r=" + (document.referrer ? escape(document.referrer) : '');</code>, destination link in <code><a ..id="skip-ad" ></code>. Examples: <nowiki>http://cur.lv/ypc7w</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://cur.lv/ypc7x</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| decenturl.com || 2016-02-10<br />
| Makes human-readable URLs from page titles; not at all easy to scrape. Requires one-time payment and registration to create URLs as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| del.ly || 2016-05-18<br />
| sprinklr -- Used on twitter by @DellOutlet and @DellCaresKR (and elsewhere?) to link to various marketing campaigns. Appears to use a 4 numerical digits "601" + [0-9] + 5 characters [a-zA-Z0-9], not clear if sequential or otherwise (recent links seem to be of the form 601#Bxxxx) http://del.ly/6012BoNrp del.ly/6010BUbi6 (301 Redirect, destination in Location:, invalid returns 301 to http://del.ly/error?url=[invalid code])<br />
|-<br />
| derpy.me || 2018-07-02<br />
| Popular URL shortener in the My Little Pony fandom. 45877 shorturls. Random identifiers, appear to be [a-zA-Z0-9]{5}. Valid links return a 302 redirect, destination in Location header. Invalid links return 302 with Location: http://derpy.me/. Lost its database once already in March 2015 (see http://derpy.me/about and https://twitter.com/derpyme/status/580403557939154944), unknown if newly generated links may collide with old ones from before then. Example links generated in quick succession: http://derpy.me/W0ocw http://derpy.me/GigAo.<br />
|- <br />
| dfl8.me || 2016-02-10<br />
| previously had an archive of created URLs; requires a (broken) captcha to create URLs as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| digbig.com || 2016-02-10<br />
| no longer accepting new users as of March 1, 2014; site appears to still be up as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| dlvr.it || 2015-11-02<br />
| Requires free login; then requires connecting to another service; URLs are shortened when sent through. ( as of 01:36, 2 November 2015 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
| dogeurl.com || 2015-12-21<br />
| Alive 12-21-2015 Non-incremental, alphabet A-Z a-z 0-9, 6 characters long, with custom option Valid: 301 to destination, Invalid: 302 to https://dogeurl.com/invalid.php<br />
|-<br />
| doiop.com || 2016-02-10<br />
| Appears non-incremental ; allows unicode in short codes; appears alive as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST)<br />
|- <br />
| donotlink.it || 2017-05-27<br />
| appears random, examples https://donotlink.it/Z2KP https://donotlink.it/AKbJ https://donotlink.it/qbpb, valid: 200 OK, invalid: 404 Not Found. "Most donotlink.it URLs are 4-6 characters, only include letters and numbers (and are case sensitive) (e.g. https://donotlink.it/zxwL) or have another URL appended (e.g. https://donotlink.it/http://example.com)" (from page that appears for invalid links)<br />
|-<br />
| dstats.net || 2016-07-13<br />
| Seems alive<br />
|-<br />
| durl . me/durl.kr || 2016-06-19<br />
|<br />
appears to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 22:00, 21 November 2015 (EST)<br />
ex: http://durl . me/7ainhy http://durl . me/cfvj3d http://durl . me/cf9ssv<br />
Non Sequential, random 6 Char, Charset asd123, 165k hits(google)<br />
pretty slow, displays warning on new(low frequent?) sites.<br />
last twitterpost is from 2009<br />
Redirect: 302 Location, 200 div content a href url<br />
no redirect: 404<br />
very weird, has 2 ways of redirecting. Links for 200-Pages have to be extracted from html<br />
|-<br />
| dy.fi || 2016-08-19<br />
| Finnish site (although in English), shortlink maker is on a subpage; claims to erase links when they haven't been used for 6 months<br />
|-<br />
| easyurl.net || 2016-09-18<br />
| (alias: atu.ca , readthis.ca , clickthru.ca , redirects.ca ) Appears non-incremental; only available to customers of easyDNS.com ; Ex: http://easyurl.net/afd2f easyurl.net/5e3a ; seems alive; alphabet upper and lower case and digits; excluded from google; 4-5 char, some custom; existing: 302 - location; not existing: 301 - http://easyurl.net/local404.php<br />
|-<br />
| fanpa.ge || 2016-06-19<br />
|<br />
3-5 Character<br />
asdASD123<br />
Google sees 40k links, basically all 5 Character. some 3 Character links like asd, private?<br />
allows Custom urls<br />
redirect: 301, location<br />
no redirect: 404<br />
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| filoops.info || 2016-01-29<br />
| Appears to allow public shortening; seems alive as of 01:15, 29 January 2016 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| firsturl.de || 2016-02-17<br />
| Appears alive and allowing public shortening as of 01:20, 17 February 2016 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| fnd.us || 2016-09-17<br />
| (See offical shorteners)<br />
|-<br />
| fur.ly || 2016-07-13<br />
| Claims to allow you to "Shorten multiple urls into one" whatever that means.<br />
|-<br />
| gdurl.com || 2016-05-28<br />
| allows public shortening of Google Drive public-linked files, example http://gdurl.com/s3tF , not sequential (jumped from http://gdurl.com/8T-v to http://gdurl.com/s3tF when tried two different files seconds after each other), 236,285 urls shortened as of 18:29, 24 February 2016 (EST), has a public list of "all" permalinks - note this appears to be inaccurate (there is an option to not make the link public in the list when it is created) -- for GET and HEAD, valid returns 307 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 404 ; alias: yuarel.com<br />
|-<br />
| hive.co/l || 2016-05-30<br />
| this is an component of the hive.co website: artists can create shortned urls of their tracks. Seems to also resolve to some other links too. Characters (i hadn't seen any other characters in the links as of now): "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789" Url format: hive.co/l/a hive.co/l/aa hive.co/l/aaa hive.co/l/aaaa and so on. Custom named ones found. (positions 1 and 2 are already archived) Status codes: 404 Not found, 302 redirect. example curl -i output http://paste.harrycross.me/view/6fcacf91#b5hwPAqom5CAJqVEELvF9Y89VvHnsnMm.<br />
|-<br />
| hotshorturl.com || 2016-07-13<br />
| Requires free account to shorten URLs; example listed: hotshorturl.com/fv57<br />
|-<br />
| ity.im || 2015-12-19<br />
| shows adverts, not clear if it still works as of 23:40, 19 December 2015 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| joturl.com || 2016-09-17<br />
| Doesn't appear guessable, HTML redirect ; smarturl.eu redirects here, but claims "not to be active"<br />
|-<br />
| kaywa.me || 2018-12-12<br />
| Gives 200 for error or bad code. Gives 302 for successful redirect. Starts at single character from observation.<br />
|-<br />
| kek.gg || 2017-08-24<br />
| also an image host; currently generates non-sequential, four-character codes with at least the char set <code>[a-zA-Z0-9-_]</code>; always serves status 200; redirects using JavaScript but also offers a direct link in HTML. Examples: <nowiki>https://kek.gg/u/LXcZ</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kek.gg/u/5Xh4</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kek.gg/u/-kCG</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kek.gg/u/nL_V</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kek.gg/u/Yhs_</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| kics.it || 2016-09-17<br />
| shourturl creation restricted to users of "MiniCRM"<br />
|-<br />
| l9k.net || 2016-03-13<br />
| seems alive, allows public shortening as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| lien2.com || 2015-11-29<br />
| http://lien2 . com/go/a6cx ; seems-non-incremental, only 583 shortened urls (as of 02:27, 29 November 2015 (EST) )<br />
|-<br />
| linkbucks.com || 2016-05-28<br />
| Claims to be the "Social Advertising Network", appears to offer keyword highlighting, iframe and link-redirect advertising. Requires an account to create links, needs more investigation.<br />
|-<br />
| linkbun.ch || 2016-03-14<br />
| combines multiple URLs into one short URL, probably requires custom code -- 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| lin.io || 2015-12-07<br />
| uses frame/toolbar (site is alive as of 01:09, 7 December 2015 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
| ln.is || 2015-12-12<br />
| linkis.com (also provides a way to comment on the linked page) ; ex: http://ln . is/vine.co/v/UA0PH -- the destination server appears to be included in the shortcode, which should make it harder to scrape (as of 02:56, 12 December 2015 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
| lt.tl || 2015-12-09<br />
| site is up, says "Service will be back soon..." as of 01:31, 9 December 2015 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| ly.my || 2015-12-07<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| macte.ch || 2016-03-14<br />
| seems alive, allows public shortening as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| mcaf.ee || 2016-04-29<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| merky.de || 2016-03-14<br />
| seems alive, allows public shortening as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| mgnet.me || 2016-05-28<br />
| for torrent magnet URIs. -- Allows creation of new links, allows custom links. Sequentially generated: http://mgnet.me/bOwH7Kc http://mgnet.me/bOwH7K6 http://mgnet.me/bOwH7qZ (Also found examples: Oct 2014 ZxVD8CX; May 6 2016 bwxF6mZ) Unsure of ordering pattern. GET and HEAD request 200 status code (GET returns page with magnet link) with magnet link in header Magnet-Uri, Invalid code returns 302 with mgnet.me in Location header (both GET and HEAD).<br />
|-<br />
| moourl.com || 2016-03-14<br />
| Random (alive as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| multiurl.com || 2016-07-13<br />
| Claims to let you share multiple URLs at once<br />
|-<br />
| my.dot.tk/tweak || <br />
| Appears non-incremental<br />
|-<br />
| nao.usem.xyz || 2017-01-06<br />
| takes screenshots of objectionable pages and displays them instead of the actual page, to avoid ad revenue. nonprofit without donation methods, could go away at any time. online as of 20:28, 6 January 2017 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| nblo.gs || 2015-11-07<br />
| no obvious way to create URLs from the home page as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| nbx.ch || 2015-12-09<br />
| private shortener; appears up as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| news.me || 2015-11-07<br />
| no obvious way to create URLs from the home page as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| nohref.hu || 2016-09-17<br />
| Hungarian site; Allows custom shorturl & deletes links after a specified time period (or 1 year without use)<br />
|-<br />
| notlong.com || 2015-11-07<br />
| Appears to be alpha-only - Ex: http://yeitoo.notlong . com/ ; doesn't seem to be allow creating new shorturls, as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| nowlinks.net || 2016-07-13<br />
| Seems alive; example URL created on 01:46, 14 July 2016 (EDT): http://nowlinks.net/Qh7id2<br />
|-<br />
| nutshellurl.com || 2016-03-20<br />
| Appears incremental. 301s to a redirector script, which then 301s you to the destination. Seems alive as of 14:59, 20 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| omani.ac || 2016-07-13<br />
| May be alive; creating a URL seemed to fail<br />
|-<br />
| ouo.io || 2018-12-18 <br />
| No Login required to create a URL. The links seem to be non-sequential. Example: http://www.ouo.io/iGKTD <br />
|-<br />
| ozn.st || 2016-07-13<br />
| Claims to be for personal use only<br />
|-<br />
| p.pw || 2015-11-07<br />
| sells interstitial ads before showing the full URL; likely to be harder to scrape (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
| perma.cc || 2016-06-29<br />
| Web snapshotting for academics, while not strictly an URL shortener, I'd like to see all of the perma.cc item pages in the Wayback. Here's how to generate the list of all public perma.cc/FOO links:<br />
curl 'https://api.perma.cc/v1/public/archives/?limit=3&offset=0' | bin/jq '.objects[] | .guid'<br />
curl 'https://api.perma.cc/v1/public/archives/?limit=3&offset=3' | bin/jq '.objects[] | .guid'<br />
|-<br />
| po.st || 2015-11-07<br />
| "social sharing platform"; no obvious way to create URLs from the home page (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
| prettylinkpro.com || 2016-02-10<br />
| "Affiliate Link Cloaker and URL Shortener for WordPress"; doesn't seem to provide public shortening; unclear what the short URLs look like; site appears alive as of 01:10, 10 February 2016 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| prsm.tc || 2016-06-10<br />
| getprismatic.com ; ex: http://prsm.tc/GB2HP2 -> http://getprismatic.com/story/1428656915049?share=MzY4MjEx.MTQyODY1NjkxNTA0OQ.gH9aD6dy4y7zDFgIYQcLrW9KaeE -> (via some convoluted mess) http://scvincent.com/2015/04/10/when-reviews-really-matter/ ; non-redirects still get redirected to http://getprismatic.com/404 -- getprismatic.com no longer resolves, prsm.tc resolves but returns 503 with "Back-end server is at capacity" reason as of 03:31, 10 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| ptiturl.com || 2016-03-20<br />
| appears to be in French; seems alive and allowing public shortening as of 14:59, 20 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| qik.li || 2015-12-12<br />
| site appears to allow public shortening as of 02:24, 12 December 2015 (EST); tried to set up a warrior job, but it kept erroring out, as of 02:13, 21 March 2017 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| qoo.ly || 2017-12-29<br />
| Appears to use 5 character, lowercase letters and numbers. Valid: 301, destination in Location header. Invalid: 404, sets cookie (Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=..), plain text content. Homepage used to be an url shortener, after 2016-05-23 (according to archive.org) qoo.ly homepage is broken in its current form. *Now it may* be a social media management shortener by socialreport.com<br />
|-<br />
| qqt.ir || 2017-08-21<br />
| Alias of 1o2.ir; simply 301 redirects all URLs (including invalid shortcodes) to 1o2.ir; alive as of 2017-08-21 19:10 UTC. Example: <nowiki>http://qqt.ir/u4qer</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| qr.net || 2016-02-10<br />
| has a redirect from http://3.ly (but other pages on 3.ly seem to redirect to a parking page, http://www.threely.com ) ex: qr.net/bpEjJ & qr.net/bitdo ; allows public shortening; 6,270,241 made as of 01:10, 10 February 2016 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| qttr.at || 2016-12-04<br />
| shortener for quitter.se (and possibly other GNU social instances that go by the name of quitter, such as https://quitter.no and https://quitter.is. Works as of 18:57, 4 December 2016 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| qurl.com || 2015-12-10<br />
| site appears to allow public shortening as of 01:03, 10 December 2015 (EST) (also runs an image sharing service)<br />
|-<br />
| r.ebay.com || 2016-06-10<br />
| Working and producing new shortlinks. Currently 6 characters, [a-zA-z1-9], looks random. Responds to both GET and HEAD requests. Valid returns 301 to rover.ebay(.com,co.uk,de,etc.), then another 301 to eBay. (com,co.uk,etc.)/itm/.. (How long are expired item listings kept? These likely expire at the same time.) Invalid returns 301 to http://pages.ebay.com, then another 301 to http://www.ebay.com - ex: r.ebay.com/gjbfkl r.ebay.com/rOhipo r.ebay.com/IH3etu r.ebay.com/eF1ofu<br />
|-<br />
| rebrandly.com || 2018-02-21<br />
| Example URL: http://brand.cool/books <br />
|-<br />
| rlu dot ru || 2016-05-15<br />
| seems alive as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT) - Allows creation of new shortlinks, does not appear to allow custom shortlinks. Currently issues 4 characters, older links use 3 characters, appears to use [a-zA-Z0-9]*, seems to be sequential: http://rlu . ru/TDzw http://rlu . ru/TDzz Valid returns 301 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 404 (GET and HEAD). (as of 17:18, 15 May 2016 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| s.maro.xyz || 2018-07-12<br />
| Returns 302 with the destination in the Location header for valid IDs, 404 otherwise; [https://github.com/Kiniamaro/short.maro.xyz/blob/8813b6da2822b6cfe949ee4ec8483c1979491c30/app.py#L21-L26 IDs are made of 7 random characters from the <code>a-zA-Z0-9</code> range.] [https://github.com/Kiniamaro/short.maro.xyz/ Source code]; example: <nowiki>https://s.maro.xyz/qwemTVx</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| s2r.co || 2016-07-13<br />
| Seems alive<br />
|-<br />
| s7y.us || 2016-03-20<br />
| seems alive and allowing public shortening as of 14:59, 20 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| safe.mn || 2016-04-03<br />
| Claims to provide archive of shortened URLs at safe.mn/static/safemn.zip ; seems alive as of 01:12, 3 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| seomafia.net || 2016-07-13<br />
| Seems alive; example URL created at 02:00, 14 July 2016 (EDT): http://seomafia.net/aN5V<br />
|-<br />
| shadyurl.com || 2016-04-12<br />
| Complex, Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 301 (Empty location), ex.: http://www.5z8 dot info/trojan_sunz http://www.5z8 dot info/how-to-stop-immigration-for-good.pdf_w7g7no_yourdick (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| shorl.com || 2016-04-12<br />
| Will need custom code to accommodate "Koremutake", an alphabet of 128 phonetically unique phonemes, which is documented [https://gist.github.com/anonymous/599ba4c17599cd213005 here] and at <nowiki>http://shorl dot com/koremutake.php</nowiki>. Random six-phoneme code (meaning there are 128⁶ = 4.4 trillion combinations), valid: 200 (no Location header), invalid: 404, <code><nowiki>http://shorl[.]com/[a-z]{13}</nowiki></code>, ex.: <nowiki>http://shorl dot com/tisikestibahu</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://shorl dot com/stugipenefife</nowiki> (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT); verified 2017-10-09 15:30 UTC)<br />
|-<br />
| shorte.st || 2016-09-17<br />
| sells interstitial ads before showing the full URL; likely to be harder to scrape<br />
|-<br />
| shorturl.at || 2017-12-18<br />
| example shorturl.at/gmvY2; random 5 char/digit; always 302, on valid redirects to site, on invalid to main website (https://www.shorturl.at/)<br />
|-<br />
| shorturl.com || 2016-04-12<br />
| Random, Valid: 302 (Location header correct), Invalid: 200, http://alturl dot com/[a-z0-9]{5}, ex.: http://alturl dot com/j5vmv (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| shorturl.im || 2016-10-07<br />
| Probably owned by the same people as shrink.im, based on the reused graphics / design<br />
|-<br />
| shrink.im || 2016-10-07<br />
| Probably owned by the same people as shorturl.im, based on the reused graphics / design<br />
|-<br />
| sh.st || 2016-10-03<br />
| Alternative domain name for shorte.st, and one letter away from what it should be. Displays ads before redirection. Fails to redirect with Javascript disabled.<br />
|-<br />
| smallr.net || 2016-04-12<br />
| Likely sequential, Allows custom URLs, Must include trailing '/', Valid: 301 (Location correct), Invalid: 404, http://smallr.net/[a-z0-9]{1-4}/, ex.: http://smallr.net/5em/ (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| smarturl.it || 2016-06-10<br />
| smartURL -- smarturl.it, hyperurl.co - Allows creation, returns 'hyperurl.co' shortlinks, 6 character, [a-z0-9], **appears case insensitive**, allows custom code on hyperurl.co to all, custom on smarturl.it to "verified accounts". Can redirect to different links based on country and device (additional marketing options for "enterprise" accounts). Duplicate links get a new code. Responds to both GET and HEAD. Valid returns 301 with destination in Location header. Invalid returns 404. hyperurl.co/cxmdix hyperurl.co/le1lsr hyperurl.co/2br774 hyperurl.co/9cud4f<br />
|-<br />
| smurl.name || 2016-04-12<br />
| 60 seconds ads, Random, ex.: http://smurl.name/yMuzr (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| soa.li / soc.li || 2016-09-17<br />
| Gigya inc. ; may be dead, page says: "The remote name could not be resolved: 'li'"<br />
|-<br />
| soli.dm || 2015-12-16<br />
| Solid Media Group - Domain registered 2014-05-26, Google search shows 566 results as of 12-16-2015. Alphabet: A-Z a-z 0-9 (typically 5 characters long). Valid HTTP Code is 301, invalid is 404. Nonsequential shorturls, no public ability to create shorturls.<br />
|-<br />
| soo.gd || 2016-07-13<br />
| Seems alive; has alarming smiley face with thumbs up image<br />
|-<br />
| sp2.ro || 2016-04-12<br />
| Likely random, Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 302, http://sp2.ro/[a-f0-9]{6}, ex.: http://sp2.ro/d05889 (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| spnsr.tw || <br />
| sponsoredtweets.com<br />
|-<br />
| surl.co.uk || 2016-09-17<br />
| Many shortening options.<br />
|-<br />
| surl.dk || 2018-05-20<br />
| Example: http://surl.dk/hbx/. Appears sequential using [a-z][0-9]. Returns 302 for all queries. Sets "Location:" to destinaion URL for valid short codes, and to "/" for invalid codes. Currently has 22413 URLs generated.<br />
|-<br />
| t1p.de / ogy.de / 0cn.de / kurzelinks.de || 2016-03-15<br />
| Alive as of 11:17, 15 March 2016 (EDT); http://t1p(dot)de/ggl, non-sequential, custom URLs possible; Valid returns HTTP 302 with Location set; Invalid returns HTTP 301 to error page with requested shortener URL in Location header<br />
|-<br />
| tinyarrows.com / ta.gd / ri.ms / ➡.ws / ➨.ws / ➯.ws / ➔.ws / ➞.ws / ➽.ws / ➹.ws / ✩.ws / ✿.ws / ❥.ws / ›.ws / ⌘.ws / ‽.ws / ☁.ws || <br />
| Appears non-incremental: uses user-defined words for URLs (e.g. http://➡.ws/URLTEAM)<br />
|-<br />
| tiny.cc || 2015-12-12<br />
| Appears non-incremental (alive as of 18:21, 12 December 2015 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
| tiny.ly || 2016-01-01<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| tip.pe || 2016-07-13<br />
| Appears to load a Commodore emulator, that claims to be a URL shortener. Very strange. <br />
|-<br />
| trib.al (alias: gizmo.do ) || 2016-08-18<br />
| Does not appear to allow public creation of new short-URLs; owned by SocialFlow - examples: http://trib.al/600YOWx http://trib.al/TqoIUv3 http://trib.al/CeyQgiY http://trib.al/pYINp17 (appears to be random and [a-zA-Z0-9]{7}) Valid returns 301, invalid returns 404 (GET/HEAD)<br />
|-<br />
| twitthis.com || 2015-11-07<br />
| requires a Twitter account to create shortURLs (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
| twiturl dot de || 2016-04-12<br />
| Custom urls only?, goes via two redirects, Valid: 302 (Location ends with '&loc=LINK', LINK is the original URL), Invalid: 302 (Location ends with '&loc=http://www dot twiturl.de'), ex.:http://twiturl dot de/gudet (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| trunc.it || 2015-12-12<br />
| closed, but still resolving existing URLs as of 17:43, 12 December 2015 (EST); http://trunc . it/pssga ; returns 301 for existing and non-existing shortcodes<br />
|-<br />
| tzd.me || 2016-10-31<br />
| Has an export function built for easy import: http://api.tzd.me/export.php?meta returns a JSON object with meta-information, and http://api.tzd.me/export.php?page=0 will export the list in BEACON format, with headers to indicate pagination status.<br />
|- <br />
| ujeb.se || 2018-07-12 <br />
| Appears non-incremental, can set a custom ID optionally. Always returns 301 as long as the ID is longer than 2 characters and isn't a static page link like <nowiki>http://ujeb.se/faq</nowiki>; if the ID is invalid, the Location header points to http://ujeb.se/. Examples: <nowiki>http://ujeb.se/L4nFx</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://ujeb.se/hj9gr</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://ujeb.se/archiveteam</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| untiny.me || 2016-04-29<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| ushare.education || 2016-11-19<br />
| The resource-sharing website for Scottish educational resources (run in partnership with the Scottish Qualifications Authority). Not very active, or well known by students / teachers. Resources are shared by a URL, which is shortened. Resources also include a description and rating. All resources can be viewed through the "Search Resources" page, although this likely requires visiting all of the 101 pages in the search results. Each page holds roughly 10 results, so there is probably only around 1000 total URLs, with only a handful being added daily. URLs take the form: http://ushare.education/rsl/<ID>, with ID being an arbitrary non-user-definable string. However the URL shortener seems to have been poorly designed, and http://ushare.education/rsl/null is listed as a link to a resource, yet it does not work. Other links work, and it is currently unknown how many links suffer from this problem - perhaps there is only one. The links on the website are in fact full links to the original resources. This means that it is not necessary even to visit the links to determine their destination - simply parsing the href attribute of the link's tag will do.<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| url.az || 2016-04-29<br />
| Pays for URLs shortened through it (presumably with ads, thereby likely more difficult to scrape) as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| url.ie || 2016-04-29<br />
| Returns 302 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 404 for invalid URLs. Sequential lowercase alphanumeric. Namespace has reached 4 characters. Alive as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| usite.hu/link.php || 2016-08-18<br />
| Numeric incremental, public database - [0-9]{1,5}, starts at 1 (see http://usite.hu/link.php?k=16000 for full list of links) ex: http://usite.hu/x/18084 http://usite.hu/x/18085 valid requests return 302 Redirect to target link, invalid requests return 302 to /link.php (GET/HEAD)<br />
|-<br />
| vgn.am || 2016-09-18<br />
| Seems to be official shortener for Virgin Airlines; ex: vgn.am/6015BZvwd vgn.am/6189BHrg5 ; appears to be implemented by sprinklr.com based on the error page<br />
|-<br />
| vk.cc || 2015-11-07<br />
| no obvious way to create URLs from the home page (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
|vk-cc.com || 2017-06-25<br />
| (not the same as vk.cc) Russian url shortener for any url, not only from vk. You can shorten without registration Valid: "HTTP/1.1 200 OK", does not return Location. Invalid: "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found". As of 2017-06-25 the homepage says the total number of shorten links are 12144.(Does this include password protected, or only the public ones?) Example: https://vk-cc.com/1txW I shortened 6 urls, resulted with 4 to 6 characters, 0-1A-Za-z, with similar/same characters next to each other (XX, 0O), able to start with numbers. Also able to create custom short urls (with the field with the A - placeholder="Свой адрес короткой ссылки" with maxlength="50" (!)) Potencial issue: on the default, not registered shortening setting it has a 5-second contdown (intermediate page) and a clickable link after the countdown. Solvable by view-source:https://vk-cc.com/1txW, link on the 151th line (always at the same place with the default settings). TODO: explore short url options (timer, password, multiple urls...) creation with registration.<br />
|-<br />
|vqr.mx || 2018-12-12<br />
| Returns 302 for successful and not successful. Allows creation of shorteners.<br />
|-<br />
| vzturl.com || 2016-02-10<br />
| example: http://vzturl.com/apa83 ; appears to allow public shortening, alive as of 01:10, 10 February 2016 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| www1.to / www2.to / www3.to || 2018-10-30<br />
| Japanese URL shortener managed by SmarTrans. Actual responses vary on a case-by-case basis. http://www3.to/halu and http://www3.to/mugiyainfo give a status code of 200 with a meta tag indicating its destination. http://www3.to/rci will serve a 302. http://www1.to/maruten2 and http://www3.to/mocone serve actual web content and http://www2.to/sakuraike2000/ and http://www2.to/b-s/ serve a 200 with a message saying they expired <br />
|-<br />
| wapurl.co.uk || 2016-09-18<br />
| seems alive ; claims to be soon restricting their API to registered users<br />
|-<br />
| xar.ph || 2016-12-13<br />
| Bitly alias, no new entries since April 2016.<br />
|-<br />
| xurl.es || 2016-05-15<br />
| seems alive as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT) - Allows creation of new shortlinks, currently 5 characters (lowercase + digits), appears to be random. http://xurl . es/7dnv0 Allows converting a shortlink into a custom link. Valid returns 302 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 302 with Location: http://xurl . es for both GET and HEAD. (as of 01:39, 15 May 2016 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| x.vu || 2016-09-05<br />
| seems alive, allows public shortening. Example: x.vu/vR8ptx<br />
|-<br />
| xxsURL.de || 2016-04-14<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| y0.hu || 2017-06-17<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| y2u.be || 2016-09-17<br />
| meant for YouTube videos, simply redirects anything to the corresponding YouTube ID, i.e. http://www.y2u . be/7458qm becomes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7458qm (as such, not relevant to URLTeam)<br />
|-<br />
| yep.it || 2016-06-14<br />
| allows custom shortcodes; validates provided URL; example: http://yep . it/bgnhpu ; seems non-incremental, only lowercase letters; appears to make the whole database available via: http://yep . it/stat.php?page=5719 (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)); claims 36,383 URLs as of 00:58, 15 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| zi.ma || 2016-04-14<br />
| DNS didn't resolve at one point, but seems alive (although it's not totally clear it offers url shortening) as of 02:50, 14 May 2016 (EDT) Appears to combine multiple URLs into one short URL (see linkbun.ch)<br />
|- class="sortbottom"<br />
! Shortener<br />
! Last Checked on<br />
! Notes<br />
|}<br />
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==== "Official" shorteners ====<br />
This section lists shorteners specific for certain companies or services. Most of the time, these are limited to the relevant platforms, and it's often not possible to manually create shortlinks.<br />
<br />
* aka.ms - Internal shortener for [[Microsoft]] - There is a log in page at <nowiki>https://aka.ms</nowiki>, though only employee Microsoft accounts appear to be allowed access. - Examples: <nowiki>https://aka.ms/wsldocs</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://aka.ms/free</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://aka.ms/MIMWAL</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://aka.ms/MIMWAL/Releases</nowiki><br />
* ask.fm/a - ASKfm - Seems non-incremental; appears to no longer exist as of 2017-08-21 13:30 UTC, returning 404. - Example: <nowiki>http://ask.fm/a/40k05kgp</nowiki> -> <nowiki>http://ask.fm/Q7Niki/answer/42128504404</nowiki><br />
* bln.gs - [[Blingee]] - Examples: <nowiki>http://bln.gs/b/28fss0</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://bln.gs/b/1</nowiki><br />
* bsa.ly - private shortener for BuySellAds.com as of 15:05, 2 January 2016 (EST)<br />
* CokeURL.com - Coca-Cola - Examples: <nowiki>https://cokeurl.com/3yuz9</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://cokeurl.com/vs5s</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://cokeurl.com/theaterseat</nowiki><br />
* ctv.news - <nowiki> ctvnews.ca </nowiki><br />
* di.sn - Disney - Appears to have a few different schemes. Valid response = 301 to URL with "Location: " header. Invalid response: 301 to /error?url=theinvalidurlgoeshere in "Location: " header. No apparent public method to create URLs. - Examples: <nowiki>http://di.sn/rht</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://di.sn/6015ByMqD</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://di.sn/6006IwjY</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://di.sn/a05C</nowiki>.<br />
* disq.us - [[Disqus]]<br />
* eepurl.com - [[MailChimp]] - Allowed public shortening for a while; only allows use by MailChimp customers as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST).<br />
* fav.me - [[deviantART]] - Appears to be in heavy use on deviantART itself and on [[Twitter]] (probably elsewhere). Format is <code>d[a-z0-9]{1,6}</code> and represents the deviation's ID number in base 36. Seems to restrict by user-agent: using <code>user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36</code> (GET and HEAD) provides a 301 redirect, destination in Location:, without 403 Forbidden. Invalid: 404 - Example: <nowiki>http://fav.me/d31sfml</nowiki><br />
* fb.me - [[Facebook]]<br />
* flic.kr - [[Flickr]]<br />
* fnd.us - [http://fundrazr.com Fundrazr.com]<br />
* g.co - Google (used for Google products and services)<br />
* getpocket.com/s/ - [[Pocket]]<br />
* ggbm.at - GeoGebra (www.geogebra.org)<br />
* git.io - [[GitHub]] only URLs - Public form at <nowiki>https://git.io/</nowiki>, only accepts github.com URLs. URLs appear to be sequential for some operations. Valid = 302, invalid = 404. - Examples: <nowiki>https://git.io/xYTU</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://git.io/vtrEf</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://git.io/bQ6v7Q</nowiki><br />
* go.code42.com - Internal shortener of Code42, the company behind CrashPlan. Redirects using JavaScript. - Examples: <nowiki>http://go.code42.com/o03zP00lB00oqO0uRUMbJM0</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://go.code42.com/CM700s0hM0GO0Pbt3i02U0i</nowiki><br />
* goo.gl - Google<br />
* gsfn.us - [https://getsatisfaction.com/ Get Satisfaction] - 0-9a-z, appears sequential, highest ID around <code>5????</code> as of 2017-10-08. Simply redirected to <nowiki>getsatisfaction.com</nowiki>, which does the actual redirect. - Examples: <nowiki>http://gsfn.us/t/2aoq7</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://gsfn.us/t/51hin</nowiki><br />
* gty.im - Getty Images - Links by editorial number - Example: <nowiki>http://gty.im/488068439</nowiki><br />
* gyo.tc - [[Megalodon.jp]] - Short URLs for archived pages, IDs appear sequential, most likely matching <code>[a-zA-Z0-9]+</code>, some IDs like <code>a</code> or <code>aa</code> appear to be missing, though. (<code>a0</code>, <code>b</code>, <code>ab</code>, <code>aA</code> or <code>aaa</code> work fine.) Always returns 302, but if the ID is invalid, the Location header starts with <code><nowiki>https://megalodon.jp/?url=http%3A%2F%2Frequested_id</nowiki></code> instead of <code><nowiki>https://megalodon.jp/[date]/[url]</nowiki></code>. Example: <nowiki>http://gyo.tc/1KMbs</nowiki><br />
* hrts.me - University of Hertfordshire. Short codes seem to match <code>[a-zA-Z0-9]{5}</code>. No HEAD support; 301 + Location header on success, 404 on error. Mainly used on https://twitter.com/UniofHerts - Example (2017-08-21 13:45 UTC): <nowiki>http://hrts.me/J2o9h</nowiki><br />
* hub.me - HubPages - Two types of short URLs, starting with either "a" (for "article"?) or "r" (for "replies"?). The shortcode afterwards is then a base62-encoded ID (0-9a-zA-Z). Highest IDs as of 2017-10-09 near the example links. - Examples: <nowiki>http://hub dot me/alvyn</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://hub dot me/r1cxN</nowiki><br />
* igg.me - Indiegogo - Most seem to use chosen names - Examples: <nowiki>http://igg.me/at/defendbitcoinmagazine</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://igg.me/at/1NaE6yoZIaY</nowiki><br />
* kas.pr - Kaspersky Lab - Requires login; 302 redirect/404 error on GET, does not support HEAD - Examples (2017-08-24): <nowiki>https://kas.pr/x4Hq</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kas.pr/Hga7</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kas.pr/A9Rp</nowiki><br />
* lnkd.in - [[LinkedIn]]<br />
* mfi.re - MediaFire<br />
* mir.cr - [https://www.mirrorcreator.com/ Mirror Creator]<br />
* msft.it - Microsoft (or maybe something called "Sprinklr"?)<br />
* mysp.ac - [[Myspace]]<br />
* off365.ms - Office 365<br />
* pixiv.me - [[Pixiv]] - Short URLs for user profiles, uses pixiv usernames, i.e. for a user named shapoco, the short URL is <nowiki>https://pixiv.me/shapoco</nowiki>. Returns 301 if the user exists, 404 otherwise.<br />
* pixiv.net - [[Pixiv]] - /i/:id for short image URLs (i.e. <nowiki>https://pixiv.net/i/69467027</nowiki>), /u/:id for short user URLs (i.e. <nowiki>https://pixiv.net/u/24431887</nowiki>). If the given ID isn't in the <code>[0-9]+</code> range, the redirect on <code><nowiki>https://www.pixiv.net/[type]/[id]</nowiki></code> returns 404, otherwise it returns 301. Invalid IDs still redirect fine as long as they're in the <code>[0-9]+</code> range; for user pages the resulting page is returned with 200 regardless of whether the user actually exists, for illustration pages the possible codes are 200/404/400 for valid/non-extant/invalid IDs, respectively. Example of 404: <nowiki>https://pixiv.net/i/2442</nowiki>, example of 400: <nowiki>https://pixiv.net/i/24422222222222</nowiki><br />
* pocket.co - [[Pocket]]<br />
* post.ly - [[Posterous]]<br />
* qr.ae - [[Quora]]<br />
* redd.it - [[Reddit]]<br />
* rsg.ms - Rockstar Games<br />
* skfb.ly - Sketchfab - Maps to <nowiki>https://sketchfab.com/s/CODE</nowiki>, which performs the actual redirect. Some very old links appear to use 9-char lower-case alphanumeric codes. In February 2017, four-char codes of <code>[0-9a-zA-Z]</code> were exhausted, after which they apparently switched to five-char codes (same charset) starting around <code>6????</code>. - Examples: <nowiki>http://skfb.ly/mki3fe1d0</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://skfb.ly/GXzZ</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://skfb.ly/6nCrW</nowiki><br />
* su.pr - [[StumbleUpon]]<br />
* t.co - [[Twitter]]<br />
* tdrt.io - Techdirt<br />
* tl.gd - [[TwitLonger]] - Maybe Sequential, site specific, maps directly to www.twitlonger.com - Examples (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)):<nowiki>http://tl.gd/79aumf</nowiki> -> <nowiki>http://www.twitlonger.com/show/79aumf</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://tl.gd/n_1sn6j78</nowiki> -> <nowiki>http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sn6j78</nowiki><br />
* tmblr.co - [[Tumblr]] - HEAD and GET supported; 301 on success, 404 on error. The shortcodes are too long for terroroftinytown to handle. - Examples: <nowiki>https://tmblr.co/Z4fZpx1gfu_mU</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://tmblr.co/ZIKCSm1uGRMbv</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://tmblr.co/ZAvEqsfi4_rO</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://tmblr.co/Zqar4t1x8GPpN</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://tmblr.co/ZJ8Wby1L9QRac</nowiki><br />
* tmi.me - UberSocial - Message shortener (for Twitter) rather than URL shortener. Likely sequential. See first example link for some more info. - Examples (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)): <nowiki>http://tmi.me/43vkS</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://tmi.me/1fdmrO</nowiki><br />
* tw.appstore.com - Apple App Store<br />
* uoft.me - University of Toronto<br />
* upl.nu - Ung Pirat (Youth Pirate Party, Sweden)<br />
* wh.gov - White House - Just expands wh.gov into www.whitehouse.gov (as of 20:53, 5 December 2015 (EST), verified 2017-08-21 14:00 UTC) - Example: <nowiki>https://wh.gov/i3lXR</nowiki><br />
* wp.me - [[Wordpress.com]] - HEAD; 301 on success, 404 on error. The shortcodes can have two different formats. - Examples: <nowiki>http://wp.me/f2B5</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://wp.me/a92Te1-q</nowiki><br />
** The simple format encodes a blog's "siteID" in base62 (0-9a-zA-Z).<br />
** The more complex one is used for specific pages on a blog and matches <code>^https?://wp\.me/(?P<type>[sPpa])(?P<blogID>[0-9a-zA-Z]+)-(?P<identifier>.+)$</code>; the types stand for "slug", "page", "post", and "attachment", respectively. For "slug", the identifier is a custom-chosen name. "Page", "post", and "attachment" types map to the <code>page_id</code>, <code>p</code>, and <code>attachment_id</code> URL parameters, respectively (e.g. <nowiki>https://wp.me/Pf2B5-1</nowiki> -> <nowiki>http://en.blog.wordpress.com/?page_id=1</nowiki>), which then redirect to the relevant page or return a 404.<br />
* youtu.be - [[YouTube]]<br />
<br />
==== bit.ly aliases ====<br />
<br />
A bit.ly alias works just like a bit.ly URL. The shortcode is the same, it sets the same bit.ly cookie, and DNS resolving the address shows the IP addresses are the same as bit.ly. The homepage may be different however. (Bit.ly IPs (as of 10/18/2016): 67.199.248.{10,11,12,13} see support.bitly dot com/knowledgebase/articles/76741-how-do-i-set-up-a-custom-short-domain-)<br />
<br />
* 1.usa.gov - USA Government<br />
* 4sq.com - Foursquare<br />
* abcn.ws - ABC News (examples: abcn.ws/1aOoijH ; abcn.ws/okiWbi )<br />
* aje.me - Aljazeera<br />
* amzn.to - [[Amazon]]<br />
* arfo.sk<br />
* atfp.co - Foreign Policy<br />
* bbc.in - BBC<br />
* bbybgrl.com<br />
* binged.it - Bing (bonus points for being longer than bing.com)<br />
* blizz.ly - Blizzard, some matches up (the generated ones), but there are a few which differ from their bit.ly/ counterpart, the direct (with meaningful words) like http://blizz.ly/BuyOverwatch <br />
* bloom.bg - Bloomberg<br />
* bzfd.it - Buzzfeed<br />
* canva.link<br />
* carrot.cr - Carrot Creative<br />
* cb.com - Career Builder<br />
* chzb.gr - Cheezeburger<br />
* cnet.co - CNET<br />
* cnnmon.ie - CNN Money<br />
* conta.cc - Constant Contact Inc.<br />
* corb.is - Corbis Images<br />
* cot.ag<br />
* crks.me - as of 03:05, 19 August 2016 (EDT)<br />
* curbed.cc - Curbed.com<br />
* econ.st - The Economist<br />
* emarketee.rs - Emarketeers<br />
* engri.sh - Engrish.com<br />
* eonli.ne - E! Online<br />
* es.pn - ESPN<br />
* feedly.com/k/ - redirect, see below for their own<br />
* fltsim.me<br />
* fxn.ws - Fox News (Examples: fxn.ws/18KBPhy, fxn.ws/1MqIqKs, fxn.ws/1jAAK0M) - Valid response: 301 with URL in Location: header. Invalid response: 302 with www.foxnews.com in Location: header. Space appears to be too large to search.<br />
* got.cr - Crunchyroll<br />
* gph.is - giphy.com gives 301 on Successful Redirect to Gif. Gives 302 on Bad short url and redirects to Giphy.com. Currently gives a 7 character alphanumeric shortcode. Unsure if 6 character or less was used.<br />
* grd.to - The Grid TO<br />
* hub.am - HubSpot<br />
* huff.to - Huffington Post<br />
* ift.tt - [[IFTTT]]<br />
* j.mp - bit.ly<ref>http://blog.bitly.com/post/179664996/go-ahead-and-j-mp</ref><br />
* jrnl.to - thejournal.ie<br />
* kck.st - Kickstarter<br />
* kore.us<br />
* lat.ms - Los Angeles Times<br />
* lemde.fr -- alive as of 01:10, 10 February 2016 (EST)<br />
* lft.to - Lyft<br />
* marsdd.it - MaRS Discovery District<br />
* mbist.ro - MediaBistro<br />
* mojo.ly - Mother Jones<br />
* nydn.us - New York Daily News<br />
* nyti.ms - The New York Times<br />
* on.fb.me - Facebook<br />
* on.rare.us - Rare (rare.us)<br />
* on.si.com<br />
* qr.cm<br />
* reut.rs - Reuters<br />
* sdut.us - The San Diego Union-Tribune<br />
* snd.sc - Soundcloud<br />
* spoti.fi - [http://spotify.com Spotify]<br />
* stanford.io - Stanford University<br />
* Tcrn.ch - Tech Crunch <br />
* theatln.tc - The Atlantic<br />
* ti.me - Time Magazine<br />
* usat.ly - USA TODAY<br />
* vstphl.ly - Visit Philly<br />
* wapo.st - Washington Post (ex: http://wapo.st/2bhQGBv ) alive as of 01:11, 14 October 2016 (EDT)<br />
* whrt.it - We Heart It (weheartit.com); shortener domain does not resolve as of 2017-09-08 00:25 UTC, but the main site is still online<br />
* zmb.me<br />
<br />
=== Dead or Broken ===<br />
<br />
(please keep list alphabetized)<br />
<br />
* 1click.im - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* 1dl.us - For sale as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* 1link.in - Website dead<br />
* 1url.com - Server not responding as of 01:10, 10 February 2016 (EST)<br />
* 2big.at - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* 2su.de - domain for sale as of 01:29, 21 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* 2tag.nl - generated QR codes for the short URLs for use on social media; domain sold sometime between 2016-06-19 and 2016-08-02; old links broken as of 2017-08-21<br />
* 301.to - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* 307.to - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* 4ks.net - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* 4ms.me - redirects to twoo.com as of 01:29, 21 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* 4zip.in - For sale as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* 6url.com - HTML redirect, Error 500 ; Windows IIS blank page as of 02:13, 26 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* 7rz.de -- "Under Construction" page as of 02:13, 26 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* 7vd.cn -- Server not responding as of 04:04, 1 January 2016 (EST) ; was Baidu Short URL service. Example: http://7vd.cn/rjtS<br />
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* a.gd - redirects to eg.gg which is a (somewhat entertaining) parking page as of 02:13, 26 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* a.nF - seems to allow public shortening; has list of recent short URLs, and totals (9279 total); appears alive as 02:12, 26 December 2015 (EST) ; server not responding as of 23:38, 26 February 2016 (EST)<br />
* aa.cx - Redirects to a non-English VPS site as of 00:58, 15 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* abcurl.net - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* abra.me - server down as of 21:52, 21 November 2015 (EST)<br />
* ad.vu - mirror of adjix.com, application not found; DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* ad4.us - For sale as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* adcraft.co - parking page as of 19:43, 9 January 2016 (EST)<br />
* adcrun.ch - parking page as of 18:06, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* adfro.gs - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* adnld.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* adshor.tk - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* adspl.us - parking page as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* adzip.us - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* afx.cc - Just the letters "afx" in a giant, bright green font as of 02:13, 26 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* aka.gr -- "This account has been suspended" as of 03:57, 1 January 2016 (EST) It was a Greek url shortener, written by Konstantinos Botonakis, with sponsored ads. Ex: http://aka.gr/bit<br />
* ar.gy - GitHub holding page as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST)<br />
* arm.in - domain for sale as of 21:44, 21 November 2015 (EST)<br />
* arst.ch - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* articleshrine.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* asso.in - seems dead (parking page?) as of 2017-08-21 21:20 UTC<br />
* aurls.info - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
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* bacn.me<br />
* be.vc<br />
* biglnk.com - dead, replaced with unrelated blog<br />
* biturl.net - for sale as of 01:01, 6 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* bizz.cc - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* bloat.me - parking page as of 15:05, 2 January 2016 (EST)<br />
* Buk.me - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* buraga.org - seems to be a social network, not a url shortener as of 01:01, 6 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* bwtm.co - DNS fails to resolve.<br />
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* calyp.co - Server error. 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.<br />
* canurl.com - Website dead<br />
* catchylink.com - Advertising a mutual fund as of 01:31, 13 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* catchyurl.co<br />
* cf.ly (CashFly.com) -- redirects to happydaydeals4you.com as of 02:04, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* chod.sk - Appears non-incremental, not resolving<br />
* cl.lk - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* cli.gs - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST); Appears non-incremental<br />
* cliccami.info - Apache default page as of 15:33, 2 January 2016 (EST)<br />
* clk.my - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* clop.in -- domain parked as of 21:52, 21 November 2015 (EST)<br />
* coge.la -- just a logo as of 22:00, 21 November 2015 (EST)<br />
* come.to - ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130126170221/http://come.to/ wayback of homepage]) Related to various .to shorteners. Started in 1997, killed in 2013 after [https://web.archive.org/web/20110820081653/http://www.myphotoalbum.com/ parent company] died.<br />
* Crum.pl - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
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* da.co - Parked as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST)<br />
* dag.gy - Used to be a bit.ly alias; parking page as of 2018-12-13, 16:55 UTC.<br />
* dai3.net - Offers a URL shorting service, but it doesn't seem to work; unclear if existing links work; as of 01:46, 14 July 2016 (EDT)<br />
* dfl.me - For sale as of 03:09, 19 August 2016 (EDT)<br />
* dft.ba - Server gone as of 01:11, 17 November 2015 (EST) ; site had [https://web.archive.org/web/20150912133115/http://dft.ba/ shutdown message] (claiming links would continue to work), from July 2015 through Sept 2015. "Don't forget to be awesome - custom shortened name", by DFTBA Records. Examples: http://dft.ba/-aWOr ; http://dft.ba/-bitdo ; http://dft.ba/-urlshortener<br />
* digg.com - discontinued - [http://about.digg.com/blog/update-diggs-short-url-service]<br />
* domainonair.com - appears to just offer DNS services as of 01:46, 14 July 2016 (EDT)<br />
* do.my - Blank page as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST)<br />
* dollarfalls.info - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* dopen.us - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* dwarfurl.com - Numeric, appears incremental: http://dwarfurl.com/08041 ; domain for sale as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST)<br />
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* easy.tc - DNS not resolving.<br />
* easyuri.com - Appears hex incremental with last digit random/checksum: http://easyuri.com/1339f , http://easyuri.com/133a3 ; blank page as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST); doesn't respond as of 23:34, 18 September 2016 (EDT)<br />
* eqent.me - Improper redirect to bitly.<br />
* esyURL.com - Russian error page saying the site is temporarily suspended as of 23:34, 18 September 2016 (EDT)<br />
* eweri.com - doesn't respond as of 23:34, 18 September 2016 (EDT)<br />
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* fa.by - Shut down on Apr 8, 2012 (according to [https://web.archive.org/web/20120407161749/fa.by/? Wayback]). Last checked 01:22, 17 February 2016 (EST)<br />
* feedzil.la - Domain parked; server doesn't respond as of 01:22, 17 February 2016 (EST)<br />
* fff.to - Parking page as of 01:22, 17 February 2016 (EST)<br />
* fire.to - Server doesn't respond as of 01:22, 17 February 2016 (EST)<br />
* flpbd.it - Flipboard -- Appears down as of 02:45, 19 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* fly2.ws - Empty page as of 01:22, 17 February 2016 (EST)<br />
* fon.gs - server down as of 22:00, 21 November 2015 (EST); DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* freak.to - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* fuseurl.com - Account Suspended as of 00:29, 6 October 2016 (EDT)<br />
* fuzzy.to - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* fwd4.me - redirects to a site about traffic cameras as of 22:00, 21 November 2015 (EST)<br />
* fwib.net - parking page as of 01:22, 17 February 2016 (EST)<br />
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* g.ro.lt - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* gca.sh - Dead website, broken links as of 17 Augustus 2017 (CEST). According to archive.org: it was working on 2016 April 26, but not on 2016 October 1. Owned by GCash.com, which has a working website at the moment.<br />
* gl.am - Empty as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
* go.to - sold its domains on Sedo apparently. <br />
* go2.me - everything 404s<br />
* go2cut.com - Website dead<br />
* gob.li - Golbin Ridge Limited. Timed out<br />
* gonext.org - not resolving<br />
* goshrink.com - not resolving as of 02:13, 4 December 2016 (EST)<br />
* gurl.es - Server not responding as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
* gx.si<br />
* gyar.eu - Server gone as of 01:07, 17 November 2015 (EST) (examples: http://gyar.eu/c8 ; http:// gyar.eu/agB)<br />
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* hao.jp - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* hashonomy.com - Timed out<br />
* hex.io - Gandi parking page as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
* hj.to -- server requests HTTP Basic auth as of 22:05, 21 November 2015 (EST)<br />
* hmm.li -- "dead for some time" and likely unrelated to hmm.ph according to hmmm_ on IRC as of 2017-08-14 20:40 UTC<br />
* hmm.ph -- Domain for sale as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
* hop.im -- a personal homepage as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
* href.hu<br />
* href.in - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* htcdev.net - DNS not resolving.<br />
* Hurl.it - does not seem to be a shortener as of 02:13, 4 December 2016 (EST)<br />
* hurl.me - doesn't resolve as of 02:13, 4 December 2016 (EST)<br />
* hurl.no - Shut down sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20110305152644/http://hurl.no/hurl.asp March 5, 2011] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110529121656/http://hurl.no/hurl.asp May 29, 2011] due to an influx of spam. As of 02:24, 3 December 2015 (EST), the domain appears to be owned by someone else.<br />
* hurl.ws - spam blog as of 01:29, 21 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* hsblinks.com - app login page as of 02:13, 4 December 2016 (EST)<br />
* htxt.it - redirects to spam as of 02:13, 4 December 2016 (EST)<br />
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* iawtp.me - DNS not resolving<br />
* icanhaz.com - Contains a "closed as of June 2010" message as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
* icymi.me - DNS not resolving<br />
* idek dot net DNS not resolving as of 00:04, 6 October 2016 (EDT) ; seemed alive, allowed public shortening as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT) ; idek dot net/CDN, idek dot net/CND ; alphabet: asdASD123 ; 600 ghits ; 3, some 4 char length; existing: 301 - location ; not existing: http://new.idek dot net/SHORTCODE ; new.idek.net broken, cant create new links. seems incremental<br />
* ik.my - Domain for sale as of 01:46, 14 July 2016 (EDT)<br />
* iKr.me - Asian-script spam site as of 02:24, 3 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* ilix.in - domain parked<br />
* imfy.us - requires a recaptcha to get to the linked site, and avast goes nuts. DNS fails to resolve. <br />
* infovak.com - redirects to some marketing site as of 01:46, 14 July 2016 (EDT)<br />
* inspr.in - Inspired Beta. Can't find server<br />
* ir.pe - server times out as of 01:29, 21 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* irt.me - DNS not resolving as of 02:24, 3 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* its.my - Just an advert as of 04:07, 1 January 2016 (EST)<br />
* itz.bz - domain parked as of 01:46, 14 July 2016 (EDT)<br />
* ix.it - Not resolving<br />
* ix.lt - website about a "Music Without Walls" project (?) as of 02:13, 4 December 2016 (EST)<br />
* j2j.de - empty blog as of 01:29, 21 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* jijr.com - Doesn't appear to be a shortener, now parked as of 04:07, 1 January 2016 (EST)<br />
* joomlagyar.hu/usb - DNS not resolving<br />
* jump.to - dead as of February 1, 2013<br />
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* k.vu - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* kaaf.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* keTKP.in - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* kisa.ch - Domain for sale as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
* kissa.be - "Kissa.be url shortener service is shutdown"<br />
* kl.am - "kl.am Closes its Shell" (server not available as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT))<br />
* kly.so - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* Kots.Nu - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* krunchd.com - redirects to a real estate site as of 00:58, 15 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* krz.ch - redirects to idealizer.ch (SEO company) as of 02:24, 3 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* kuijt.nu - replaced with unrelated site<br />
* kurl.us - Parked.<br />
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* l1nks.org - redirects to Asian porn site as of 01:46, 14 July 2016 (EDT)<br />
* l.gg - server not responding as of 01:31, 13 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* l.pr - LinksPreadeR ({{url|http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/09/new-url-shortener-is-kind-of-cool-kind-of-defeats-the-point/|review from TechCrunch}}) - DNS not resolving as of 01:09, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* liltext.com - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* linkee.com - shut down with a notice on July 23, 2014<br />
* liurl.cn - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* lk.to<br />
* ln-s dot ru - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* ln-s.net - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* LNK.by - Cyrillic domain parking page as of 01:09, 7 December 2015 (EST) <br />
* lnk.gd - "This account has been suspended. Either the domain has been overused, or the reseller ran out of resources." as of 17:51, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* lnk.ly - DNS not resolving as of 01:09, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* lnk.ms - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* lnk.nu - parking page as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* lnkurl.com - Website empty as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
* lru.jp - Just shows a login form as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
* lst.bz - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* lurl.no - Server doesn't respond as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
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* m112.hu - Link creation (and website) appears to be broken as of 22:28, 28 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* mangk.us - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* marv.ly - DNS fails to resolve.<br />
* mash.to - Cannot connect ; Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* me.lt - Connection refused.<br />
* me2.hu - DNS error as of 22:28, 28 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* memurl.com - Pronounceable. Broken.<br />
* mens.hm - Not responding (timeout)<br />
* micURL.com - parking page as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* miklos.dk - Doesn't appear guessable: http://miklos.dk/!z7bA6a - "Vi arbejder på sagen..."<br />
* min2.me - now a CDN called bit2me (?) as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* mindless.co<br />
* minilien.com - Doesn't appear guessable: http://minilien.com/?9nyvwnA0gh - Website dead<br />
* minilink.org - parking page as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* minim.in - Times out<br />
* miniurl.com - Just an ad page as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
* miniurl.hu - Times out as of 22:28, 28 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* minurl.org - Presently in ERROR 404<br />
* mke.me - Service Temporarily Unavailable as of 00:58, 15 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* ms.me - Parked.<br />
* msplinks.com - Used by Myspace[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Myspace#Security]<br />
* mtw.tl - everything 403s<br />
* muhlink.com - Not resolving<br />
* myloc.me - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* MySp.in - parking page as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* mytinyurl.com - redirects to an unrelated image<br />
* MyURL.in - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* myurl.us - cpanel frontend<br />
* myv.bz - Not resolving<br />
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* ndurl.com - redirects to site offering "Minecraft for Free" as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* nm.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* nn.nf - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* not.my - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* nsyed.com - Just contains a short equation as of 02:00, 14 July 2016 (EDT)<br />
* nxy.in - Just displays "HNY 2016!" as of 15:00, 20 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
* nyturl.com - NY Times (bonus points for being longer than nyt.com, which they own). Taken by squatters<br />
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* o-x.fr - Non-loading adverts as of 01:11, 3 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* oc1.us - parking page as of 17:51, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* om.ly - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* omf.gd - DNS not responding as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST) ; Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* onvzi.com - DNS fails to resolve.<br />
* ooqx.com - domain for sale as of 01:29, 21 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* ooze.us - domain for sale as of 02:00, 14 July 2016 (EDT)<br />
* orz.se - domain registrar as of 01:11, 3 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* otf.me - Empty WordPress site<br />
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* para.pt - parking page as of 01:31, 13 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* Pendek.in - parking page as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* Pic.gd - appears to be an image sharing site as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* Piko.me - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* ping.fm - Fails to resolve.<br />
* PiURL.com - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* pli.gs - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* pln.so - Not working.<br />
* Plo.cc - parking page as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* plzretwt.me - Fails to resolve.<br />
* pnut.co - see nutshellurl.com <strike>Ex: http://pnut.co/3a (returns 200 on a HEAD request; will need to use GET requests)</strike> -- Connection times out (nutshellurl.com still working, see Alive) as of 03:45, 10 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* pops.ci - pops.ci/Q0dFvW ; all 6 Character ; uppercase, lowercase & digits ; ~2500 Results(according to google) ; existing: 301, Location: ; not existing: 404, 302(redirs to popsci main page); DNS doesn't resolve as of 00:27, 21 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* pp.gg - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* pt2.me - default server page as of 02:09, 9 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* Puke.It - parking page as of 02:09, 9 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* pulsene.ws - Expired. Parked by GoDaddy.<br />
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* qlnk.net - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* qte.me - rediects to mcdev.com which times out as of 01:29, 21 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* qu.tc - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* qurlyq.com - Javascript redirect. Appears sequential: http://qurlyq.com/5nf. Domain parked.<br />
* qux.in - Parking page as of 01:04, 10 December 2015 (EST)<br />
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* r.im - page is blank (but contains title) as of 01:04, 10 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* rb6.me - redirects to "coming soon" page as of 17:51, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* RDE.me - GoDaddy parking page as of 01:04, 10 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* re.ad - Fails to resolve.<br />
* readthis.ca - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* reallytinyurl.com - A non-English blog of some kind as of 15:00, 20 March 2016 (EDT)<br />
* redir.ec - 403 Forbidden as of 17:51, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* redirx.com - Lowercase alpha only, appears sequential or guessable - Ex: http://redirx.com/?wyok. Website still online but does not resolve existing URLs nor does it allow creating new ones (responds with the message: ''blame the spammers'')<br />
* reducelnk.com - redirects to a web directory as of 03:08, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* retwt.me - Server fails to respond as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* rickroll.it - page with just ads as of 01:29, 21 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* riz.gd - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* RT.nu - parking page as of 01:11, 3 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* RubyURL.com - DNS not responding as of 02:24, 12 December 2015 (EST) ; Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* rurl.org - Service Temporarily Unavailable as of 00:58, 15 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* rww.tw - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
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* s.me - Domain parked.<br />
* s3nt.com - Probably sequential. http://s3nt.com/aa goes somewhere different from /ab . Domain parked.<br />
* s4c.in - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* Sai.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* sameurl.com - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* say.ly - redirects to unrelated site<br />
* scriptzon.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* scrnch.me - DNS not responding as of 01:15, 29 January 2016 (EST)<br />
* sdai.ly - Allows custom shorturl -- DNS does not resolve as of 03:45, 10 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* sdut.us - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* see.sc - Fails to resolve.<br />
* sfu.ca - server times out as of 01:29, 21 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* Short.ie - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* short.nr - DNS not responding as of 01:31, 13 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* short.to - Domain is parked - Probably sequential/loweralpha: http://short.to/msmp ; DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* Short.Url - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* shortlinks.co.uk - Working again. Maybe not. ; DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* shortxlink.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* shout.to - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* show.my - Likely dead (Folder listing) (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* shrinkify.com - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* shrinklink.co.uk - Doesn't appear sequential: http://www.shrinklink.co.uk/45bmx , www.shrinklink.co.uk/npk6xp . Domain parked.<br />
* shrinkurl.us -- <strike>Still resolves, but does not allow creating new URLs ("The URL you entered was not valid or did not exist.")</strike> - Connection refused as of 03:45, 10 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* shr.tn - 403 from CloudFlare as of 02:00, 14 July 2016 (EDT)<br />
* shrt.st - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* shrt.ws - personal homepage as of 01:29, 21 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* shrten.com - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* Shrtn.com - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* shrtn.us - myshorturls.appspot.com. 404, does not resolve<br />
* Shw.me - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* simurl.com - Doesn't appear guessable - Ex: http://simurl.com/panpes. Website is blank; does not resolve URLs ("This SimURL is now inactive") ; parking page as of 17:51, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* siteo.us - returns "521 Origin Down" as of 17:51, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* sitereview.me - page with no visible content as of 02:00, 14 July 2016 (EDT)<br />
* sk.gy - under construction as of 02:00, 14 July 2016 (EDT)<br />
* sl.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* slki dot ru - Not a shortener, not sure if it integrates one. (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* smallr.com - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* smf.is - DNS not resolving.<br />
* smfu.in - Currently not working, site exists. (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* smsh.me - Dead: Cannot connect to database. (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* snipie.com - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* snipurl.com - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* snpurl.biz - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* sns.mx - SNS Analytics, domain parked<br />
* snurl.com - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* socialcampaign.com - Times out as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* song.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* spedr.com - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* sq.com - Now redirects to Singapore Airlines.<br />
* srnk.net - redirects to tiny-url.info as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* srs.li - Not a shortener (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* surl.hu – [http://web.archive.org/web/20140716052816/http://surl.hu/ Last contact] on 2014-07-16, nearly 2M sURLs gone. Domain taken but idle now ; DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* SwU.me - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
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* tgr.me - Dead (403) (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* theminiurl.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* TimesURL.at - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* tini.us - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* tiniuri.com - Account suspended as of 00:58, 15 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* TinyPl.us - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* tinyuri.ca - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* tllg.net - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* tm.to - Twtmore has "flown away"<br />
* tnij.org - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* to.gg - Global Giving, everything 503s<br />
* to.je - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* to.vg - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* totesz.hu/x - Does not resolve as of 02:53, 19 August 2016 (EDT)<br />
* tpm.ly - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* traceurl.com - DNS fails to resolve.<br />
* trumpink.lt - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* tsort.us - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* tw6.us - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* tweet.me - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* tweetburner.com / twurl.nl - Appears incremental, everything 404s<br />
* tweez.me - redirects to vurl.com (which 404s) as of 04:04, 1 January 2016 (EST) ; was described as a "Free Premium URL Shortening Service"<br />
* Twip.us - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* twitpwr.com - Domain parked.<br />
* twitt.hu<br />
* twitterurl.net - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* twitterurl.org - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* twixar.com - "Estamos fora do ar por algum tempo, mas estamos trabalhando para voltar a oferecer o serviço para encurtar URLs longa em breve!"<br />
* twthpr.co - DNS not resolving.<br />
* twtr.us - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* twurl.cc - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))<br />
* twurl.nl - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
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* u.bb - No DNS as of 01:15, 29 January 2016 (EST)<br />
* u.mavrev.com - Stopped accepting new urls. Now times out. Shows a shared webhosting notice as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* u.nu - "The shortest URLs. period." Website dead since at least 1st of October 2010 (http://web.archive.org/web/20100104023208/http://u.nu/) ; Now it is "an East-West informed pan-cultural wellness community based in NYC" as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* u76.org - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* ub0.cc - redirects to software site http://www.shareitforpca.com/ as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* uiop.me - just lists an email address as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* ulu.lu - Gandi domain parking page as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* unfaker.it - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* updating.me - not a URL shortening service as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* ur.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* urizy.com - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* url.com - Redirects to a lyric search site as of 21:06, 21 November 2016 (EST)<br />
* url-press.com - Suspended by web host.<br />
* URL.AG - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* url.co.uk - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* url360.me - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* url4.eu - Site for sale as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* url9.com - Sequential, alphanumeric. Leading 0s are significant. "The site is working correctly."<br />
* urlborg.com - 404 Not Found.<br />
* urlBorg.com - 404s as of 01:29, 21 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* URLCorta.es - For sale as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* urlcover.com - Domain parked.<br />
* urlenco.de - server times out as of 01:29, 21 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* urlG.info - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* urlhawk.com - Domain parked as of 21:06, 21 November 2016 (EST)<br />
* urli.nl - Forbidden HTTP code as of 21:06, 21 November 2016 (EST)<br />
* urlot.com - DNS not responding as of 21:06, 21 November 2016 (EST)<br />
* urloo.com - domain for sale as of 01:29, 21 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com - random non-English baseball cap spam blog as of 21:06, 21 November 2016 (EST)<br />
* urls.im - redirects to a marketer's home page as of 21:06, 21 November 2016 (EST)<br />
* urlsinn.com - DNS not resolving.<br />
* urlsmash.com - DNS not resolving.<br />
* urltea.com - Dreamhost's coming soon page.<br />
* urlu.ms - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* urlvi.be - Domain parked.<br />
* urlx.ie - Redirects to software site as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* urlx.org - Owner has agreed to share his database<br />
* URLZ.at - Redirects to a clothing store as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* urlzen.com - For sale as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* use.my - DNS not responding as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* uxp.in - <s>still resolves URLs, but site just shows blank page</s>. Domain parked. <br />
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* vb.ly - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST) (but see above)<br />
* vi.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* vibemag.co - Vibe Magazine. Times out<br />
* viralurl.com - (alias vur.me, viralurl.biz, vurl.bz, virl.ws ) connection refused as of 02:53, 19 August 2016 (EDT)<br />
* virl.co - "Have fun with interesting lists" as of 02:44, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* vl.am - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* vm.lc - Just the words "Short is cool..." as of 02:44, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* voizle.com - redirects to lovesharma as of 01:29, 21 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* vsb.li / links.visibli.com/links/ - The latter uses truncated md5 hex string. See sharedby.co.<br />
* VTC.es - For sale as of 02:44, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* vurl.com - 404 as of 04:04, 1 January 2016 (EST)<br />
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* w3t.org - 403 Forbidden; construction page as of 02:44, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* w55.de - Just the domain name on the page as of 02:44, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* wa.la - For sale as of 02:44, 29 April 2016 (EDT)<br />
* wipi.es - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* wl.tl - DNS not resolving.<br />
* wlink.us - Domain parked.<br />
* wt.org - Seems to be unrelated personal homepage as of 22:21, 18 September 2016 (EDT)<br />
* wwy.me - Server not responding as of 04:04, 1 January 2016 (EST)<br />
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* x.se - Cannot resolve, but www.x.se works.<br />
* xaddr.com - Domain parked.<br />
* XeeURL.com - server not responding as of 12:32, 5 September 2016 (EDT)<br />
* xil.in - Under construction.<br />
* XiY.net - Attempts to resolve existing shortlinks return "Account Suspended". Does not appear to allow creation of new shortlinks. Seems to have issued 4 characters using [a-zA-Z0-9?] - http://xiy . net/9Hw3 http://xiy . net/?vfk (as of 17:39, 15 May 2016 (EDT))<br />
* xr.com - Doesn't resolve as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* xrl.in - Domain for sale as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* xrt.me - Spam blog as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* xurl.jp - Server not responding as of 12:32, 5 September 2016 (EDT)<br />
* xym.kr - Gibberish (?) Korean text blog.<br />
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* ya.com - Error message in Spanish as of 12:32, 5 September 2016 (EDT)<br />
* y.ahoo.it - [[Yahoo]]<br />
* ye.pe - Running an empty instance of OwnCloud as of 02:50, 14 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* yi.tl - Server not responding as of 12:32, 5 September 2016 (EDT)<br />
* yiyd.com - Directory listing for a spam site as of 02:50, 14 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
* yweb.com - Suspicious iframe with long url and fake loading gif image.<br />
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* z0p.de - Domain for sale as of 12:32, 5 September 2016 (EDT)<br />
* zi.mu - Server not responding as of 12:32, 5 September 2016 (EDT)<br />
* zi.pe - 404s as of 01:29, 21 June 2016 (EDT)<br />
* zip.li - parking page as of 17:51, 12 December 2015 (EST)<br />
* zip.sm - was a redirect to joturl.com. Now times out<br />
* ZipMyURL.com - Server not responding as of 12:32, 5 September 2016 (EDT)<br />
* zud.me - Allows creation of new shortlinks, but throws 404 when resolving. May be fixed at some point. Currently issuing 3 character shortlink (lowercase a-z so far), appears sequential. http://zud . me/xxd http://zud . me/xxe No custom shortlinks. Returns 404 error when resolving a shortlink (as of 01:39, 15 May 2016 (EDT))<br />
* zzang.kr - domain for sale as of 12:32, 5 September 2016 (EDT)<br />
* zz.gd - Was shut down due to spam sometime around 2010. Existing URLs do not seem to resolve as of 02:50, 14 May 2016 (EDT)<br />
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==== External list ====<br />
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* https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LD-D8mBBYdqS37oJ86VSb-fQwgM1R5tYGA3hjn6vQiE/edit#gid=0 This list is freely commentable (if you need write access PM luckcolor on archiveteam ircs) and it's managed by luckcolors. It lists dead shortners with archived data wich we can use to make a browsable archive. Last updated 20 June 2016.<br />
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==== Discontinued ====<br />
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* adjix.com - <s>Still resolves URLs, but site does not work: "The requested application was not found on this server."</s> - Is static host on AWS service.<ref>https://twitter.com/Adjix/status/154222637801943041</ref><br />
* feedly.com/e/ - realized that URL shorteners were bad <ref>http://blog.feedly.com/2014/10/28/feedly-url-shortener-retired/</ref>. Non-cooperative.<br />
* icanhaz.com -- shut down sometime around June 2010; [https://archive.org/details/icanhaz.com.2010.07.15 IA dump] that should be un-darked.<br />
* lks.uk.to -- no DNS as of 03:01, 15 December 2015 (EST) ; has a [https://archive.org/details/LKSBACKUP29_07_2010 dump] on IA in 301Works; need to ping them about un-darking it.<br />
* metamark.net / xrl.us - no longer allowing new urls to be shortened, existing urls still work (Ex. http://xrl.us/bfabog). Uploaded a database dump to Internet archive.<br />
* p.tl -- Used by Pixiv to link to illustrations using their ID number. Discontinued on 9/29/2017.<ref>http://p.tl/</ref><br />
* pnt.me - Doesn't appear guessable, too big a space to bruteforce: http://pnt.me/FzAblc (DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)) [https://archive.org/details/pnt.me.2010.07.28 IA dump] that should be un-darked.<br />
* s.tt - shortener of {{url|1=http://repost.us}}. There is a dump on IA: https://archive.org/details/stt-7-18-14 -- but it is still restricted, contrary to 301works rules ("a closing company will agree to allow 301Works to publish the mappings", as stated [https://archive.org/details/301works-faq here]). Someone should ping IA about this.<br />
* urlbrief.com - supposedly [https://archive.org/details/urlbrief co-operated] with 301Works.org -- but the collection is empty, and DNS doesn't respond as of 02:44, 15 December 2015 (EST). Someone should ping IA and ask them to un-dark the collection, if there is anything, per the 301works rules.<br />
* va.mu - server is down as of 23:04, 15 December 2015 (EST); 16 items on [https://archive.org/details/301vmu IA] that should be un-darked.<br />
* Zapt.In - 404's as of 23:10, 15 December 2015 (EST) ; https://archive.org/details/ZaptinShortedUrlsIn20113110 should be un-darked; appears to be under control of IA as of 30.5.16, 18:31 CEST<br />
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=== External lists to integrate ===<br />
See [[URLTeam/unsorted]]<br />
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== Archives ==<br />
<br />
Check out [[Audit2014]] and help audit the archives. In particular, the stuff not on Internet Archive needs to be uploaded.<br />
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* See the latest torrent release for URLs before Tinytown. A copy is available at [https://archive.org/details/URLTeamTorrentRelease2013July URLTeamTorrentRelease2013July]<br />
* Tinytown results are [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject:terroroftinytown&sort=-publicdate uploaded to the Internet Archive]. They are incremental, so you will need to download them all to get all URLs. A (manually updated) list of all the torrents is available [[URLTeam/torrents|here]].<br />
** They are formatted as follows:<br />
*** Each IA item (which can be downloaded in full via BitTorrent or as a zip file) contains multiple zip files, named <code>'''PROJECT_NAME'''.'''TIMESTAMP'''.zip</code> (where <code>'''PROJECT_NAME'''</code> is the warrior project name (as listed in the table below, and on http://tracker.archiveteam.org:1337/status) and <code>'''TIMESTAMP'''</code> is a dash-separated timestamp matching the name of the item.<br />
*** Each zip file contains a subdirectory matching the <code>'''PROJECT_NAME'''</code>, which contains a file named <code>'''PROJECT_NAME'''.meta.json.xz</code> and one or more files whose names start with one or more underscores, followed by <code>.txt.xz</code>.<br />
*** The <code>xz</code> files can be decompressed with the [[wikipedia:XZ Utils]].<br />
*** The <code>meta.json</code> file is a copy of the project settings (as linked from the table below) at the time the dump was made.<br />
*** The <code>txt</code> files contain the actual URLs, in [https://gbv.github.io/beaconspec/beacon.html BEACON] format.<br />
*** The simple description of BEACON format is that each line (except for a few header lines) consists of the shortcode, followed by a vertical bar, followed by the original URL.<br />
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== Weblinks ==<br />
* [http://urlte.am urlte.am]<br />
* [http://301works.org 301works.org]<br />
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20131025182943/http://rield.com/faq/why-url-shorteners-are-bad Why URL shortening services and shortURLs are bad]<br />
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=== Common URL shortening software ===<br />
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Ha-ha! Please don't run a URL shortening service.<br />
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* [https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS YOURLS] (aka http://yourls.org )<br />
* [https://github.com/cydrobolt/polr Polr] (aka https://polrproject.org/ )<br />
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<div>The '''Deathwatch''' or '''Watchlist''' is a central indicator of websites and networks that are shutting down and serves as an indicator of what happened to particular sites that shut down quickly.<br />
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New sites should be added in chronological order, newest death date first. Forward-looking death dates should be added to the first list only. Sites large enough to warrant additional information will receive a dedicated page, linked from here and on [[:Category:Closing projects]].<br />
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(The content of the Getting Things Done table, merged with the In Progress table, can now be found on [[Small projects]].)<br />
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== Pre-emptive Alarmbells (Likely To Die) ==<br />
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=== Sunset Happy ===<br />
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*Oath/Verizon<br />
** Archive Team officially proclaims '''[[Yahoo!]]''' the least trustable host and its arch-enemy. Prove us different, Yahooligans. Or... don't. Expect anything in [[wikipedia:List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Yahoo!]] and [[wikipedia:List_of_Yahoo!-owned_sites_and_services]] to shutdown (if it already hasn't).<br />
**Please follow the feeds! {{url|https://twitter.com/YahooVictims}} & {{url|http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/03733117766037168292/11115209096644139952}}<br />
** [[AOL]] has decided to follow in Yahoo's footsteps by mass-closing websites at an alarmingly fast rate. Be careful not to leave any important data with them!<br />
* [[Nokia]] has recently been shutting down services at an alarmingly fast rate. Back up your data, Nokia users!<br />
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=== Just When You Least Expect It ===<br />
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Archive Team keeps a list of '''[[Fire_Drill|"healthy sites"]]''' that could be fine today and not so hot tomorrow. We focus on ways to back your personal data off these sites so you don't put yourself at unnecessary risk.<br />
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=== Other endangered species and misc ideas ===<br />
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* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w Louis Rossmann's Youtube channel]. He released a video on June 30th with strong hints his channel and business were being shutdown because of reasons he was not able to state. <br />
** He runs/ran a business repairing Apple Macbook motherboards and making videos on how to do these repairs, business advice and related philosophy. <br />
** These repairs are considered "unauthorized" by Apple and could the driving force behind the shutdown. <br />
** There are approximately 700 educational videos on his channel that should be archived, please see the [[YouTube]] page on how to archive YouTube videos. <br />
** His business websites could also be at risk https://www.rossmanngroup.com/ & https://mailin.repair/ & https://www.rossmanngroup.com/boards/<br />
* BitTorrent DHT - indexed by various projects who tend to get shut down sooner or later:<br />
** [https://btdb.to BTDB] - has had domain seized in the past, [http://btdb.to/about uses gmail for DMCA notices], no other contact info<br />
** [https://btdig.com/ BTDigg] - has had multiple domains seized in the past and died before. Twitter and Facebook is inactive. Contact page doesn't work, but allegedly uses email form<br />
** [https://torrentproject.se/ Torrent Project] - maybe dead, see [[Deathwatch#2017]] for more information<br />
** [https://itorrents.org iTorrents.org] - torrent cache, run by the operator of limetorrents.cc (see whois for contact information)<br />
* [[Reddit]] - has banned several subreddits including r/FatPeopleHate, r/incels and r/maleforeveralone, which had tens of thousands of subscribers each. Other subreddits including r/Braincels, r/foreveralone, r/TheRedPill and r/MGTOW are endangered. Discussions and [https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/308/200/042/?TAP=1007&cid=causes_petition_postinfo petitions] about banning those subreddits are currently taking place.<ref>{{URL|https://babe.net/2018/03/07/incel-40474}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/83irsc/why_isnt_rbraincels_banned_yet/}}</ref><br />
* We have even more small tidbits of information at [[Deathwatch/Misc]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
<br />
Websites (notable or ones with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[BlackBerry World]] will shut down.<br />
* April: [[Google+]] for consumers will shut down.<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 30: goo.gl, Google's URL shortening service will be frozen.<ref>{{URL|https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html}}</ref><br />
* February 5: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures will be deleted.<ref>{{url|https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/18051950/flickr-1000-photo-limit-free-accounts-changes-pro-subscription-smugmug}}</ref><br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] will shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] will remove all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 17: [[Tumblr]] will nuke all adult content.<ref>{{URL|https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Sensitive-content}}</ref><br />
* <s>November/December: [[Free Music Archive]] to close.<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref></s> (Update December 2018: remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.)<br />
* October/November 2018: Donny Long and PornWikiLeaks are attempting to have [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] shut down.<br />
* Date unknown: [https://blogs.harvard.edu/ Harvard's web blog service] is removing blogs by people not currently at Harvard.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/blog/2018/07/13/upcoming-changes/}}</ref><br />
* November 5: [https://botbot.me/ BotBot.me], an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: Large Manosphere blog [[Return of Kings]] with 5,800 articles and an active comments section is [http://www.returnofkings.com/195790/return-of-kings-is-going-on-hiatus going on hiatus].<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* September 14: [https://www.racked.com/ Racked] ceased publication but will continue serving the archives for now.<ref>{{URL|https://www.racked.com/2018/9/14/17661866/racked-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
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=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year<br />
* [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, will only serve static files. Probably preparing for closure.<br />
* [https://torrentproject.se Torrent Project] - displays an error 403 page, but the server is still active and serving [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ the .onion domain]. Can be contacted via email (see https://web.archive.org/web/20170705071813/https://torrentproject.se/feedback). Has valuable metadata they've collected about torrents such as mediainfo, and also has a very large database (103m) of them.<br />
* [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] - closing November 30, only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* Date unknown: [http://sasCommunity.org sasCommunity.org] published an announcement December 7, 2017 that the site would be decommissioned; on March 13, 2018, the site was converted into read-only mode<br />
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=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: Pirate Bay image hosting site "Bayimg" returns after it shutdown in the raid. However, staff announced that the site would only be up for a week. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bays-image-hosting-site-bayimg-returns-for-a-bit-160425/}}</ref> <br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data is hosted on the site and is at risk of being deleted.<br />
* June 27: Music News Nashville is ceasing publication. "All of our archives will remain online for at least one more year." <ref>{{url|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/}}</ref><br />
* March 21: Futanariobsession, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, is closing its doors. <ref>{{url|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref><br />
* January 1: AutoHotKey's older, IPBoards based forum has been made read-only, in favor of their new forums. Users were migrated but forum posts were not. <ref>{{url|https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/149716-ip-boards-decommission/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://ahkscript.org/foundation/history.html}}</ref><br />
* lots of older [[nin.com]] sub-domains (e.g. remix.nin.com, forum.nin.com) are dying; DNS has already been repointed but the old hosts are still on at the time of writing<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref><br />
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=== 2015 ===<br />
* Date Unknown: [[Picasa]] content will increasingly be killed as [[wikipedia:Google Photos|Google Photos]] was launched on 2015-05-28 and will need users.<br />
* Date Unknown: AOL apparently has plans to kill a bunch of sites, including with [[Joystiq]], [[MyDaily]], and [[ParentDish]].<ref>{{url|http://recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* Date Unknown: Bad Juju Games has filed for bankruptcy, which might mean an end to [[Desura]] and [[Indie Royale]], which hosts a large amount of games not hosted anywhere else (some of which is free), as well as forums and various user-generated content. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
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== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* August 1: [http://tindeck.com/ Tindeck] permanently ceased operations on August 1st, 2018, in response to the EU considering changes to Article 13 of the European Union Copyright Directive.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* July 18: [[Looksmax.net]], a red pill and self-improvement forum, has been shut down because the owner's wife demanded him to shut it down after the owner was doxed.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements guideline.gov, the US government's Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality's National Guidelines Clearinghouse, went dark.] It was a government database that one researcher said "was our go-to source, and there is nothing else like it in the world"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. ArchiveTeam archived the whole site in June 2018. It was added to [[ArchiveBot]] again in July to make sure that everything's covered: {{Job|1faxz160pkjk4yhndfizglop6}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com Pick-Up-Artist-Forum.com], with one million posts and 170,000 members, was shut down. "Sorry, this forum is no longer active. The posts/threads you see will remain available to read, however new registrations, posts, threads and any type of update will no longer be allowed. Thanks!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 1: [[Mapzen]] announced on 2 January 2018 that it "will cease operations at the end of January 2018. Our hosted APIs and all related support and services will turn off on February 1, 2018. You will not be charged for API usage in December/January.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources are present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 8: [[Miiverse]], Nintendo's social network which had a client in the 3DS and WiiU consoles and was also for the most part accessible over a PC web browser, was shut down. While incomplete, a good chunk of the content was unofficially backed up onto [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closes down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
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=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/ gets turned off.<br />
* Date unknown: According to akz, self-identified in #archivebot as a moderator of the site, [[Captain Luffy Forums]] will be closing when the hosting expires, as the owner has chosen not to renew it. It finally did so sometime after August 10th.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|http://What.cd/|What.cd}} suddenly shuts down. One of, if not, the largest BitTorrent Music Trackers on the internet. "Due to some recent events, What.CD is shutting down. We are not likely to return any time soon in our current form. All site and user data has been destroyed. So long, and thanks for all the fish."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ends web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shuts down after it is acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware is shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26, and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* October 23: Allmyvideos.net removed all videos and shut down their website for Good. They claimed that this is because their site is no longer profitable enough to run and maintain the website.<br />
* September: Questhub.io is a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} will shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar will shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: Yahoo has announced that is discontinuing support for all legacy versions of Yahoo messenger and on August 5th the servers will be shut down for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, shareware and other software payment processor that started in 1994, shut down with no notice, claiming: "For the past ten years Kagi has been struggling to recover from financial losses due to a supplier fraud situation. We have reduced the debt but the recovery has failed and forced us to close."<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* July 20: Kickasstorrents has been seized and the tor domain is offline as well. Fortunately, Proxies exist that have some of the data cached, but it's only a matter of time before the cache gets deleted or the proxies stop working. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, is shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk] Danish blog site (subproject of Arto).<br />
* May 13: Beatport "will be shutting down the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section."<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store are shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* February 9: Gametrailers officially closed, though the site is still up.<br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] is shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate is shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* July 24: Surfersparadise closes down most of its websites and content, including the Miss Surfersparadise illustration contest, after making an announcement just 11 days prior. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* June 13: Hungarian image hosting service [[keptarad.hu]] goes down with nearly 80,000 (or, according to inner source, 1.6 million) pictures, one week after it was scheduled to.<br />
* June 9: [[Pomf.se]] staff decided to go down with 1.6 million files (and thousands of pastes). Fortunately, they contacted ArchiveTeam and let them get a copy. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* January: Image hosting site Majhost quietly disappeared. Curiously, as of 2017, its whois registration is still renewed regularly. Its LEGO-related counterpart, Brickshelf, remains active.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: Gnome (Gnome Platform, formerly Interclick) and Right Media Exchange (Right Media Inc) is shutdown by Yahoo!.<ref>{{url|http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-shuts-down-right-media-exchange-2015-1}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://adexchanger.com/online-advertising/yahoo-retires-genome-and-right-media-brands-simplifies-around-yahoo-ad-exchange/}}</ref><ref><nowiki>http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/72591025021/introducing-the-new-yahoo-advertising</nowiki> ([https://archive.is/eGAIq archive.today] copy) (direct link blocked by wiki spamfilter)</ref><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* ??? '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
<br />
===2013===<br />
<br />
* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} is no more. The company that bought the website in 2004, Global Gaming League, decided to "move on" after basically running the website into the ground.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* November 18 (and back through 2012): Disney nuked a bunch of online games: Pixie Hollow Online, Cars Online, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Toontown Online. The futures of the large fan forums and an extremely completist wiki are doubtful. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} The Pixie Hollow fan forum specifically announced that they will not be archived, and the Cars Online forum seems to have a similar warning, while the other forums for the shut down games will apparently be migrated into this: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' promises lifetime control of your data and return of your data to loved ones for just $300 for "lifetime", or $30/year. Archive Team says to just say '''No'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* October 21: [[isoHunt]] was always going to shut down after an MPAA settlement. However, it did so earlier than expected to prevent archival efforts, claiming that 95% of torrents were available elsewhere. No mention of the metadata though.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* June 28: Nintendo shuts down all of its WiiConnect24 services, except for the Mii Channel, Wii Shop Channel, Mario Kart Wii Channel, and the Wii Speak Channel.<br />
* June 4: '''Adrenaline Vault''', a video game review site, has this posted on their Facebook profile: "Over the past weekend hackers hit the site with a DoS attack. Everything had been wiped and with no backups, everything was lost. It has been decided that Avault will remain closed. Rest in Peace, Avault."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', an anonymous file upload site, has announced that they are about $2500 in the hole on hosting costs, and that there is possibility of their shutting down if donations do not improve. It stands to reason that there are some files among their database that are worth saving. An attempt to contact the administrator for more information and to be given a dump of the site was made, and he responded saying he'd be happy to rsync a copy of the data after some legal issues have been settled.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 20: '''Microsoft Collection Book''', a site dedicated to collecting information about Windows betas, shuts down due to a C&D from Microsoft. It reopened on May 5 as '''The Collection Book'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' and '''all sites under opensolaris.org''', including the site hosting the OpenSolaris source code, were decommissioned by Oracle. OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris and originally created by Sun Microsystems. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, Oracle decided to discontinue open development of the core software, and replaced the OpenSolaris distribution model with the proprietary Solaris Express.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', a major video chat service, shut down. Users were emailed and given the ability to download any recorded videos for 3 weeks in advance of the closing date.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', a Polish video game news portal, was closed in May, and later wiped entirely on October 29. The articles have been retained at the publisher's other video game portal, Polygamia.pl, but the article comments and the forums are gone (It also had user blogs, but they seemed to have been erased much earlier.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, a central distributor of FOSS commit messages to IRC channels, got its database deleted by its web host. There were no backups. It had been running for a decade (although it had changed maintainership a year before).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''', a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} by August 17. All of the images themselves (but not the comments) were available to download via torrents, though it is unknown if the torrents are still available. Currently the most popular/upvoted images are available via another imageboard, Derpibooru, but their copy is incomplete.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} to be closing on July 30, 2012. While the service has only been around for ~2 years it represents a unique look at services for Linked Data, and contains a variety of datasets. Kasabi has a {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* July 1: The Polish social network '''[[wikipedia:Grono.net]]''' has disappeared, replaced by a file hosting service '''grono.net.pl''' on July 1, 2012. Most content from the old site was supposed to be migrated, but, according to a message on the main page, technical difficulties have delayed the migration by one or two weeks. It's getting increasingly late...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* February: Hungarian free hosting provider {{url|1=http://eplanet.hu|2=Eplanet}} stops free service as of February 2012; unknown number of pages disappeared and probably deleted.<br />
* January 19: The popular file hosting service '''Megaupload''' has been shut down in January 2012; with it, '''Megavideo''' too is gone. It was mainly used for copyright infringement, but lots of perfectly regular files were hosted on it.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> and many great/experimental one of a kind tools vanished. Among many others "google sets" that had been around since a long time, "City Tours" some includeing user generated content and the exciting "google squared" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> that was an approach to pass more artificial intelligence to the user than conventional searchengines (compareable to wolframalpha) but seemingly based on a bigger/vast pool of data just like standard google searchresults). Since there is hardly any obvious rationale(?) for closeing down "Google Labs" it pictures google as being either less supportive or even hostile to new inoventions and less responsible with usergenerated content or more secretive about their ongoing projects than one might thought before or than Google might was before indeed. 1 Jan 2011 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' closed on May 3, 2011 and deleted everything on May 31, 2011. Users who heard about the closure were given the options of either transferring their photos and videos over to dotPhoto.com or purchasing a DVD with their content for $15.00.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* April 16: '''[[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]''' shutdown on 16. April 2011 without warning. Ongoing reconstruction Efforts. A lot of Images and Articles are probably lost. (The replacement OhInternet is a very strongly sanitized Version of ED.) <s>ED is claiming that they are in danger of shutting down. Despite the controversial nature of many articles hosted on the wiki, this would be a big loss of historical records.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* March 16: '''Microsoft''' closed '''Windows Live Spaces''' on March 16, 2011. Spaces owners had the option to migrate their blogs to '''WordPress''' or to make copies. As of January 4, 2011, they could no longer edit their existing Spaces.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* February 22: The [[Insurgency Wiki]] is a wiki with a community that created multiple guides and raids for Anonymous, in a similar manner to [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]. It's status has always been unclear, with many mirrors coming and going. But as of Feb. 22, 2012, the last mirror, Partyvan.info, looks like it has some damning database error. Just in case, the Bibliotheca Anonoma has made a full backup, including all available images available.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* January: The wiki hosting site '''wik.is''', hosted by MindTouch, shut down on the first week of January 2011; the explanation being that "in order to continue to support the growing needs of our MindTouch Express users, we are offering MindTouch Cloud", which "opens up additional features and functionality that are not available in Wik.is.". The only way you'd know all that is if you receive a warning e-mail from MindTouch. They offer to keep your site running by "upgrading to our paid Cloud version by {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' was a small social network started as a side venture by CareerBuilder.com in August 2009. It was quietly shutdown November 2010 without much fanfare. At its height it has 100k users.<br />
* October 31: '''isweb lite''', the Japanese GeoCities, shut down on October 31. Thousands of personal homepages of artists and illustrators were deleted forever. A tiny sample of the pages deleted: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* Mid-2010: '''[[JuniorNet]]''', a subscription based online portal for children, was quietly shut down nearly a decade after it dot-bombed and was acquired by former employees.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', once a popular Finnish web site associated with electronic dance music, clubbing/raving, and the other related things was closed in March after been running for years. All the content posted to the forums of the site was, however, obtained and made available by {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* December 6: '''favrd''', a website that aggregated favorite tweets from twitter, abruptly shut down on December 6, 2009 with absolutely no warning, killing off thousands of highlighted entries added by group-consensus over significant months. As a reward for their efforts, founder Dean Allen wrote this helpful message: ''"Alas, stars on Twitter have become mere take-out menus hung on the doors of other restaurants. There are still lots of clever and funny things to read every day, but finding these is no longer a challenge â you already follow your sources. Sites like this one now serve mainly as fuel for emotional up-fuckedness in the guise of a game. Just an idea: next time you see something you like, write the person who made it a note telling them so. Even better, explain why. Take care!"'' Advice to people who want to work with Dean Allen's projects in the future: don't.<br />
* November: '''here.is''' seems to permanently off-line. It ceased to re-direct email for some time ago and as per 11-23-09 it doesn't redirect even URLs any longer.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* October 31: '''Microsoft Encarta''', the online encyclopedia with a 15+ year history, is being shut down. The US version will shut down on October 31, 2009 and the Japanese version on December 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* August 30ish: '''ArchNacho's & TortillaGodzilla's Quality ROMs''', a site that hosted ROMs for NES, SNES, and Genesis games, which has announced its effective death back in January 2006, is now finally completely inaccessible, both on its original domain {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. The Wayback Machine contains a mirror of the site up through August 30, 2007, which is after all updates to the site ceased. All ROMs hosted on QualityRoms are included in the mirror and can be downloaded from there.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> that they are closing up shop on July 13, 2009. Of course, you can still register an account but that's the first thing you're told.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} on June 25, 2009 that they were "simplifying" things and deleting all user-generated photos and videos uploaded by users. They gave everyone '''five days''' to get their photos off, and then extended it to ''twenty days'' from the ensuing hue and cry. The uploaded videos had no way to extract them back.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' became the latest example of Yahoo!'s awesome respect for history and data, announcing the closure of the video hosting and editing site, for June 15, 2009. A software utility has been released to allow you to download the movies from Jumpcut. Otherwise, you are not in great shape - Yahoo says you can move your videos to Flickr, but Flickr cuts off at 90 seconds. A lot of homemade video is going to disappear.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* April 20: '''{{url|1=http://www.coghead.com|2=Coghead}}''', " a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications and a software as a platform 'utility computing' company", announced it had closed up on February 20, 2009, and that the site would go down permanently on April 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|1=http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=349}}</ref>. It did.<br />
* April 17: '''{{url|1=http://furl.net/|2=Furl}}''' was a social bookmarking service that had been around since 2004. It was acquired by Diigo (announced on March 9), allowed people to opt into transferring their bookmarks to Diigo, and shut down on April 17.<ref>blog.diigo.com/2009/03/16/welcome-furl-users/ (link blocked by spam filter)</ref><ref>{{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/09/diigo-buys-web-page-clipping-service-furl-away-from-looksmart/|2=Techcrunch post}}</ref><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* March 31: It doesn't get more ironic than this: '''{{url|1=https://www.upline.com/|2=Upline}}''', a HP-owned online backup service, is being shut down.<ref>{{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10173136-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5}}</ref> ''They almost immediately turned off the backup process,'' and then announced all your restorable data would go offline on March 31, roughly 30 days after announcement. Surprise!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|Yahoo Briefcase]]''', a positively ancient site run by Yahoo that provided you with 25 free megabytes of storage space for your junk, sent a mail to what were likely years-old contact addresses to tell them they had a little more than a month to get their files out, March 30, 2009. After that, the files would be deleted. What, Yahoo doesn't have a spare memory stick to store what must be the amount of files in this service for the next year?<br />
* March 25: '''Yahoo! Farechase''', an airline fare aggregation and searching site, was shut down on March 25, 2009. It had previously been its own company, founded in 1999, and purchased by Yahoo! in 2004. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "a FREE service that lets you download over 3 million songs and videos, legally and safely", pulled up stakes in the night and completely shut down on March 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> Initially, reports indicated it would shut down the website as well as the paper, but a plan was apparently in place to run a "skeleton crew" on an internet-only site, which continues to operate.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' had a combination database and backup failure, losing: "All votes, ever. All member usernames who registered later than around 12 months ago. All member rankings. Your member profile info (e.g., bio, favorite sift, etc.), if any. All activity that happened on the site yesterday, March 11." This is unlikely to kill the site, but an awful lot of data was lost.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', a "citizen journalism" site run by Getty images to allow the uploading of images by citizen journalists and the chance to be licensed to news organizations, announced they would no longer take any new imagery after February 6, 2009, and will shut down completely on March 6, 2009. Some content uploaders "may" be contacted about being absorbed into the main Getty site.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' was redirected to Last.fm. The free music it offered does not seem to have been transferred, however (the band Ancient Teknologi had several tracks available on music.download.com, but only one available on Last.fm). As of 28 February, it claimed to have 111.052 MP3s.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> We're watching to see what happens with the website (and the material, and the newspaper itself). With a 150-year history, there's a lot of backstory, and how this chronicler of history will end up, so too will many others. There is an excellent documentary about the last days of the Rocky Mountain News {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* February 23: '''Windows Live''' shut down the '''MSN Groups''' on February 23. They extended their original date from February 21st to give Group owners the weekend to prepare. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' had a catastrophic disk corruption/failure on January 31, 2009. From the message on the main site: ''"As I evaluate recovery options, I can't provide a certain timeline or prognosis as to to when or to what degree Ma.gnolia or your bookmarks will return; only that this process will take days, not hours."'' Ma.gnolia had an excellent export feature... hope you used it and did the backups they didn't!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, one of the site's heavily used social bookmarking features (somewhat like delicious for images) will remain up for a few weeks to allow users to save their stuff.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|AOL Pictures]]''' said so long on January 9, 2009. To their credit, you can still yank your stuff into other photo services until June 2009. (At least, according to their goodbye letter.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* October 27: '''Digitalrailroad.net''', a photo hosting site, gave their users a 24-hour eviction notice on October 27, 2008. They shut down 10 hours after the 24-hour notice. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: '''Flip.com''', a social network for teenage girls, shut down on December 16, 2008. Users were advised to print out their digital scrapbooks as backups. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' was shut down on December 8, 2008. A lot of people complained about this one, while others thanked the site for shutting down and wished the founder well! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' failed to provide bloggers with the traffic they so desperately desired, and the creator admitted on October 29, 2008 that his 4AM idea may not have been so brilliant. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> The amount of broken hearts and anguish over this move was amazing, and a warning sign to any family-oriented site that encourages families to join up.<br />
** Some of the more anguished fans have gotten together in various forms to recreate VMK, including {{url|1=http://game.myvmk.com/|2=MyVMK}}, {{url|1=http://www.vmkrevisited.com/|2=VMKRevisted}} (a memorial site), and {{url|1=http://www.openvmk.com/|2=OpenVMK}} (although OpenVMK shutdown due to {{url|1=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qTdpgcLUd-Hg6-FZzkVEju4x1aMlhbMNX6snlUNgnOM/|2=internal squabbles}}.)<br />
* February 14: '''[[wikipedia:Think_Secret]]''' was killed by Apple and shut down on February 14, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/12/apple-and-think.html}}</ref><br />
* July 31: '''Social.fm''' couldn't stand up to Last.fm, and died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10005554-36.html}}</ref><br />
* May 15: '''Brijit.com''', a news aggregation site, closed on May 15, 2008. It might be closed for good. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9945059-36.html}}</ref><br />
* February: '''Yahoo! Design''', a showcase of designing and information aesthetics related to the Yahoo! properties, got revised into oblivion in February, 2008 as part of a 1,000 employee layoff. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (Internet Underground Music Archive), of Santa Cruz, California, the actual first website to offer free hosting of bands including MP3 files of music offered by the bands, was mostly archived by John Gilmore before going down. At least one IUMA founder now has a copy of that archive. This ~800GB collection has been [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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* '''[[Linux Journal]]''': Announced on 1 December 2017 that it is ceasing publication.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication}}</ref> Announced on 1 January 2018 that it has been unexpectedly rescued.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-new-year-linux-journal-alive}}</ref><br />
* {{url|https://nyaa.se|'''[[nyaa]]'''}} shut down at May 2 2017 due to copyright problem, and {{url|https://nyaa.si|revival at 10 day after}}.<br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* Video host '''[[Viddler]]''' announces in an {{url|1=http://mad.ly/5ae274?pact=20251445218&fe=1|2=e-mail newsletter}} that they're shutting down free accounts on March 11, 2014. But Archive Team kicked in and began to suck up the place until the owners told us to stop. Videos won't be permanently deleted.<br />
* '''[[4chan|Chanarchive.org]]''' - A site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, running since 2006 and containing 500GBs of important material. It has shut down entirely, as the owner was banned from PayPal and has no means of paying for the site in its current state. In a {{url|1=https://boards.4chan.org/q/res/264159|2=4chan thread}}, the owner explains that backups will be made available, but there is no guarantee of who, where, and for how long.<br />
* '''[[Berlios.de]]''' <s>will {{url|1=http://www.berlios.de/|2=shut down at end of 2011}}. The site hosts thousands of open source software projects (git, svn, bzr, mailing lists, bug tracking, etc.). {{url|1=http://developer.berlios.de/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2056&group_id=2|2=Instructions for exporting a project.}} Berlios is still open and they are now</s> {{url|1=http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/german-open-source-development-site-berlios-joins-sourceforge|2=partnered with sourceforge}} to keep things running.<br />
* '''[[Citizendium]]''''s finances {{url|1=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-08/News_and_notes|2=constantly cry for money}}. Running a MediaWiki site is cheap and Sanger is not homeless, hence it's expected to survive. [[WikiTeam]] archives it on a regular basis.<br />
* '''[[Delicious]]'''<ref>{{url|http://www.delicious.com}}</ref> will be {{url|1=http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/16/delicious.php|2=shutting down soon}}. The whole team was let go yesterday - 15 December 2010. {{url|1=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/16/2220225/Yahoo-To-Close-Delicious|2=Slashdot link}}. Delicious was acquired from Yahoo! in early 2011 by AVOS however all the prior content is gone.<br />
* '''Cli.gs''', another URL shortening service, announced closure: "On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics."<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/cligs-shutting-down}}</ref> In December 2009, it was announced that the "social bookmarking" site Mister Wong has acquired cli.gs and are keeping it running.<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/mister-wong-acquires-cligs}}</ref> All aboard the [[TinyURL]] project. <br />
* '''{{url|1=https://duck.co/topic/soft-launch-of-the-new-forum|2=Duck.co}}''', the official DuckDuckGo community forums, transitioned to their {{url|1=https://dukgo.com|2=own platform}} and moved all posts over from their old Zoho forum.<br />
* '''[[Earbits]]''' bites the dust on June 16, 2014, but comes back to life on June 19th, 2014. In between, we grabbed ~130GB of images and ~130k MP3s.<br />
*'''Filefront.com''' is closing up shop <ref>{{url|http://farewell.filefront.com/}}</ref>. The site will be suspended on March 30, 2009. 1.5 Million files and 48+ TB of space gone just like that. '''UPDATE''' As of April 2, 2009, it looks like there may have been an 11th hour reprieve for Filefront. According to a message reportedly from the original founders of the service <ref>{{url|http://welcome.filefront.com/}}</ref>, the site has been re-acquired by them in order to prevent its proposed shuttering.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[Google Video]]''' threatened to remove all hosted videos with two weeks' notice in April 2011. It backed down after criticism and an archive effort by the Archive Team.<br />
* '''Home of the Underdogs''' went under on Feb 9th<ref>{{url|http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2009/02/13/rip-hotu/}}</ref>. There has been some passed along words by the site's owner, now working at an NGO, that an attempt to bring it back may happen. (She definitely has backups of the site.) A community-driven effort to revive the site is currently underway <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org}}</ref>. Backups were restored, and the remaining files (1,000+) collected from the community. As of Jan 4th 2010, HOTU is reporting that files are back online <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org/component/content/article/25133-files-online-and-import-done}}</ref><br />
* '''[[JPG Magazine]]''' announced it would shut down on January 5, 2009 <ref>{{url|http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/01/jpg_magazine_says_goodbye.html}}</ref>, but the site lives {{url|1=http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/02/an_exciting_future_for_jpg.html|2=lives on under new ownership}}. Feel free to download the {{url|http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4624703/|torrent}}<br />
* <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013. '''UPDATE''' On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.</s><br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* ({{url|http://kiwifarms.net/|Kiwi Farms}}, a notorious forum that mocks [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolcow "lolcows"], was shut down on January 20, 2017 without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later.<br />
* '''[[MobyGames]]''', the largest database of old game releases on the net, with huge amount of content found nowhere else. Was bought by [[GameFly]] in 2010 and received a new site design in September 2013, which made almost all contributors emigrate. Many site features have disappeared or became broken in the new design, and their large database of cover art and screenshots had problems loading. In December 2013, the site was bought by {{url|1=http://blueflamelabs.com/|2=Blue Flame Labs}}, who have restored the old site design and managed to draw back pretty much all the contributors. It seems that the site is going back to full health again. <br />
* '''[[WebCite]]''' &ndash; Has a habit of crying for money, threatening it will stop accepting submissions. Since October 2013, the Wayback Machine archives pages on demand, hence there's no reason to use a site like WebCite that declares self at risk. It's expected that they'll send their data to Internet Archive if they ever really have to shut down.<br />
* '''[[Word Count Journal]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wordcountjournal.com/about}}) is shutting down on June 11, 2011 '''UPDATE''' The site is fully up and running. (checked on October 21, 2011) '''UPDATE2''': Non-functional, but the website is up with this notice "Word Count Journal is no longer being supported." (checked on January 26th, 2012)<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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=== Tragic ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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=== Humorous ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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<div>The '''Deathwatch''' or '''Watchlist''' is a central indicator of websites and networks that are shutting down and serves as an indicator of what happened to particular sites that shut down quickly.<br />
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New sites should be added in chronological order, newest death date first. Forward-looking death dates should be added to the first list only. Sites large enough to warrant additional information will receive a dedicated page, linked from here and on [[:Category:Closing projects]].<br />
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(The content of the Getting Things Done table, merged with the In Progress table, can now be found on [[Small projects]].)<br />
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== Pre-emptive Alarmbells (Likely To Die) ==<br />
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=== Sunset Happy ===<br />
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* Archive Team officially proclaims '''[[Yahoo!]]''' the least trustable host and its arch-enemy. Prove us different, Yahooligans. Or... don't. Expect anything in [[wikipedia:List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Yahoo!]] and [[wikipedia:List_of_Yahoo!-owned_sites_and_services]] to shutdown (if it already hasn't).<br />
**Please follow the feeds! {{url|https://twitter.com/YahooVictims}} & {{url|http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/03733117766037168292/11115209096644139952}}<br />
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* [[Nokia]] has recently been shutting down services at an alarmingly fast rate. Back up your data, Nokia users!<br />
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* [[AOL]] has decided to follow in Yahoo's footsteps by mass-closing websites at an alarmingly fast rate. Be careful not to leave any important data with them!<br />
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=== Just When You Least Expect It ===<br />
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Archive Team keeps a list of '''[[Fire_Drill|"healthy sites"]]''' that could be fine today and not so hot tomorrow. We focus on ways to back your personal data off these sites so you don't put yourself at unnecessary risk.<br />
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=== Other endangered species and misc ideas ===<br />
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* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w Louis Rossmann's Youtube channel]. He released a video on June 30th with strong hints his channel and business were being shutdown because of reasons he was not able to state. <br />
** He runs/ran a business repairing Apple Macbook motherboards and making videos on how to do these repairs, business advice and related philosophy. <br />
** These repairs are considered "unauthorized" by Apple and could the driving force behind the shutdown. <br />
** There are approximately 700 educational videos on his channel that should be archived, please see the [[YouTube]] page on how to archive YouTube videos. <br />
** His business websites could also be at risk https://www.rossmanngroup.com/ & https://mailin.repair/ & https://www.rossmanngroup.com/boards/<br />
* BitTorrent DHT - indexed by various projects who tend to get shut down sooner or later:<br />
** [https://btdb.to BTDB] - has had domain seized in the past, [http://btdb.to/about uses gmail for DMCA notices], no other contact info<br />
** [https://btdig.com/ BTDigg] - has had multiple domains seized in the past and died before. Twitter and Facebook is inactive. Contact page doesn't work, but allegedly uses email form<br />
** [https://torrentproject.se/ Torrent Project] - maybe dead, see [[Deathwatch#2017]] for more information<br />
** [https://itorrents.org iTorrents.org] - torrent cache, run by the operator of limetorrents.cc (see whois for contact information)<br />
* [[Reddit]] - has banned several subreddits including r/FatPeopleHate, r/incels and r/maleforeveralone, which had tens of thousands of subscribers each. Other subreddits including r/Braincels, r/foreveralone, r/TheRedPill and r/MGTOW are endangered. Discussions and [https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/308/200/042/?TAP=1007&cid=causes_petition_postinfo petitions] about banning those subreddits are currently taking place.<ref>{{URL|https://babe.net/2018/03/07/incel-40474}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/83irsc/why_isnt_rbraincels_banned_yet/}}</ref><br />
* We have even more small tidbits of information at [[Deathwatch/Misc]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or ones with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* End of March: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* February 5: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures will be deleted.<ref>{{url|https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/18051950/flickr-1000-photo-limit-free-accounts-changes-pro-subscription-smugmug}}</ref><br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] will shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* November 16: [[Free Music Archive]] to close.<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref><br />
* October/November 2018: Donny Long and PornWikiLeaks are attempting to have [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] shut down.<br />
* Date unknown: Large Manosphere blog [[Return of Kings]] with 5,800 articles and an active comments section is [http://www.returnofkings.com/195790/return-of-kings-is-going-on-hiatus shutting down].<br />
* Date unknown: [https://blogs.harvard.edu/ Harvard's web blog service] is removing blogs by people not currently at Harvard.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/blog/2018/07/13/upcoming-changes/}}</ref><br />
* Date unknown: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* November 5: [https://botbot.me/ BotBot.me], an IRC logger/log hosting service, will shut down.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] is deleting all legacy addons.<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis will close.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* September 14: [https://www.racked.com/ Racked] is ceasing publication but will continue serving the archives for now.<ref>{{URL|https://www.racked.com/2018/9/14/17661866/racked-goodbye}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year<br />
* [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, will only serve static files. Probably preparing for closure.<br />
* [https://torrentproject.se Torrent Project] - displays an error 403 page, but the server is still active and serving [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ the .onion domain]. Can be contacted via email (see https://web.archive.org/web/20170705071813/https://torrentproject.se/feedback). Has valuable metadata they've collected about torrents such as mediainfo, and also has a very large database (103m) of them.<br />
* [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] - closing November 30, only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* Date unknown: [http://sasCommunity.org sasCommunity.org] published an announcement December 7, 2017 that the site would be decommissioned; on March 13, 2018, the site was converted into read-only mode<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: Pirate Bay image hosting site "Bayimg" returns after it shutdown in the raid. However, staff announced that the site would only be up for a week. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bays-image-hosting-site-bayimg-returns-for-a-bit-160425/}}</ref> <br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data is hosted on the site and is at risk of being deleted.<br />
* June 27: Music News Nashville is ceasing publication. "All of our archives will remain online for at least one more year." <ref>{{url|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/}}</ref><br />
* March 21: Futanariobsession, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, is closing its doors. <ref>{{url|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref><br />
* January 1: AutoHotKey's older, IPBoards based forum has been made read-only, in favor of their new forums. Users were migrated but forum posts were not. <ref>{{url|https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/149716-ip-boards-decommission/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://ahkscript.org/foundation/history.html}}</ref><br />
* lots of older [[nin.com]] sub-domains (e.g. remix.nin.com, forum.nin.com) are dying; DNS has already been repointed but the old hosts are still on at the time of writing<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2015 ===<br />
* Date Unknown: [[Picasa]] content will increasingly be killed as [[wikipedia:Google Photos|Google Photos]] was launched on 2015-05-28 and will need users.<br />
* Date Unknown: AOL apparently has plans to kill a bunch of sites, including with [[Joystiq]], [[MyDaily]], and [[ParentDish]].<ref>{{url|http://recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* Date Unknown: Bad Juju Games has filed for bankruptcy, which might mean an end to [[Desura]] and [[Indie Royale]], which hosts a large amount of games not hosted anywhere else (some of which is free), as well as forums and various user-generated content. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
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== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* August 1: [http://tindeck.com/ Tindeck] permanently ceased operations on August 1st, 2018, in response to the EU considering changes to Article 13 of the European Union Copyright Directive.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* July 18: [[Looksmax.net]], a red pill and self-improvement forum, has been shut down because the owner's wife demanded him to shut it down after the owner was doxed.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements guideline.gov, the US government's Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality's National Guidelines Clearinghouse, went dark.] It was a government database that one researcher said "was our go-to source, and there is nothing else like it in the world"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. ArchiveTeam archived the whole site in June 2018. It was added to [[ArchiveBot]] again in July to make sure that everything's covered: {{Job|1faxz160pkjk4yhndfizglop6}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com Pick-Up-Artist-Forum.com], with one million posts and 170,000 members, was shut down. "Sorry, this forum is no longer active. The posts/threads you see will remain available to read, however new registrations, posts, threads and any type of update will no longer be allowed. Thanks!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 1: [[Mapzen]] announced on 2 January 2018 that it "will cease operations at the end of January 2018. Our hosted APIs and all related support and services will turn off on February 1, 2018. You will not be charged for API usage in December/January.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources are present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 8: [[Miiverse]], Nintendo's social network which had a client in the 3DS and WiiU consoles and was also for the most part accessible over a PC web browser, was shut down. While incomplete, a good chunk of the content was unofficially backed up onto [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closes down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/ gets turned off.<br />
* Date unknown: According to akz, self-identified in #archivebot as a moderator of the site, [[Captain Luffy Forums]] will be closing when the hosting expires, as the owner has chosen not to renew it. It finally did so sometime after August 10th.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|http://What.cd/|What.cd}} suddenly shuts down. One of, if not, the largest BitTorrent Music Trackers on the internet. "Due to some recent events, What.CD is shutting down. We are not likely to return any time soon in our current form. All site and user data has been destroyed. So long, and thanks for all the fish."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ends web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shuts down after it is acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware is shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26, and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* October 23: Allmyvideos.net removed all videos and shut down their website for Good. They claimed that this is because their site is no longer profitable enough to run and maintain the website.<br />
* September: Questhub.io is a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} will shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar will shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: Yahoo has announced that is discontinuing support for all legacy versions of Yahoo messenger and on August 5th the servers will be shut down for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, shareware and other software payment processor that started in 1994, shut down with no notice, claiming: "For the past ten years Kagi has been struggling to recover from financial losses due to a supplier fraud situation. We have reduced the debt but the recovery has failed and forced us to close."<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* July 20: Kickasstorrents has been seized and the tor domain is offline as well. Fortunately, Proxies exist that have some of the data cached, but it's only a matter of time before the cache gets deleted or the proxies stop working. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, is shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk] Danish blog site (subproject of Arto).<br />
* May 13: Beatport "will be shutting down the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section."<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store are shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* February 9: Gametrailers officially closed, though the site is still up.<br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] is shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate is shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* July 24: Surfersparadise closes down most of its websites and content, including the Miss Surfersparadise illustration contest, after making an announcement just 11 days prior. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* June 13: Hungarian image hosting service [[keptarad.hu]] goes down with nearly 80,000 (or, according to inner source, 1.6 million) pictures, one week after it was scheduled to.<br />
* June 9: [[Pomf.se]] staff decided to go down with 1.6 million files (and thousands of pastes). Fortunately, they contacted ArchiveTeam and let them get a copy. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* January: Image hosting site Majhost quietly disappeared. Curiously, as of 2017, its whois registration is still renewed regularly. Its LEGO-related counterpart, Brickshelf, remains active.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: Gnome (Gnome Platform, formerly Interclick) and Right Media Exchange (Right Media Inc) is shutdown by Yahoo!.<ref>{{url|http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-shuts-down-right-media-exchange-2015-1}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://adexchanger.com/online-advertising/yahoo-retires-genome-and-right-media-brands-simplifies-around-yahoo-ad-exchange/}}</ref><ref><nowiki>http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/72591025021/introducing-the-new-yahoo-advertising</nowiki> ([https://archive.is/eGAIq archive.today] copy) (direct link blocked by wiki spamfilter)</ref><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* ??? '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
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===2013===<br />
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* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} is no more. The company that bought the website in 2004, Global Gaming League, decided to "move on" after basically running the website into the ground.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* November 18 (and back through 2012): Disney nuked a bunch of online games: Pixie Hollow Online, Cars Online, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Toontown Online. The futures of the large fan forums and an extremely completist wiki are doubtful. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} The Pixie Hollow fan forum specifically announced that they will not be archived, and the Cars Online forum seems to have a similar warning, while the other forums for the shut down games will apparently be migrated into this: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' promises lifetime control of your data and return of your data to loved ones for just $300 for "lifetime", or $30/year. Archive Team says to just say '''No'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* October 21: [[isoHunt]] was always going to shut down after an MPAA settlement. However, it did so earlier than expected to prevent archival efforts, claiming that 95% of torrents were available elsewhere. No mention of the metadata though.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* June 28: Nintendo shuts down all of its WiiConnect24 services, except for the Mii Channel, Wii Shop Channel, Mario Kart Wii Channel, and the Wii Speak Channel.<br />
* June 4: '''Adrenaline Vault''', a video game review site, has this posted on their Facebook profile: "Over the past weekend hackers hit the site with a DoS attack. Everything had been wiped and with no backups, everything was lost. It has been decided that Avault will remain closed. Rest in Peace, Avault."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', an anonymous file upload site, has announced that they are about $2500 in the hole on hosting costs, and that there is possibility of their shutting down if donations do not improve. It stands to reason that there are some files among their database that are worth saving. An attempt to contact the administrator for more information and to be given a dump of the site was made, and he responded saying he'd be happy to rsync a copy of the data after some legal issues have been settled.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 20: '''Microsoft Collection Book''', a site dedicated to collecting information about Windows betas, shuts down due to a C&D from Microsoft. It reopened on May 5 as '''The Collection Book'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' and '''all sites under opensolaris.org''', including the site hosting the OpenSolaris source code, were decommissioned by Oracle. OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris and originally created by Sun Microsystems. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, Oracle decided to discontinue open development of the core software, and replaced the OpenSolaris distribution model with the proprietary Solaris Express.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', a major video chat service, shut down. Users were emailed and given the ability to download any recorded videos for 3 weeks in advance of the closing date.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', a Polish video game news portal, was closed in May, and later wiped entirely on October 29. The articles have been retained at the publisher's other video game portal, Polygamia.pl, but the article comments and the forums are gone (It also had user blogs, but they seemed to have been erased much earlier.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, a central distributor of FOSS commit messages to IRC channels, got its database deleted by its web host. There were no backups. It had been running for a decade (although it had changed maintainership a year before).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''', a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} by August 17. All of the images themselves (but not the comments) were available to download via torrents, though it is unknown if the torrents are still available. Currently the most popular/upvoted images are available via another imageboard, Derpibooru, but their copy is incomplete.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} to be closing on July 30, 2012. While the service has only been around for ~2 years it represents a unique look at services for Linked Data, and contains a variety of datasets. Kasabi has a {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* July 1: The Polish social network '''[[wikipedia:Grono.net]]''' has disappeared, replaced by a file hosting service '''grono.net.pl''' on July 1, 2012. Most content from the old site was supposed to be migrated, but, according to a message on the main page, technical difficulties have delayed the migration by one or two weeks. It's getting increasingly late...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* February: Hungarian free hosting provider {{url|1=http://eplanet.hu|2=Eplanet}} stops free service as of February 2012; unknown number of pages disappeared and probably deleted.<br />
* January 19: The popular file hosting service '''Megaupload''' has been shut down in January 2012; with it, '''Megavideo''' too is gone. It was mainly used for copyright infringement, but lots of perfectly regular files were hosted on it.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> and many great/experimental one of a kind tools vanished. Among many others "google sets" that had been around since a long time, "City Tours" some includeing user generated content and the exciting "google squared" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> that was an approach to pass more artificial intelligence to the user than conventional searchengines (compareable to wolframalpha) but seemingly based on a bigger/vast pool of data just like standard google searchresults). Since there is hardly any obvious rationale(?) for closeing down "Google Labs" it pictures google as being either less supportive or even hostile to new inoventions and less responsible with usergenerated content or more secretive about their ongoing projects than one might thought before or than Google might was before indeed. 1 Jan 2011 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' closed on May 3, 2011 and deleted everything on May 31, 2011. Users who heard about the closure were given the options of either transferring their photos and videos over to dotPhoto.com or purchasing a DVD with their content for $15.00.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* April 16: '''[[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]''' shutdown on 16. April 2011 without warning. Ongoing reconstruction Efforts. A lot of Images and Articles are probably lost. (The replacement OhInternet is a very strongly sanitized Version of ED.) <s>ED is claiming that they are in danger of shutting down. Despite the controversial nature of many articles hosted on the wiki, this would be a big loss of historical records.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* March 16: '''Microsoft''' closed '''Windows Live Spaces''' on March 16, 2011. Spaces owners had the option to migrate their blogs to '''WordPress''' or to make copies. As of January 4, 2011, they could no longer edit their existing Spaces.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* February 22: The [[Insurgency Wiki]] is a wiki with a community that created multiple guides and raids for Anonymous, in a similar manner to [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]. It's status has always been unclear, with many mirrors coming and going. But as of Feb. 22, 2012, the last mirror, Partyvan.info, looks like it has some damning database error. Just in case, the Bibliotheca Anonoma has made a full backup, including all available images available.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* January: The wiki hosting site '''wik.is''', hosted by MindTouch, shut down on the first week of January 2011; the explanation being that "in order to continue to support the growing needs of our MindTouch Express users, we are offering MindTouch Cloud", which "opens up additional features and functionality that are not available in Wik.is.". The only way you'd know all that is if you receive a warning e-mail from MindTouch. They offer to keep your site running by "upgrading to our paid Cloud version by {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' was a small social network started as a side venture by CareerBuilder.com in August 2009. It was quietly shutdown November 2010 without much fanfare. At its height it has 100k users.<br />
* October 31: '''isweb lite''', the Japanese GeoCities, shut down on October 31. Thousands of personal homepages of artists and illustrators were deleted forever. A tiny sample of the pages deleted: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* Mid-2010: '''[[JuniorNet]]''', a subscription based online portal for children, was quietly shut down nearly a decade after it dot-bombed and was acquired by former employees.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', once a popular Finnish web site associated with electronic dance music, clubbing/raving, and the other related things was closed in March after been running for years. All the content posted to the forums of the site was, however, obtained and made available by {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
<br />
===2009===<br />
<br />
* December 6: '''favrd''', a website that aggregated favorite tweets from twitter, abruptly shut down on December 6, 2009 with absolutely no warning, killing off thousands of highlighted entries added by group-consensus over significant months. As a reward for their efforts, founder Dean Allen wrote this helpful message: ''"Alas, stars on Twitter have become mere take-out menus hung on the doors of other restaurants. There are still lots of clever and funny things to read every day, but finding these is no longer a challenge â you already follow your sources. Sites like this one now serve mainly as fuel for emotional up-fuckedness in the guise of a game. Just an idea: next time you see something you like, write the person who made it a note telling them so. Even better, explain why. Take care!"'' Advice to people who want to work with Dean Allen's projects in the future: don't.<br />
* November: '''here.is''' seems to permanently off-line. It ceased to re-direct email for some time ago and as per 11-23-09 it doesn't redirect even URLs any longer.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* October 31: '''Microsoft Encarta''', the online encyclopedia with a 15+ year history, is being shut down. The US version will shut down on October 31, 2009 and the Japanese version on December 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* August 30ish: '''ArchNacho's & TortillaGodzilla's Quality ROMs''', a site that hosted ROMs for NES, SNES, and Genesis games, which has announced its effective death back in January 2006, is now finally completely inaccessible, both on its original domain {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. The Wayback Machine contains a mirror of the site up through August 30, 2007, which is after all updates to the site ceased. All ROMs hosted on QualityRoms are included in the mirror and can be downloaded from there.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> that they are closing up shop on July 13, 2009. Of course, you can still register an account but that's the first thing you're told.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} on June 25, 2009 that they were "simplifying" things and deleting all user-generated photos and videos uploaded by users. They gave everyone '''five days''' to get their photos off, and then extended it to ''twenty days'' from the ensuing hue and cry. The uploaded videos had no way to extract them back.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' became the latest example of Yahoo!'s awesome respect for history and data, announcing the closure of the video hosting and editing site, for June 15, 2009. A software utility has been released to allow you to download the movies from Jumpcut. Otherwise, you are not in great shape - Yahoo says you can move your videos to Flickr, but Flickr cuts off at 90 seconds. A lot of homemade video is going to disappear.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* April 20: '''{{url|1=http://www.coghead.com|2=Coghead}}''', " a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications and a software as a platform 'utility computing' company", announced it had closed up on February 20, 2009, and that the site would go down permanently on April 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|1=http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=349}}</ref>. It did.<br />
* April 17: '''{{url|1=http://furl.net/|2=Furl}}''' was a social bookmarking service that had been around since 2004. It was acquired by Diigo (announced on March 9), allowed people to opt into transferring their bookmarks to Diigo, and shut down on April 17.<ref>blog.diigo.com/2009/03/16/welcome-furl-users/ (link blocked by spam filter)</ref><ref>{{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/09/diigo-buys-web-page-clipping-service-furl-away-from-looksmart/|2=Techcrunch post}}</ref><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* March 31: It doesn't get more ironic than this: '''{{url|1=https://www.upline.com/|2=Upline}}''', a HP-owned online backup service, is being shut down.<ref>{{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10173136-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5}}</ref> ''They almost immediately turned off the backup process,'' and then announced all your restorable data would go offline on March 31, roughly 30 days after announcement. Surprise!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|Yahoo Briefcase]]''', a positively ancient site run by Yahoo that provided you with 25 free megabytes of storage space for your junk, sent a mail to what were likely years-old contact addresses to tell them they had a little more than a month to get their files out, March 30, 2009. After that, the files would be deleted. What, Yahoo doesn't have a spare memory stick to store what must be the amount of files in this service for the next year?<br />
* March 25: '''Yahoo! Farechase''', an airline fare aggregation and searching site, was shut down on March 25, 2009. It had previously been its own company, founded in 1999, and purchased by Yahoo! in 2004. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "a FREE service that lets you download over 3 million songs and videos, legally and safely", pulled up stakes in the night and completely shut down on March 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> Initially, reports indicated it would shut down the website as well as the paper, but a plan was apparently in place to run a "skeleton crew" on an internet-only site, which continues to operate.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' had a combination database and backup failure, losing: "All votes, ever. All member usernames who registered later than around 12 months ago. All member rankings. Your member profile info (e.g., bio, favorite sift, etc.), if any. All activity that happened on the site yesterday, March 11." This is unlikely to kill the site, but an awful lot of data was lost.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', a "citizen journalism" site run by Getty images to allow the uploading of images by citizen journalists and the chance to be licensed to news organizations, announced they would no longer take any new imagery after February 6, 2009, and will shut down completely on March 6, 2009. Some content uploaders "may" be contacted about being absorbed into the main Getty site.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' was redirected to Last.fm. The free music it offered does not seem to have been transferred, however (the band Ancient Teknologi had several tracks available on music.download.com, but only one available on Last.fm). As of 28 February, it claimed to have 111.052 MP3s.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> We're watching to see what happens with the website (and the material, and the newspaper itself). With a 150-year history, there's a lot of backstory, and how this chronicler of history will end up, so too will many others. There is an excellent documentary about the last days of the Rocky Mountain News {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* February 23: '''Windows Live''' shut down the '''MSN Groups''' on February 23. They extended their original date from February 21st to give Group owners the weekend to prepare. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' had a catastrophic disk corruption/failure on January 31, 2009. From the message on the main site: ''"As I evaluate recovery options, I can't provide a certain timeline or prognosis as to to when or to what degree Ma.gnolia or your bookmarks will return; only that this process will take days, not hours."'' Ma.gnolia had an excellent export feature... hope you used it and did the backups they didn't!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, one of the site's heavily used social bookmarking features (somewhat like delicious for images) will remain up for a few weeks to allow users to save their stuff.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|AOL Pictures]]''' said so long on January 9, 2009. To their credit, you can still yank your stuff into other photo services until June 2009. (At least, according to their goodbye letter.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
<br />
===2008===<br />
<br />
* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
<br />
''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
<br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* October 27: '''Digitalrailroad.net''', a photo hosting site, gave their users a 24-hour eviction notice on October 27, 2008. They shut down 10 hours after the 24-hour notice. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: '''Flip.com''', a social network for teenage girls, shut down on December 16, 2008. Users were advised to print out their digital scrapbooks as backups. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' was shut down on December 8, 2008. A lot of people complained about this one, while others thanked the site for shutting down and wished the founder well! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' failed to provide bloggers with the traffic they so desperately desired, and the creator admitted on October 29, 2008 that his 4AM idea may not have been so brilliant. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> The amount of broken hearts and anguish over this move was amazing, and a warning sign to any family-oriented site that encourages families to join up.<br />
** Some of the more anguished fans have gotten together in various forms to recreate VMK, including {{url|1=http://game.myvmk.com/|2=MyVMK}}, {{url|1=http://www.vmkrevisited.com/|2=VMKRevisted}} (a memorial site), and {{url|1=http://www.openvmk.com/|2=OpenVMK}} (although OpenVMK shutdown due to {{url|1=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qTdpgcLUd-Hg6-FZzkVEju4x1aMlhbMNX6snlUNgnOM/|2=internal squabbles}}.)<br />
* February 14: '''[[wikipedia:Think_Secret]]''' was killed by Apple and shut down on February 14, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/12/apple-and-think.html}}</ref><br />
* July 31: '''Social.fm''' couldn't stand up to Last.fm, and died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10005554-36.html}}</ref><br />
* May 15: '''Brijit.com''', a news aggregation site, closed on May 15, 2008. It might be closed for good. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9945059-36.html}}</ref><br />
* February: '''Yahoo! Design''', a showcase of designing and information aesthetics related to the Yahoo! properties, got revised into oblivion in February, 2008 as part of a 1,000 employee layoff. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
===2007===<br />
<br />
* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (Internet Underground Music Archive), of Santa Cruz, California, the actual first website to offer free hosting of bands including MP3 files of music offered by the bands, was mostly archived by John Gilmore before going down. At least one IUMA founder now has a copy of that archive. This ~800GB collection has been [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
<br />
* '''[[Linux Journal]]''': Announced on 1 December 2017 that it is ceasing publication.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication}}</ref> Announced on 1 January 2018 that it has been unexpectedly rescued.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-new-year-linux-journal-alive}}</ref><br />
* '''[[nyaa]]''' ({{url|https://nyaa.se}}) shut down at May 2 2017 due to copyright problem, and revival at 10 day after ({{url|https://nyaa.si}}).<br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* Video host '''[[Viddler]]''' announces in an {{url|1=http://mad.ly/5ae274?pact=20251445218&fe=1|2=e-mail newsletter}} that they're shutting down free accounts on March 11, 2014. But Archive Team kicked in and began to suck up the place until the owners told us to stop. Videos won't be permanently deleted.<br />
* '''[[4chan|Chanarchive.org]]''' - A site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, running since 2006 and containing 500GBs of important material. It has shut down entirely, as the owner was banned from PayPal and has no means of paying for the site in its current state. In a {{url|1=https://boards.4chan.org/q/res/264159|2=4chan thread}}, the owner explains that backups will be made available, but there is no guarantee of who, where, and for how long.<br />
* '''[[Berlios.de]]''' <s>will {{url|1=http://www.berlios.de/|2=shut down at end of 2011}}. The site hosts thousands of open source software projects (git, svn, bzr, mailing lists, bug tracking, etc.). {{url|1=http://developer.berlios.de/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2056&group_id=2|2=Instructions for exporting a project.}} Berlios is still open and they are now</s> {{url|1=http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/german-open-source-development-site-berlios-joins-sourceforge|2=partnered with sourceforge}} to keep things running.<br />
* '''[[Citizendium]]''''s finances {{url|1=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-08/News_and_notes|2=constantly cry for money}}. Running a MediaWiki site is cheap and Sanger is not homeless, hence it's expected to survive. [[WikiTeam]] archives it on a regular basis.<br />
* '''[[Delicious]]'''<ref>{{url|http://www.delicious.com}}</ref> will be {{url|1=http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/16/delicious.php|2=shutting down soon}}. The whole team was let go yesterday - 15 December 2010. {{url|1=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/16/2220225/Yahoo-To-Close-Delicious|2=Slashdot link}}. Delicious was acquired from Yahoo! in early 2011 by AVOS however all the prior content is gone.<br />
* '''Cli.gs''', another URL shortening service, announced closure: "On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics."<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/cligs-shutting-down}}</ref> In December 2009, it was announced that the "social bookmarking" site Mister Wong has acquired cli.gs and are keeping it running.<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/mister-wong-acquires-cligs}}</ref> All aboard the [[TinyURL]] project. <br />
* '''{{url|1=https://duck.co/topic/soft-launch-of-the-new-forum|2=Duck.co}}''', the official DuckDuckGo community forums, transitioned to their {{url|1=https://dukgo.com|2=own platform}} and moved all posts over from their old Zoho forum.<br />
* '''[[Earbits]]''' bites the dust on June 16, 2014, but comes back to life on June 19th, 2014. In between, we grabbed ~130GB of images and ~130k MP3s.<br />
*'''Filefront.com''' is closing up shop <ref>{{url|http://farewell.filefront.com/}}</ref>. The site will be suspended on March 30, 2009. 1.5 Million files and 48+ TB of space gone just like that. '''UPDATE''' As of April 2, 2009, it looks like there may have been an 11th hour reprieve for Filefront. According to a message reportedly from the original founders of the service <ref>{{url|http://welcome.filefront.com/}}</ref>, the site has been re-acquired by them in order to prevent its proposed shuttering.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[Google Video]]''' threatened to remove all hosted videos with two weeks' notice in April 2011. It backed down after criticism and an archive effort by the Archive Team.<br />
* '''Home of the Underdogs''' went under on Feb 9th<ref>{{url|http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2009/02/13/rip-hotu/}}</ref>. There has been some passed along words by the site's owner, now working at an NGO, that an attempt to bring it back may happen. (She definitely has backups of the site.) A community-driven effort to revive the site is currently underway <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org}}</ref>. Backups were restored, and the remaining files (1,000+) collected from the community. As of Jan 4th 2010, HOTU is reporting that files are back online <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org/component/content/article/25133-files-online-and-import-done}}</ref><br />
* '''[[JPG Magazine]]''' announced it would shut down on January 5, 2009 <ref>{{url|http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/01/jpg_magazine_says_goodbye.html}}</ref>, but the site lives {{url|1=http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/02/an_exciting_future_for_jpg.html|2=lives on under new ownership}}. Feel free to download the {{url|http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4624703/|torrent}}<br />
* <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013. '''UPDATE''' On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.</s><br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* ({{url|http://kiwifarms.net/|Kiwi Farms}}, a notorious forum that mocks [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolcow "lolcows"], was shut down on January 20, 2017 without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later.<br />
* '''[[MobyGames]]''', the largest database of old game releases on the net, with huge amount of content found nowhere else. Was bought by [[GameFly]] in 2010 and received a new site design in September 2013, which made almost all contributors emigrate. Many site features have disappeared or became broken in the new design, and their large database of cover art and screenshots had problems loading. In December 2013, the site was bought by {{url|1=http://blueflamelabs.com/|2=Blue Flame Labs}}, who have restored the old site design and managed to draw back pretty much all the contributors. It seems that the site is going back to full health again. <br />
* '''[[WebCite]]''' &ndash; Has a habit of crying for money, threatening it will stop accepting submissions. Since October 2013, the Wayback Machine archives pages on demand, hence there's no reason to use a site like WebCite that declares self at risk. It's expected that they'll send their data to Internet Archive if they ever really have to shut down.<br />
* '''[[Word Count Journal]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wordcountjournal.com/about}}) is shutting down on June 11, 2011 '''UPDATE''' The site is fully up and running. (checked on October 21, 2011) '''UPDATE2''': Non-functional, but the website is up with this notice "Word Count Journal is no longer being supported." (checked on January 26th, 2012)<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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[[Category:Archive Team]]</div>Zeronethttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Alive..._OR_ARE_THEY&diff=32890Alive... OR ARE THEY2018-12-09T19:40:41Z<p>Zeronet: </p>
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Archive Team considers these sites specifically of interest because they solicit so much content, contain so many works and projects by a wide group of people, or have the internet particularly dependent on them. Consider this a fire drill.. know what you can do to get your data off these sites and back them off for later.<br />
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* '''[[Flickr]]''' contains billions of files, hundreds millions of which are under a Creative Commons license or stored there by many museums and other cultural institutions. The site was tumblr-ised in 2013 and has been poorly functional ever since; pro users were removed, so it doesn't yet have a business model. Additionally, it's owned by Yahoo!, need to say more?!<br />
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* '''[[Academic Earth]]''' ({{url|1=http://academicearth.org/}}) has been worryingly unloved for a while, and holds a mountain of free education that's invaluable to the world.<br />
* '''[[Encyclopedia Astronautica]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.astronautix.com/}}) is the most comprehensive collection of the history of space travel. '''Period.''' Seriously, the official NASA history folks will refer you this website if they can't answer your questions. However, Mark Wade (the sole creator/maintainer) abandoned his blog at the end of 2007, and the Encyclopedia has not been updated since May 2008, despite much happening in the space exploration world since then. A [https://archive.org/details/EncyclopediaAstronautica backup] was made of the site as of 28/01/2017.<br />
* '''[[Angelfire]]''' has been in constant decline for many years now.<br />
* '''[[AnimeMusicVideos.org]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.animemusicvideos.org/}}) is fine right now, but they rely on donations and host vast amounts of user-edited music videos on their server (presumably without mirrors). Hard to download as you have to be a member to get all the download links, and after downloading a handful you have to vode before you can d/l again (or you can donate which presumably gives you 1 year of free d/l access). Also, this site might be a grey area, copyright-wise, as the videos are all cut together from copyrighted material.<br />
* '''[[BetaArchive]]''' ({{url|http://www.betaarchive.com/}}) has Kafkaesque requirements to be able to access it, and apparently refuses to be backed up, presumably so that they get more visitors. Valuable cultural library of historic software with no backups? Aargh.<br />
* '''[[BioMedia Project]]''' ({{url|1=http://biomediaproject.com/bmp/}}) is a large archive of various BIONICLE media that has not had a notable update since 2015.<br />
* '''[[Codecademy]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.codecademy.com/}}) has a large amount of valuable coding lessons.<br />
* '''[[DatasheetArchive]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.datasheetarchive.com/}}) hosts over 350 million PDF datasheets for integrated circuits, some of which are very old and hard to track down otherwise. The site is slow from time to time and uses a convoluted IFRAME-based online viewer, presumably to make scraping the site harder. Nevertheless, multiple other similar sites exist, with large parts of their PDFs non-overlapping, so that at some point, all should be saved. Similar sites include http://doc.chipfind.<!-- -->ru/ (1.6m datasheets), http://www.alldatasheet.com/ (20m datasheets), http://www.datasheets.com/ (250m datasheets), http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/, http://freedatasheets.com/ and several others<br />
* '''[[Dayviews]]''' ({{url|1=http://dayviews.com/}}), the Swedish photo diary community contains quite a bit of 00s Swedish "youth culture", but is at risk of being shutdown when you least suspect it due to its sinking user rate.<br />
* '''[[Delicious]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.delicious.com/}}) loves to change their API, which has a side effect of making it difficult to back up.<br />
* '''[[Elfwood]]''' has been home to tons of fantasy and sci-fi art and fiction since the late 90's, though since June 2016, plans for a "new Elfwood" have been put on hold, and as of Arpil 2017, the website is in an odd state where pages will return a status code of 504, while images will load just fine. It was last seen functioning normally in early December 2016.<br />
* '''[[Facebook]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.facebook.com/}}) seems stable at the moment.<br />
* '''[[FanFiction]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.fanfiction.net/}}) represents many thousands of user-generated stories, essays and huge amounts of work.<br />
* '''[[Forrst]]''' ({{url|1=http://zurb.com/forrst}}) was shut down on April 14th, 2014, but all posts were archived by Forrst.<br />
* '''[[FreewareFiles]]''' ({{url|1=http://freewarefiles.net/}}) is a treasure trove of free and open source completed softwares. It's been around for 20 years, but hasn't had its look updated in a long while.<br />
* '''[[FurAffinity]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.furaffinity.net/}})<br />
* '''[[Google]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.google.com/}}) wants you to think they will be here forever.<br />
* '''[[h2g2]]''' ({{url|1=https://www.h2g2.com}}) was (among?) the first [https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A550955 online, collaborative encyclopaedia(s)].<br />
* '''[[IFTTT]]''' ({{url|1=http://ifttt.com/}}) is still growing.<br />
* '''[[Internet Archive]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.archive.org/}}) seems stable at the moment, but its [https://archive.org/~tracey/mrtg/du.html 45 petabytes] of data (as of October 2018) aren't mirrored anywhere else. The code for their system isn't open source, and generally they're a single point of failure for a large amount of the web's history. Why should there be only 1 internet archive?<br />
** There is a second instance of the Wayback Machine at [http://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.aspx Bibliotheca Alexandrina], but it appears to have been broken since several years as of October 2018 ("The Resource you have requested is temporarily unavailable" when trying to access a snapshot as of 2018-10-03). It also hasn't been updated since 2007, i.e. all crawl data since 2008 is only available at the Internet Archive.<br />
** More discussion at [[INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK]]<br />
* '''[[Invisionfree]]''' ({{url|1=http://invisionfree.com/}}) is as far as I can tell not used by as many people nowadays as before, probably because other free forum hosts use better forum software like phpBB that has better layout and looks better. The copyright notice on [http://www.zifboards.com/ zIFBoards.com], which [http://invisionfree.com/ Invisionfree.com] redirects to, has not been updated since 2014.<br />
* '''[[JanusVR]]''' is a company that aims to re-imagine the web as "rooms" interconnected with portals. These "rooms" can be hosted anywhere. Though the company and its technology are still fairly new, there are already cases of rooms with missing assets or even entire links broken, and [[ArchiveBot]]'s ability to grab these rooms is somewhat limited.<br />
*'''[[JSFiddle]]''' ({{url|1=http://jsfiddle.net/}}) is referenced in many StackOverflow answers, as well as other forums, etc. It shows no signs of going away, but should we archive it just in case?<br />
* '''[[Kiwi Farms]]''' ({{url|http://kiwifarms.net/}}, {{url|http://kiwifar.ms/|former alternate .ms domain}}) is a notorious forum where users mock [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolcow "lolcows"], or people who have attracted ridicule because of their behavior or their beliefs. On January 20, 2017, the forum was shut down without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later.<br />
*'''[[Know Your Meme]]''' ({{url|1=http://knowyourmeme.com/}}) is at this point the de facto central repository for information on internet memes and culture. It is as popular as ever at the moment, but even with this popularity, former owners Rocketboom had trouble financing it. In the spring of 2011 was sold to Cheezburger Networks, a site which has been known to "reorganize" its properties, sometimes with a detrimental effect on content. Though it was quite a different story, I might remind people what happened to [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]].<br />
* '''[[Last.fm]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.last.fm/}}) is being cloned by free software developers in the form of [http://libre.fm Libre.fm] -- they have a tool, [http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/trunk/lastscrape/lastscrape.py?root=librefm Lastscrape] which can get all your listening data out into a tab delimited text file.<br />
* '''[[Literotica.com]]''' ({{url|1=http://literotica.com/}}) Contains over 290,000 user-written stories and poems. First pass at a backup: [http://mir.cr/12CMQUTL part1.rar], [http://mir.cr/HO79CCUO part2.rar], [http://mir.cr/TOVJWQ4E part3.rar], [http://mir.cr/1SIAB4AM part4.rar] -- contains the text of all stories as of the backup date in XML format. (One page of one story is missing because it doesn't exist on the site; embedded images and audio are not included this time; non-English stories aren't labelled with their language).<br />
* '''[[LiveJournal]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.livejournal.com/}}) fired a bunch of US-based developers, but is still serving from its new (presumably cheaper) data center in Montana.<br />
* '''[[Mapillary]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.mapillary.com/}}) project similar to Google's Street View, but with CC BY-SA photos submitted by users. Particularly worrisome since Mapillary requires purchasing licenses to download a large number of photos, making it essentially a big silo. See more at http://blog.improve-osm.org/en/2016/11/a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-mapmaking-with-osm-2/<br />
* '''[[Megalodon.jp]]''' ({{url|1=http://megalodon.jp/}}) is a Japanese archiving website. Outside of Japanese users, reddit users use it sometimes.<br />
*'''[[The Mod Archive]]''' ({{url|1=http://modarchive.org/}}) One of the largest collection of music modules.<br />
*'''[[Mod DB]]''' ({{url|1=http://moddb.com/}}) is the largest website dedicated to user generated game content, including mods (12,000) and addons (14,000) with a combined size of 4,5 TB of user-generated downloadable content.<br />
*'''[[Moegirlpedia]]''' ({{url|https://zh.moegirl.org}}) is the biggest Chinese-language encyclopedia for popular culture.<br />
*'''[[MUGEN Archive]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.mugenarchive.com/}}) Holds 1000's of user created addon content for the custom fighting game MUGEN. Much of the stuff uploaded here was thought lost forever. However, thanks to all the copyright infringing content and uploading a lot of content without the creators permission, the future of the site is questionable.<br />
*'''[[nyaa]]''' ({{url|https://nyaa.si/}}) - Biggest torrent site of Japanese popular culture.<br />
* '''[[Pastebin]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.pastebin.com/}}) is still getting filled with text.<br />
* '''[[Pixiv]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.pixiv.net/}}) and '''[[deviantArt]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.deviantart.com/}}) are the largest Japanese and American (respectively) fanart (and valuable art in general) collections on the internet. Most of works are possibly included in [https://saucenao.com/status.html many boorus]<br />
* '''[[Pouet]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.pouet.net/}}) is an important site of the demoscene. It indexes and ranks demoscene productions ('prods') and also includes a free-for-all BBS-style forum.<br />
* '''[[Reddit]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.reddit.com/}}) is a content aggregator where [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Issues_relating_to_former_Digg_website many Digg users migrated in 2010]. Attracted controversy in July 2015, with accusations of [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/amageddon censorship] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_banning shadowbanning]. Stable for now, but team is small.<br />
* '''[[SourceForge]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.sourceforge.net/}}) is a critical repository of open source code, information, and webpages. It is mirrored and maintained, but there are sure to be parts that are neither.<br />
* '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.thepiratebay.org/}}) is one of the largest and most popular torrent search engines. It's still having persistent legal problems. The tracker went down in November 2012, but the site still serves torrents and magnet links. If a torrent is lost, it becomes impossible to connect to other computers distributing the shared files. Considering that there are links to TPB ''all over this wiki'', this site is pretty dang important. After they were raided in December 2014, a project known as [http://openbay.isohunt.to/ The Open Bay] was launched, which lets anybody host a mirror of TPB with automatic database updates, so even if TPB goes down again, temporarily or not, its database is still available.<br />
* '''[[Tribe]]''' ({{url|1=http://tribe.net}}) hosts large amount of user-generated data, and has been having consistent uptime issues.<br />
* '''[[Tumblr]]''' ({{url|1=http://tumblr.com}}) is a highly popular blogging platform which was bought by [[Yahoo]]! in May, 2013. <br />
* '''[[TVTropes]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage}}) is a popular wiki dedicated to finding recurring patterns in fiction, and discussing fiction in general. No word on whether there are backups. The administrators have a tendency to delete things indiscriminately, usually to save on disk space: article edit histories are frequently purged, and old forum threads have been known to get deleted mercilessly. A [http://archive.org/details/archiveteam-tvtropes-2012-09 backup] and [https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Main_Page an alternate website] with imported content from July 2012 are available. <br />
* '''[[Twitter]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.twitter.com/}}) is tweaking away, with a dire financial situation and [http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/06/twitter-in-meltdown-as-entire-userbase-revolts/ controversial decisions].<br />
* '''[[Voat]]''' ({{url|1=https://voat.co/}}) is a content aggegator that gained a niche fanbase in June 2015 after a controversy on [[Reddit]]. A "Days Remaining" countdown appeared on the front page in February 2016 and [https://voat.co/v/whatever/comments/943274 has been confirmed] to be the number of startup credit days remaining, which were depleted in June 15, 2016. Voat relies on donations to run.<br />
* '''[[WebCite]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.webcitation.org/}}) itself seems to be having trouble with funding, and is facing "possible discontinuation." As this site serves as a stable reference for fleeting Web references, it would be pretty disastrous if it went away.<br />
* '''[[whitehouse.gov]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.whitehouse.gov/}}) is up and running for #44, <s>but we've lost all info for #43. (See also: [http://www.kottke.org/09/01/old-whitehousegov-down-the-memory-hole kottke] and [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/whitehousegov_president_web_presence.php Read Write Web].)</s> and #43 is available at http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/ thanks to the [http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/ephemera_vs_the_law/ Presidential Records Act]. We also want to watch out for site changes / disappeared pages that were embarrassing or whatnot.<br />
* '''[[Wikia]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wikia.com/}}), the for-pay arm of Wikipedia (just kidding, it's a different company, but shares a lot of people) is a repository of directed, unsubject-to-wikipolitics wikis, many of them intense and completist. It'd be bad for them to go away.<br />
* '''[[WikiLeaks]]''' ({{url|1=http://wikileaks.org/}}) contains several thousand leaked documents from sources such as the Iraq War and the cables famously known under the label 'Cablegate'. Due to the content on the website, and that PayPal and Amazon (very) quickly dropped their hosting for them during Cablegate's opening days, it should be considered a potential target for any number of government committees for quick shutdown. They have an uncertain financial situation, and the site was inaccessible for some time in 2010.<br />
* '''[[Wikipedia]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wikipedia.org/}}) will surely be here forever and ever! Fortunately, we don't have to take their word for it as they offer dumps of the data minus the photos. However no-one has verified that Wikipedia can actually be restored from these dumps. If disaster strikes then we could discover a serious problem.<br />
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== Endangered ==<br />
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* '''[http://www.ning.com/ Ning]''' in 2010 has laid off 40% of staff and seems to be running out of money [http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/15/nings-bubble-bursts-no-more-free-networks-cuts-40-of-staff/]. There is certainly some networks worth archiving among the 2 million networks[http://blog.ning.com/2010/01/2-million-ning-networks.html] they host. Grouply[http://blog.grouply.com/grouply-welcomes-ning-networks/] and Posterous[http://blog.posterous.com/posterous-commits-to-building-a-ning-blog-imp] say they are going to offer migration tools.<br />
* As of 2014, ScraperWiki Classic is now read-only. But don’t worry! You can transfer this scraper to Morph.io if you want to continue editing it.<br />
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* '''[http://debates.oireachtas.ie/ debates.oireachtas.ie]''' on September 18th, 2012 the Houses of Oireachtas website [http://www.kildarestreet.com/statement2012/ announced] that it would no longer be updating its XML data for Irish parliamentary debates (1919-2012). Access to pre-existing data is still available, but is likely to disappear, if the current trend continues. It would be useful to at least capture the XML data that is there, while it is still available. Here's a [https://archive.org/details/debatesoireachtasie-XML WARC archive] of the XML only.<br />
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* '''[[Ownlog|ownlog.com]]''' - once one of the most popular and oldest blog platform in Poland seems to be dying slowly - no development and actualizations except most critical maintenance.<br />
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* '''[http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175 Groklaw]''' will no longer be posting new articles, "due to government monitoring of the internet, particularly e-mail." Whether or not its archives will remain online is unclear, although it does seem rather unlikely it will 100% disappear. OTOH, better safe than sorry.<br />
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* '''[[Seene]]''' ({{url|1=https://seene.co/u/docpop/}}) "lets you capture and share a new kind of 3D photo that brings together image, depth and movement to create a richer, more interactive experience, all on your iPhone." Unique content, but recently acquired by SnapChat - no new product updates since 2015. Likely to shut soon, unique and cool content.<br />
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* Strawpoll.me<br />
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* '''[http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ World of Spectrum]''''s current administrator announced that [http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/52892/had-enough he's ceasing to support the website and forum within 8 weeks] (as of July 3). The future of the website is uncertain. <br />
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* The '''Centralstation Community''' [http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/_Central-Station-v2-Q38As/blog/5449967/126249.html has closed]. The site is a UK-based social network for artists and creatives that provides hosting for content and portfolio. Users are being advised to back up their work as the new version of their platform will rely on existing media hosting sites like Flickr, Vimeo, and Soundcloud.<br />
<br />
* Most of the paid staff at '''The Escapist''' [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/171005-Open-Letter-to-The-Escapist-Community has been "relieved of their duties"] as of October 20, 2017, and the future and longevity of the site is uncertain; it's currently run mostly through volunteer efforts.<br />
<br />
* [[Yelp, Inc.]] lost 30% of its advertisers and people don't seem too happy about it.<br />
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* YoyoGames, developer of the GameMaker application, is planning to retire the old "'''[[GameMaker Sandbox]]'''" game hosting website in favor of the "GameMaker: Player" service, by late October.<ref>http://gamemakerblog.com/2014/10/04/its-official-digital-store-will-replace-gamemaker-sandbox/</ref> [http://help.yoyogames.com/entries/101815476-GameMaker-Player-FAQs "Sandbox content will remain available for a period of time until the GameMaker: Player is fully live."]<br />
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* [[nokia.com]] is [http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2014/09/19/goodbye-nokia-com-microsoft-makes-new-home-devices-services-microsoft-com/ being destroyed by Microsoft]. [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/job/adktg It has been saved] by the [[ArchiveBot]].<br />
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* [[Yahoo!]] [http://www.yqlblog.net/blog/2013/11/11/y-ahoo-it-url-shortener-end-of-life-announcement/ retired] the y.ahoo.it [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] November 20th 2013 but the shortener is still active.<br />
<br />
* CtoSims Has been infected with a Javascript that redirects to different pages, and the owner seems to have not been active for a long time. The entire site now redirects to a placeholder page that says "Coming Soon!". As of December 2016, All Downloads have been taken down as well.<br />
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* [[YTMND]] - supposed to be "closing down soon" in [https://gizmodo.com/who-killed-ytmnd-1785765611 2016], but still up 2 years later.<br />
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== See Also ==<br />
* [[A Million Ways to Die on the Web]]<br />
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[[Category:Archive Team]]</div>Zeronethttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Talk:Alive..._OR_ARE_THEY&diff=32889Talk:Alive... OR ARE THEY2018-12-09T19:40:18Z<p>Zeronet: /* I am not sure if adding these is appropriate. */</p>
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<div>Has anyone attempted to restore a running copy of wikipedia from the dumps? If so do the dumps provide enough data that, in the event of a catastrophic data failure, wikipedia could be brought back up using just the backups?--[[User:Adewale|Adewale]] 08:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
* That's a very good question. The problem is that the dumps are now insanely huge. I don't know how many people would even have the capacity to unpack them. --[[User:Jscott|Jscott]] 15:45, 27 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
* This: http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/#1 suggests that DBpedia and FreeBase are attempting to maintain their own structured versions of the wikipedia dataset. Theoretically, if Amazon keeps their public dataset up to date, then it is possible to restore wikipedia from that.<br />
* Even worse, there is no real backup of the image data. According to their backup procedures[http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Backup_procedures] they only manually rsync them to another remote host sometimes. They already lost some images because of a software bug that they could not restore[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.commons/4175/focus=4178]. Maybe there is a possibility to (slowly) download all images (they provide a dump of the database table that contains all the image metadata) and safe them. As the text-only dump of wikipedia is already > 2 TB without compression, the image size must be HUGE. --[[User:Soult|Soult]] 10:57, 4 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
** Just calculated the total size: All images (without meta-data) are about 2604 GB (2.54 TB) in size (as of 24 January, 2009) without counting deleted or replaced images. --[[User:Soult|Soult]] 23:40, 9 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::All the images in [[Wikimedia Commons]] (7 millions) are about 6TB. [[User:Emijrp|Emijrp]] 23:12, 1 November 2010 (UTC)<br />
* Uh, well I know I use [http://www.yunqa.de/delphi/doku.php/products/wikitaxi/index WikiTaxi] regularly to read articles from the dumps. It works quite well. As for how easy it'd be to restore the site from the dumps rather than just read from them, I don't know. But I know the information is there and there's even tools already that read it. --[[User:Qwerty0|Qwerty0]] 19:21, 20 April 2011 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Wikimedia Commons monthly uploads ===<br />
<pre><br />
date sum(img_size)<br />
2003-1 1360188<br />
2004-10 637349207<br />
2004-11 726517177<br />
2004-12 1503501023<br />
2004-9 188850959<br />
2005-1 1952816194<br />
2005-10 17185495206<br />
2005-11 9950998969<br />
2005-12 11430418722<br />
2005-2 3118680401<br />
2005-3 3820401370<br />
2005-4 5476827971<br />
2005-5 10998180401<br />
2005-6 7160629133<br />
2005-7 9206024659<br />
2005-8 12591218859<br />
2005-9 14060418086<br />
2006-1 15433548270<br />
2006-10 33574470896<br />
2006-11 34231957288<br />
2006-12 30607951770<br />
2006-2 14952310277<br />
2006-3 19415486302<br />
2006-4 23041609453<br />
2006-5 29487911752<br />
2006-6 29856352192<br />
2006-7 32257412994<br />
2006-8 50940607926<br />
2006-9 37624697336<br />
2007-1 40654722866<br />
2007-10 89872715966<br />
2007-11 81975793043<br />
2007-12 75515001911<br />
2007-2 39452895714<br />
2007-3 53706627561<br />
2007-4 72917771224<br />
2007-5 72944518827<br />
2007-6 63504951958<br />
2007-7 76230887667<br />
2007-8 91290158697<br />
2007-9 100120203171<br />
2008-1 84582810181<br />
2008-10 122360827827<br />
2008-11 116290099578<br />
2008-12 126446332364<br />
2008-2 77416420840<br />
2008-3 89120317630<br />
2008-4 98180062150<br />
2008-5 117840970706<br />
2008-6 100352888576<br />
2008-7 128266650486<br />
2008-8 130452484462<br />
2008-9 120247362867<br />
2009-1 127226957021<br />
2009-10 345591510325<br />
2009-11 197991117397<br />
2009-12 228003186895<br />
2009-2 125819024255<br />
2009-3 273597778760<br />
2009-4 212175602700<br />
2009-5 191651496603<br />
2009-6 195998789357<br />
2009-7 241366758346<br />
2009-8 262927838267<br />
2009-9 184963508476<br />
2010-1 226919138307<br />
2010-2 191615007774<br />
2010-3 216425793739<br />
2010-4 312177184245<br />
2010-5 312240110181<br />
2010-6 283374261868<br />
2010-7 362175217639<br />
2010-8 172072631498<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
In bytes. In July 2010 were uploaded 362 GB. [[User:Emijrp|Emijrp]] 23:16, 1 November 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Add a section to the article that suggest workarounds ==<br />
<br />
Easiest (to save content) is to submit to multiple websites. My personal favorites for typical files I upload are [[Ovi Share]] (by Nokia, unlimited diskspace for quite a wide variety of files but no easy mass download), [[Scribd]], [[docstoc]], [[Slideshare]] and [[Box.net]] (from which I can download files as a zip file). --[[User:Jaakkoh|Jaakkoh]] 04:39, 4 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
Wasn't sure where to post this, but what about FriendFeed, given that they're in the process of being acquired by Facebook, and people are talking about leaving and taking their content with them/deleting accounts? <br />
[[User:TysonKey|TysonKey]] 17:49, 13 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== whitehouse.gov ==<br />
<br />
Perhaps some mention should be made that the entity which owns this owes hundreds of *trillions* of dollars with no clear plan or schedule to repay this money. As a house in a bad neighbourhood with a world-leading quantity of foreclosures, it's just a matter of time before Commie China Inc. calls in the loans and the entire house of cards collapses. --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 18:24, 13 February 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Uncyclopedia and various former Wikia ==<br />
Quite a few of the Uncyclopedia individual-language Wikipedia parodies currently are Wikia and all but two of the rest have long been downloadable on download.uncyc.org - but there are two major ones missing (because they're hosted as independents): absurdopedia.org and uncyclopedia.kr (Russian and Korean, respectively). Odds are that there are backups of both from before they were moved independent, but these will be badly out of date. No idea whether the new hosts of these have any backups available for download.<br />
<br />
The same pattern likely also holds for a long list of wikis which have left Wikia due to ad-heavy forced reskins of that site in 2008 and again in 2010. http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Moved_wikis and http://complaintwiki.org were intended as consumer-complaint sites about Wikia, but de-facto should be being read as lists of MediaWiki installations, newly independent in hosting, which may or may not have downloadable backups. <br />
<br />
Might be best to assume that, just because Wikia (or another wiki farm) left the old wiki open and abandoned since 2008, that there's anything in the Wikia backups other than outdated content and vandalism once the community has established itself independently elsewhere. Wikia's infamous for keeping old wikis open after the community leaves and Wikia staff have been seen removing links to the new wiki on numerous occasions. <br />
<br />
Annoyingly, if some automated process on the old site is generating periodic backups of old data, the timestamp will appear current when the underlying data is three years outdated. --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 18:24, 13 February 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Facebook ==<br />
<big>Is it really doing <i>'ok'</i> ? Or, could it really all come crumbling down?</big><br />
<br />
# WHAT IF IT'S <b>NOT</b> ? <br />
##It would be a monumental <i>(and likely impossible task)</i><br />
##Most likely there would be ample opportunity and time given for users to grab their own data<br />
###What about the <i>if not</i> case, and of those users who might not or could not?<br />
* [hxxp://youtu.be/aY3rokHZgd0 Facebook is Dying, New Class Action Lawsuit Takes Aim]<br />
----<br />
I think most Facebook data is user-private and cannot be grabbed. [[User:Zeronet|Zeronet]] ([[User talk:Zeronet|talk]]) 09:12, 26 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== I am not sure if adding these is appropriate. ==<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
Youku - Chinese clone of YouTube<br />
Tieba - Chinese clone of Reddit<br />
Weibo - Chinese clone of Twitter<br />
Zhihu - Chinese clone of Quora<br />
<br />
niconico - Japan video site with "danmaku" (instant commentary system)<br />
AcFun - Chinese clone of niconico<br />
bilibili - Chinese clone of AcFun<br />
<br />
Douban - Chinese equivalent of IMDb / ISBNdb, and have many other features<br />
bangumi.tv - equivalent of Douban, focus on Japanese popular culture<br />
<br />
xiami.com - music listening and downloading<br />
Neteast Music - music listening and downloading<br />
<br />
RuTracker - torrent site<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
[[User:Zeronet|Zeronet]] ([[User talk:Zeronet|talk]]) 19:33, 9 December 2018 (UTC)</div>Zeronethttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Talk:Alive..._OR_ARE_THEY&diff=32888Talk:Alive... OR ARE THEY2018-12-09T19:33:57Z<p>Zeronet: /* I am not sure if adding these is appropriate. */ new section</p>
<hr />
<div>Has anyone attempted to restore a running copy of wikipedia from the dumps? If so do the dumps provide enough data that, in the event of a catastrophic data failure, wikipedia could be brought back up using just the backups?--[[User:Adewale|Adewale]] 08:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
* That's a very good question. The problem is that the dumps are now insanely huge. I don't know how many people would even have the capacity to unpack them. --[[User:Jscott|Jscott]] 15:45, 27 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
* This: http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/#1 suggests that DBpedia and FreeBase are attempting to maintain their own structured versions of the wikipedia dataset. Theoretically, if Amazon keeps their public dataset up to date, then it is possible to restore wikipedia from that.<br />
* Even worse, there is no real backup of the image data. According to their backup procedures[http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Backup_procedures] they only manually rsync them to another remote host sometimes. They already lost some images because of a software bug that they could not restore[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.commons/4175/focus=4178]. Maybe there is a possibility to (slowly) download all images (they provide a dump of the database table that contains all the image metadata) and safe them. As the text-only dump of wikipedia is already > 2 TB without compression, the image size must be HUGE. --[[User:Soult|Soult]] 10:57, 4 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
** Just calculated the total size: All images (without meta-data) are about 2604 GB (2.54 TB) in size (as of 24 January, 2009) without counting deleted or replaced images. --[[User:Soult|Soult]] 23:40, 9 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::All the images in [[Wikimedia Commons]] (7 millions) are about 6TB. [[User:Emijrp|Emijrp]] 23:12, 1 November 2010 (UTC)<br />
* Uh, well I know I use [http://www.yunqa.de/delphi/doku.php/products/wikitaxi/index WikiTaxi] regularly to read articles from the dumps. It works quite well. As for how easy it'd be to restore the site from the dumps rather than just read from them, I don't know. But I know the information is there and there's even tools already that read it. --[[User:Qwerty0|Qwerty0]] 19:21, 20 April 2011 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Wikimedia Commons monthly uploads ===<br />
<pre><br />
date sum(img_size)<br />
2003-1 1360188<br />
2004-10 637349207<br />
2004-11 726517177<br />
2004-12 1503501023<br />
2004-9 188850959<br />
2005-1 1952816194<br />
2005-10 17185495206<br />
2005-11 9950998969<br />
2005-12 11430418722<br />
2005-2 3118680401<br />
2005-3 3820401370<br />
2005-4 5476827971<br />
2005-5 10998180401<br />
2005-6 7160629133<br />
2005-7 9206024659<br />
2005-8 12591218859<br />
2005-9 14060418086<br />
2006-1 15433548270<br />
2006-10 33574470896<br />
2006-11 34231957288<br />
2006-12 30607951770<br />
2006-2 14952310277<br />
2006-3 19415486302<br />
2006-4 23041609453<br />
2006-5 29487911752<br />
2006-6 29856352192<br />
2006-7 32257412994<br />
2006-8 50940607926<br />
2006-9 37624697336<br />
2007-1 40654722866<br />
2007-10 89872715966<br />
2007-11 81975793043<br />
2007-12 75515001911<br />
2007-2 39452895714<br />
2007-3 53706627561<br />
2007-4 72917771224<br />
2007-5 72944518827<br />
2007-6 63504951958<br />
2007-7 76230887667<br />
2007-8 91290158697<br />
2007-9 100120203171<br />
2008-1 84582810181<br />
2008-10 122360827827<br />
2008-11 116290099578<br />
2008-12 126446332364<br />
2008-2 77416420840<br />
2008-3 89120317630<br />
2008-4 98180062150<br />
2008-5 117840970706<br />
2008-6 100352888576<br />
2008-7 128266650486<br />
2008-8 130452484462<br />
2008-9 120247362867<br />
2009-1 127226957021<br />
2009-10 345591510325<br />
2009-11 197991117397<br />
2009-12 228003186895<br />
2009-2 125819024255<br />
2009-3 273597778760<br />
2009-4 212175602700<br />
2009-5 191651496603<br />
2009-6 195998789357<br />
2009-7 241366758346<br />
2009-8 262927838267<br />
2009-9 184963508476<br />
2010-1 226919138307<br />
2010-2 191615007774<br />
2010-3 216425793739<br />
2010-4 312177184245<br />
2010-5 312240110181<br />
2010-6 283374261868<br />
2010-7 362175217639<br />
2010-8 172072631498<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
In bytes. In July 2010 were uploaded 362 GB. [[User:Emijrp|Emijrp]] 23:16, 1 November 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Add a section to the article that suggest workarounds ==<br />
<br />
Easiest (to save content) is to submit to multiple websites. My personal favorites for typical files I upload are [[Ovi Share]] (by Nokia, unlimited diskspace for quite a wide variety of files but no easy mass download), [[Scribd]], [[docstoc]], [[Slideshare]] and [[Box.net]] (from which I can download files as a zip file). --[[User:Jaakkoh|Jaakkoh]] 04:39, 4 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
Wasn't sure where to post this, but what about FriendFeed, given that they're in the process of being acquired by Facebook, and people are talking about leaving and taking their content with them/deleting accounts? <br />
[[User:TysonKey|TysonKey]] 17:49, 13 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== whitehouse.gov ==<br />
<br />
Perhaps some mention should be made that the entity which owns this owes hundreds of *trillions* of dollars with no clear plan or schedule to repay this money. As a house in a bad neighbourhood with a world-leading quantity of foreclosures, it's just a matter of time before Commie China Inc. calls in the loans and the entire house of cards collapses. --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 18:24, 13 February 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Uncyclopedia and various former Wikia ==<br />
Quite a few of the Uncyclopedia individual-language Wikipedia parodies currently are Wikia and all but two of the rest have long been downloadable on download.uncyc.org - but there are two major ones missing (because they're hosted as independents): absurdopedia.org and uncyclopedia.kr (Russian and Korean, respectively). Odds are that there are backups of both from before they were moved independent, but these will be badly out of date. No idea whether the new hosts of these have any backups available for download.<br />
<br />
The same pattern likely also holds for a long list of wikis which have left Wikia due to ad-heavy forced reskins of that site in 2008 and again in 2010. http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Moved_wikis and http://complaintwiki.org were intended as consumer-complaint sites about Wikia, but de-facto should be being read as lists of MediaWiki installations, newly independent in hosting, which may or may not have downloadable backups. <br />
<br />
Might be best to assume that, just because Wikia (or another wiki farm) left the old wiki open and abandoned since 2008, that there's anything in the Wikia backups other than outdated content and vandalism once the community has established itself independently elsewhere. Wikia's infamous for keeping old wikis open after the community leaves and Wikia staff have been seen removing links to the new wiki on numerous occasions. <br />
<br />
Annoyingly, if some automated process on the old site is generating periodic backups of old data, the timestamp will appear current when the underlying data is three years outdated. --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 18:24, 13 February 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Facebook ==<br />
<big>Is it really doing <i>'ok'</i> ? Or, could it really all come crumbling down?</big><br />
<br />
# WHAT IF IT'S <b>NOT</b> ? <br />
##It would be a monumental <i>(and likely impossible task)</i><br />
##Most likely there would be ample opportunity and time given for users to grab their own data<br />
###What about the <i>if not</i> case, and of those users who might not or could not?<br />
* [hxxp://youtu.be/aY3rokHZgd0 Facebook is Dying, New Class Action Lawsuit Takes Aim]<br />
----<br />
I think most Facebook data is user-private and cannot be grabbed. [[User:Zeronet|Zeronet]] ([[User talk:Zeronet|talk]]) 09:12, 26 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== I am not sure if adding these is appropriate. ==<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
Youku - Chinese clone of YouTube<br />
Tieba - Chinese clone of Reddit<br />
Weibo - Chinese clone of Twitter<br />
Zhihu - Chinese clone of Quora<br />
<br />
niconico - Japan video site with "danmaku" (instant commentary system)<br />
AcFun - Chinese clone of niconico<br />
bilibili - Chinese clone of AcFun<br />
<br />
Douban - Chinese equivalent of IMDb / ISBNdb, and have many other features<br />
bangumi.tv - equivalent of Douban, focus on Japanese popular culture<br />
xiami.com - music listening and downloading<br />
Neteast Music - music listening and downloading<br />
<br />
nyaa - biggest torrent site of Japanese popular culture<br />
RuTracker - torrent site<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
[[User:Zeronet|Zeronet]] ([[User talk:Zeronet|talk]]) 19:33, 9 December 2018 (UTC)</div>Zeronethttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Zeronet&diff=32689User:Zeronet2018-11-27T04:59:31Z<p>Zeronet: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE:Z. 🌐🏴<sup>(Internet Anarchism)</sup>}}<br />
<center><big><big><br />
<br />
<b style="font-size:1.8em;"><br />
Will we avoid the <u style="display:inline-block;">digital dark age</u>?<br />
</b><br />
<br />
In fact, all the electronic information data of our time, are facing the risk of disappearing in the future.<br />
<br />
Maybe someday in the future, our understanding of the 21st century will be far less than the 20th century. At least at that time, the way of recording was paper or film, which might still be readable in the future. And now we are using more cloud storage.<br />
<br />
'''#DecentralizedWeb #DistributedWeb #OpenAccess #OpenSource'''<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<b style="color:black;font-size:1.8em;"><br />
Copyright law is just an excuse of censorship<br />
</b><br />
<br />
Who fucking gives government the power to <b style="color:red;display:inline-block">LEGITIMATE BOOK-BURNING</b>?<br />
<br />
If government can burn the so-called "copyright-infringing" content, how can guarantee to not abuse them? Talk is cheap.<br />
</big></big></center></div>Zeronethttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Zeronet&diff=32687User:Zeronet2018-11-27T04:45:57Z<p>Zeronet: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE:Z. 🌐🏴<sup>(Internet Anarchism)</sup>}}<br />
<center><big><big><br />
<br />
<b style="font-size:1.8em;"><br />
Will we avoid the <u style="color:red;display:inline-block;">digital dark age</u>?<br />
</b><br />
<br />
In fact, all the electronic information data of our time, are facing the risk of disappearing in the future.<br />
<br />
Maybe someday in the future, our understanding of the 21st century will be far less than the 20th century. At least at that time, the way of recording was paper or film, which might still be readable in the future. And now we are using more cloud storage.<br />
<br />
'''#DecentralizedWeb #DistributedWeb #OpenAccess #OpenSource'''<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<b style="color:black;font-size:1.8em;"><br />
Copyright law is just an excuse of censorship<br />
</b><br />
<br />
Who fucking gives government the power to <b style="color:red;display:inline-block">LEGITIMATE BOOK-BURNING</b>?<br />
<br />
If government can burn the so-called "copyright-infringing" content, how can guarantee to not abuse them? Talk is cheap.<br />
</big></big></center></div>Zeronethttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Zeronet&diff=32686User:Zeronet2018-11-27T04:35:12Z<p>Zeronet: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE:Z. 🌐🏴<sup>(Internet Anarchism)</sup>}}<br />
<center><big><big><br />
<br />
<b style="font-size:1.8em;"><br />
Will we avoid the <u style="color:red;display:inline-block;">digital dark age</u>?<br />
</b><br />
<br />
In fact, all the electronic information data of our time, are facing the risk of disappearing in the future.<br />
<br />
Maybe someday in the future, our understanding of the 21st century will be far less than the 20th century. At least at that time, the way of recording was paper or film, which might still be readable in the future. And now we are using more cloud storage.<br />
<br />
'''#DecentralizedWeb #DistributedWeb #OpenAccess #OpenSource'''<br />
<br />
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<br />
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Copyright law is just an excuse of censorship<br />
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Who fucking give governments the power to <b style="color:red;display:inline-block">LEGITIMATE BOOK-BURNING</b>?<br />
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Will we avoid the <u style="color:red;display:inline-block;">digital dark age</u>?<br />
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In fact, all the electronic information data of our time, are facing the risk of disappearing in the future.<br />
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Maybe someday in the future, our understanding of the 21st century will be far less than the 20th century. At least at that time, the way of recording was paper or film, which might still be readable in the future. And now we are using more cloud storage.<br />
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'''#DecentralizedWeb #DistributedWeb #OpenAccess #OpenSource'''<br />
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Copyright is just an excuse of censorship<br />
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Who fucking give governments the power to <b style="color:red;display:inline-block">LEGITIMATE BOOK-BURNING</b>?<br />
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</big></big></center></div>Zeronethttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Talk:Alive..._OR_ARE_THEY&diff=32677Talk:Alive... OR ARE THEY2018-11-26T09:12:20Z<p>Zeronet: /* Facebook */</p>
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<div>Has anyone attempted to restore a running copy of wikipedia from the dumps? If so do the dumps provide enough data that, in the event of a catastrophic data failure, wikipedia could be brought back up using just the backups?--[[User:Adewale|Adewale]] 08:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
* That's a very good question. The problem is that the dumps are now insanely huge. I don't know how many people would even have the capacity to unpack them. --[[User:Jscott|Jscott]] 15:45, 27 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
* This: http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/#1 suggests that DBpedia and FreeBase are attempting to maintain their own structured versions of the wikipedia dataset. Theoretically, if Amazon keeps their public dataset up to date, then it is possible to restore wikipedia from that.<br />
* Even worse, there is no real backup of the image data. According to their backup procedures[http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Backup_procedures] they only manually rsync them to another remote host sometimes. They already lost some images because of a software bug that they could not restore[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.commons/4175/focus=4178]. Maybe there is a possibility to (slowly) download all images (they provide a dump of the database table that contains all the image metadata) and safe them. As the text-only dump of wikipedia is already > 2 TB without compression, the image size must be HUGE. --[[User:Soult|Soult]] 10:57, 4 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
** Just calculated the total size: All images (without meta-data) are about 2604 GB (2.54 TB) in size (as of 24 January, 2009) without counting deleted or replaced images. --[[User:Soult|Soult]] 23:40, 9 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::All the images in [[Wikimedia Commons]] (7 millions) are about 6TB. [[User:Emijrp|Emijrp]] 23:12, 1 November 2010 (UTC)<br />
* Uh, well I know I use [http://www.yunqa.de/delphi/doku.php/products/wikitaxi/index WikiTaxi] regularly to read articles from the dumps. It works quite well. As for how easy it'd be to restore the site from the dumps rather than just read from them, I don't know. But I know the information is there and there's even tools already that read it. --[[User:Qwerty0|Qwerty0]] 19:21, 20 April 2011 (UTC)<br />
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=== Wikimedia Commons monthly uploads ===<br />
<pre><br />
date sum(img_size)<br />
2003-1 1360188<br />
2004-10 637349207<br />
2004-11 726517177<br />
2004-12 1503501023<br />
2004-9 188850959<br />
2005-1 1952816194<br />
2005-10 17185495206<br />
2005-11 9950998969<br />
2005-12 11430418722<br />
2005-2 3118680401<br />
2005-3 3820401370<br />
2005-4 5476827971<br />
2005-5 10998180401<br />
2005-6 7160629133<br />
2005-7 9206024659<br />
2005-8 12591218859<br />
2005-9 14060418086<br />
2006-1 15433548270<br />
2006-10 33574470896<br />
2006-11 34231957288<br />
2006-12 30607951770<br />
2006-2 14952310277<br />
2006-3 19415486302<br />
2006-4 23041609453<br />
2006-5 29487911752<br />
2006-6 29856352192<br />
2006-7 32257412994<br />
2006-8 50940607926<br />
2006-9 37624697336<br />
2007-1 40654722866<br />
2007-10 89872715966<br />
2007-11 81975793043<br />
2007-12 75515001911<br />
2007-2 39452895714<br />
2007-3 53706627561<br />
2007-4 72917771224<br />
2007-5 72944518827<br />
2007-6 63504951958<br />
2007-7 76230887667<br />
2007-8 91290158697<br />
2007-9 100120203171<br />
2008-1 84582810181<br />
2008-10 122360827827<br />
2008-11 116290099578<br />
2008-12 126446332364<br />
2008-2 77416420840<br />
2008-3 89120317630<br />
2008-4 98180062150<br />
2008-5 117840970706<br />
2008-6 100352888576<br />
2008-7 128266650486<br />
2008-8 130452484462<br />
2008-9 120247362867<br />
2009-1 127226957021<br />
2009-10 345591510325<br />
2009-11 197991117397<br />
2009-12 228003186895<br />
2009-2 125819024255<br />
2009-3 273597778760<br />
2009-4 212175602700<br />
2009-5 191651496603<br />
2009-6 195998789357<br />
2009-7 241366758346<br />
2009-8 262927838267<br />
2009-9 184963508476<br />
2010-1 226919138307<br />
2010-2 191615007774<br />
2010-3 216425793739<br />
2010-4 312177184245<br />
2010-5 312240110181<br />
2010-6 283374261868<br />
2010-7 362175217639<br />
2010-8 172072631498<br />
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In bytes. In July 2010 were uploaded 362 GB. [[User:Emijrp|Emijrp]] 23:16, 1 November 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Add a section to the article that suggest workarounds ==<br />
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Easiest (to save content) is to submit to multiple websites. My personal favorites for typical files I upload are [[Ovi Share]] (by Nokia, unlimited diskspace for quite a wide variety of files but no easy mass download), [[Scribd]], [[docstoc]], [[Slideshare]] and [[Box.net]] (from which I can download files as a zip file). --[[User:Jaakkoh|Jaakkoh]] 04:39, 4 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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Wasn't sure where to post this, but what about FriendFeed, given that they're in the process of being acquired by Facebook, and people are talking about leaving and taking their content with them/deleting accounts? <br />
[[User:TysonKey|TysonKey]] 17:49, 13 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== whitehouse.gov ==<br />
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Perhaps some mention should be made that the entity which owns this owes hundreds of *trillions* of dollars with no clear plan or schedule to repay this money. As a house in a bad neighbourhood with a world-leading quantity of foreclosures, it's just a matter of time before Commie China Inc. calls in the loans and the entire house of cards collapses. --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 18:24, 13 February 2012 (UTC)<br />
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== Uncyclopedia and various former Wikia ==<br />
Quite a few of the Uncyclopedia individual-language Wikipedia parodies currently are Wikia and all but two of the rest have long been downloadable on download.uncyc.org - but there are two major ones missing (because they're hosted as independents): absurdopedia.org and uncyclopedia.kr (Russian and Korean, respectively). Odds are that there are backups of both from before they were moved independent, but these will be badly out of date. No idea whether the new hosts of these have any backups available for download.<br />
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The same pattern likely also holds for a long list of wikis which have left Wikia due to ad-heavy forced reskins of that site in 2008 and again in 2010. http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Moved_wikis and http://complaintwiki.org were intended as consumer-complaint sites about Wikia, but de-facto should be being read as lists of MediaWiki installations, newly independent in hosting, which may or may not have downloadable backups. <br />
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Might be best to assume that, just because Wikia (or another wiki farm) left the old wiki open and abandoned since 2008, that there's anything in the Wikia backups other than outdated content and vandalism once the community has established itself independently elsewhere. Wikia's infamous for keeping old wikis open after the community leaves and Wikia staff have been seen removing links to the new wiki on numerous occasions. <br />
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Annoyingly, if some automated process on the old site is generating periodic backups of old data, the timestamp will appear current when the underlying data is three years outdated. --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 18:24, 13 February 2012 (UTC)<br />
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== Facebook ==<br />
<big>Is it really doing <i>'ok'</i> ? Or, could it really all come crumbling down?</big><br />
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# WHAT IF IT'S <b>NOT</b> ? <br />
##It would be a monumental <i>(and likely impossible task)</i><br />
##Most likely there would be ample opportunity and time given for users to grab their own data<br />
###What about the <i>if not</i> case, and of those users who might not or could not?<br />
* [hxxp://youtu.be/aY3rokHZgd0 Facebook is Dying, New Class Action Lawsuit Takes Aim]<br />
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I think most Facebook data is user-private and cannot be grabbed. [[User:Zeronet|Zeronet]] ([[User talk:Zeronet|talk]]) 09:12, 26 November 2018 (UTC)</div>Zeronethttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Zeronet&diff=32625User:Zeronet2018-11-25T20:26:40Z<p>Zeronet: Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:Z. 🌐🏴<sup>(Internet Anarchism)</sup>}} <center><big><big> <b style="color:red;font-size:1.8em;"> Will we avoid the <u style="display:inline-block">digital..."</p>
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Will we avoid the <u style="display:inline-block">digital dark age</u>?<br />
</b><br />
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In fact, all the electronic information data of our time, are facing the risk of disappearing in the future.<br />
<br />
Maybe someday in the future, our understanding of the 21st century will be far less than the 20th century. At least at that time, the way of recording was paper or film, which might still be readable in the future. And now we are using more cloud storage.<br />
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'''#DecentralizedWeb #DistributedWeb #OpenAccess #OpenSource'''<br />
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Copyright is just an excuse of censorship, perhaps and elitism. Nothing more.<br />
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<div>Like many sites before them, these places indicate a sunny outlook, a clean bill of health and a total sense of "all systems go". But as we've found out from those many sites before them, fortunes can change overnight.<br />
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Archive Team considers these sites specifically of interest because they solicit so much content, contain so many works and projects by a wide group of people, or have the internet particularly dependent on them. Consider this a fire drill.. know what you can do to get your data off these sites and back them off for later.<br />
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=== Owned by Yahoo! Imminent Demise! ===<br />
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* '''[[Flickr]]''' contains billions of files, hundreds millions of which are under a Creative Commons license or stored there by many museums and other cultural institutions. The site was tumblr-ised in 2013 and has been poorly functional ever since; pro users were removed, so it doesn't yet have a business model. Additionally, it's owned by Yahoo!, need to say more?!<br />
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=== Watchlist ===<br />
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* '''[[Academic Earth]]''' ({{url|1=http://academicearth.org/}}) has been worryingly unloved for a while, and holds a mountain of free education that's invaluable to the world.<br />
* '''[[Encyclopedia Astronautica]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.astronautix.com/}}) is the most comprehensive collection of the history of space travel. '''Period.''' Seriously, the official NASA history folks will refer you this website if they can't answer your questions. However, Mark Wade (the sole creator/maintainer) abandoned his blog at the end of 2007, and the Encyclopedia has not been updated since May 2008, despite much happening in the space exploration world since then. A [https://archive.org/details/EncyclopediaAstronautica backup] was made of the site as of 28/01/2017.<br />
* '''[[Angelfire]]''' has been in constant decline for many years now.<br />
* '''[[AnimeMusicVideos.org]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.animemusicvideos.org/}}) is fine right now, but they rely on donations and host vast amounts of user-edited music videos on their server (presumably without mirrors). Hard to download as you have to be a member to get all the download links, and after downloading a handful you have to vode before you can d/l again (or you can donate which presumably gives you 1 year of free d/l access). Also, this site might be a grey area, copyright-wise, as the videos are all cut together from copyrighted material.<br />
* '''[[BetaArchive]]''' ({{url|http://www.betaarchive.com/}}) has Kafkaesque requirements to be able to access it, and apparently refuses to be backed up, presumably so that they get more visitors. Valuable cultural library of historic software with no backups? Aargh.<br />
* '''[[BioMedia Project]]''' ({{url|1=http://biomediaproject.com/bmp/}}) is a large archive of various BIONICLE media that has not had a notable update since 2015.<br />
* '''[[Codecademy]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.codecademy.com/}}) has a large amount of valuable coding lessons.<br />
* '''[[DatasheetArchive]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.datasheetarchive.com/}}) hosts over 350 million PDF datasheets for integrated circuits, some of which are very old and hard to track down otherwise. The site is slow from time to time and uses a convoluted IFRAME-based online viewer, presumably to make scraping the site harder. Nevertheless, multiple other similar sites exist, with large parts of their PDFs non-overlapping, so that at some point, all should be saved. Similar sites include http://doc.chipfind.<!-- -->ru/ (1.6m datasheets), http://www.alldatasheet.com/ (20m datasheets), http://www.datasheets.com/ (250m datasheets), http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/, http://freedatasheets.com/ and several others<br />
* '''[[Dayviews]]''' ({{url|1=http://dayviews.com/}}), the Swedish photo diary community contains quite a bit of 00s Swedish "youth culture", but is at risk of being shutdown when you least suspect it due to its sinking user rate.<br />
* '''[[Delicious]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.delicious.com/}}) loves to change their API, which has a side effect of making it difficult to back up.<br />
* '''[[Elfwood]]''' has been home to tons of fantasy and sci-fi art and fiction since the late 90's, though since June 2016, plans for a "new Elfwood" have been put on hold, and as of Arpil 2017, the website is in an odd state where pages will return a status code of 504, while images will load just fine. It was last seen functioning normally in early December 2016.<br />
* '''[[Facebook]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.facebook.com/}}) seems stable at the moment.<br />
* '''[[FanFiction]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.fanfiction.net/}}) represents many thousands of user-generated stories, essays and huge amounts of work.<br />
* '''[[Forrst]]''' ({{url|1=http://zurb.com/forrst}}) was shut down on April 14th, 2014, but all posts were archived by Forrst.<br />
* '''[[FreewareFiles]]''' ({{url|1=http://freewarefiles.net/}}) is a treasure trove of free and open source completed softwares. It's been around for 20 years, but hasn't had its look updated in a long while.<br />
* '''[[FurAffinity]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.furaffinity.net/}})<br />
* '''[[Google]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.google.com/}}) wants you to think they will be here forever.<br />
* '''[[h2g2]]''' ({{url|1=https://www.h2g2.com}}) was (among?) the first [https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A550955 online, collaborative encyclopaedia(s)].<br />
* '''[[IFTTT]]''' ({{url|1=http://ifttt.com/}}) is still growing.<br />
* '''[[Internet Archive]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.archive.org/}}) seems stable at the moment, but its [https://archive.org/~tracey/mrtg/du.html 45 petabytes] of data (as of October 2018) aren't mirrored anywhere else. The code for their system isn't open source, and generally they're a single point of failure for a large amount of the web's history. Why should there be only 1 internet archive?<br />
** There is a second instance of the Wayback Machine at [http://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.aspx Bibliotheca Alexandrina], but it appears to have been broken since several years as of October 2018 ("The Resource you have requested is temporarily unavailable" when trying to access a snapshot as of 2018-10-03). It also hasn't been updated since 2007, i.e. all crawl data since 2008 is only available at the Internet Archive.<br />
** More discussion at [[INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK]]<br />
* '''[[Invisionfree]]''' ({{url|1=http://invisionfree.com/}}) is as far as I can tell not used by as many people nowadays as before, probably because other free forum hosts use better forum software like phpBB that has better layout and looks better. The copyright notice on [http://www.zifboards.com/ zIFBoards.com], which [http://invisionfree.com/ Invisionfree.com] redirects to, has not been updated since 2014.<br />
* '''[[JanusVR]]''' is a company that aims to re-imagine the web as "rooms" interconnected with portals. These "rooms" can be hosted anywhere. Though the company and its technology are still fairly new, there are already cases of rooms with missing assets or even entire links broken, and [[ArchiveBot]]'s ability to grab these rooms is somewhat limited.<br />
*'''[[JSFiddle]]''' ({{url|1=http://jsfiddle.net/}}) is referenced in many StackOverflow answers, as well as other forums, etc. It shows no signs of going away, but should we archive it just in case?<br />
* '''[[Kiwi Farms]]''' ({{url|http://kiwifarms.net/}}, {{url|http://kiwifar.ms/|former alternate .ms domain}}) is a notorious forum where users mock [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolcow "lolcows"], or people who have attracted ridicule because of their behavior or their beliefs. On January 20, 2017, the forum was shut down without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later.<br />
*'''[[Know Your Meme]]''' ({{url|1=http://knowyourmeme.com/}}) is at this point the de facto central repository for information on internet memes and culture. It is as popular as ever at the moment, but even with this popularity, former owners Rocketboom had trouble financing it. In the spring of 2011 was sold to Cheezburger Networks, a site which has been known to "reorganize" its properties, sometimes with a detrimental effect on content. Though it was quite a different story, I might remind people what happened to [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]].<br />
* '''[[Last.fm]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.last.fm/}}) is being cloned by free software developers in the form of [http://libre.fm Libre.fm] -- they have a tool, [http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/trunk/lastscrape/lastscrape.py?root=librefm Lastscrape] which can get all your listening data out into a tab delimited text file.<br />
* '''[[Literotica.com]]''' ({{url|1=http://literotica.com/}}) Contains over 290,000 user-written stories and poems. First pass at a backup: [http://mir.cr/12CMQUTL part1.rar], [http://mir.cr/HO79CCUO part2.rar], [http://mir.cr/TOVJWQ4E part3.rar], [http://mir.cr/1SIAB4AM part4.rar] -- contains the text of all stories as of the backup date in XML format. (One page of one story is missing because it doesn't exist on the site; embedded images and audio are not included this time; non-English stories aren't labelled with their language).<br />
* '''[[LiveJournal]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.livejournal.com/}}) fired a bunch of US-based developers, but is still serving from its new (presumably cheaper) data center in Montana.<br />
* '''[[Mapillary]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.mapillary.com/}}) project similar to Google's Street View, but with CC BY-SA photos submitted by users. Particularly worrisome since Mapillary requires purchasing licenses to download a large number of photos, making it essentially a big silo. See more at http://blog.improve-osm.org/en/2016/11/a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-mapmaking-with-osm-2/<br />
* '''[[Megalodon.jp]]''' ({{url|1=http://megalodon.jp/}}) is a Japanese archiving website. Outside of Japanese users, reddit users use it sometimes.<br />
*'''[[The Mod Archive]]''' ({{url|1=http://modarchive.org/}}) One of the largest collection of music modules.<br />
*'''[[Mod DB]]''' ({{url|1=http://moddb.com/}}) is the largest website dedicated to user generated game content, including mods (12,000) and addons (14,000) with a combined size of 4,5 TB of user-generated downloadable content.<br />
*'''[[Moegirlpedia]]''' ({{url|https://zh.moegirl.org}}) is the biggest Chinese-language encyclopedia for popular culture.<br />
*'''[[MUGEN Archive]]''' (({{url|1=http://www.mugenarchive.com/}}) Holds 1000's of user created addon content for the custom fighting game MUGEN. Much of the stuff uploaded here was thought lost forever. However, thanks to all the copyright infringing content and uploading a lot of content without the creators permission, the future of the site is questionable.<br />
* '''[[Pastebin]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.pastebin.com/}}) is still getting filled with text.<br />
* '''[[Pixiv]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.pixiv.net/}}) and '''[[deviantArt]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.deviantart.com/}}) are the largest Japanese and American (respectively) fanart (and valuable art in general) collections on the internet. Most of works are possibly included in [https://saucenao.com/status.html many boorus]<br />
* '''[[Pouet]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.pouet.net/}}) is an important site of the demoscene. It indexes and ranks demoscene productions ('prods') and also includes a free-for-all BBS-style forum.<br />
* '''[[Reddit]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.reddit.com/}}) is a content aggregator where [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Issues_relating_to_former_Digg_website many Digg users migrated in 2010]. Attracted controversy in July 2015, with accusations of [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/amageddon censorship] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_banning shadowbanning]. Stable for now, but team is small.<br />
* '''[[SourceForge]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.sourceforge.net/}}) is a critical repository of open source code, information, and webpages. It is mirrored and maintained, but there are sure to be parts that are neither.<br />
* '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.thepiratebay.org/}}) is one of the largest and most popular torrent search engines. It's still having persistent legal problems. The tracker went down in November 2012, but the site still serves torrents and magnet links. If a torrent is lost, it becomes impossible to connect to other computers distributing the shared files. Considering that there are links to TPB ''all over this wiki'', this site is pretty dang important. After they were raided in December 2014, a project known as [http://openbay.isohunt.to/ The Open Bay] was launched, which lets anybody host a mirror of TPB with automatic database updates, so even if TPB goes down again, temporarily or not, its database is still available.<br />
* '''[[Tribe]]''' ({{url|1=http://tribe.net}}) hosts large amount of user-generated data, and has been having consistent uptime issues.<br />
* '''[[Tumblr]]''' ({{url|1=http://tumblr.com}}) is a highly popular blogging platform which was bought by [[Yahoo]]! in May, 2013. <br />
* '''[[TVTropes]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage}}) is a popular wiki dedicated to finding recurring patterns in fiction, and discussing fiction in general. No word on whether there are backups. The administrators have a tendency to delete things indiscriminately, usually to save on disk space: article edit histories are frequently purged, and old forum threads have been known to get deleted mercilessly. A [http://archive.org/details/archiveteam-tvtropes-2012-09 backup] and [https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Main_Page an alternate website] with imported content from July 2012 are available. <br />
* '''[[Twitter]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.twitter.com/}}) is tweaking away, with a dire financial situation and [http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/06/twitter-in-meltdown-as-entire-userbase-revolts/ controversial decisions].<br />
* '''[[Voat]]''' ({{url|1=https://voat.co/}}) is a content aggegator that gained a niche fanbase in June 2015 after a controversy on [[Reddit]]. A "Days Remaining" countdown appeared on the front page in February 2016 and [https://voat.co/v/whatever/comments/943274 has been confirmed] to be the number of startup credit days remaining, which were depleted in June 15, 2016. Voat relies on donations to run.<br />
* '''[[WebCite]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.webcitation.org/}}) itself seems to be having trouble with funding, and is facing "possible discontinuation." As this site serves as a stable reference for fleeting Web references, it would be pretty disastrous if it went away.<br />
* '''[[whitehouse.gov]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.whitehouse.gov/}}) is up and running for #44, <s>but we've lost all info for #43. (See also: [http://www.kottke.org/09/01/old-whitehousegov-down-the-memory-hole kottke] and [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/whitehousegov_president_web_presence.php Read Write Web].)</s> and #43 is available at http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/ thanks to the [http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/ephemera_vs_the_law/ Presidential Records Act]. We also want to watch out for site changes / disappeared pages that were embarrassing or whatnot.<br />
* '''[[Wikia]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wikia.com/}}), the for-pay arm of Wikipedia (just kidding, it's a different company, but shares a lot of people) is a repository of directed, unsubject-to-wikipolitics wikis, many of them intense and completist. It'd be bad for them to go away.<br />
* '''[[WikiLeaks]]''' ({{url|1=http://wikileaks.org/}}) contains several thousand leaked documents from sources such as the Iraq War and the cables famously known under the label 'Cablegate'. Due to the content on the website, and that PayPal and Amazon (very) quickly dropped their hosting for them during Cablegate's opening days, it should be considered a potential target for any number of government committees for quick shutdown. They have an uncertain financial situation, and the site was inaccessible for some time in 2010.<br />
* '''[[Wikipedia]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wikipedia.org/}}) will surely be here forever and ever! Fortunately, we don't have to take their word for it as they offer dumps of the data minus the photos. However no-one has verified that Wikipedia can actually be restored from these dumps. If disaster strikes then we could discover a serious problem.<br />
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== Endangered ==<br />
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Did someone leave the oven on?<br />
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* '''[http://www.ning.com/ Ning]''' in 2010 has laid off 40% of staff and seems to be running out of money [http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/15/nings-bubble-bursts-no-more-free-networks-cuts-40-of-staff/]. There is certainly some networks worth archiving among the 2 million networks[http://blog.ning.com/2010/01/2-million-ning-networks.html] they host. Grouply[http://blog.grouply.com/grouply-welcomes-ning-networks/] and Posterous[http://blog.posterous.com/posterous-commits-to-building-a-ning-blog-imp] say they are going to offer migration tools.<br />
* As of 2014, ScraperWiki Classic is now read-only. But don’t worry! You can transfer this scraper to Morph.io if you want to continue editing it.<br />
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* '''[http://debates.oireachtas.ie/ debates.oireachtas.ie]''' on September 18th, 2012 the Houses of Oireachtas website [http://www.kildarestreet.com/statement2012/ announced] that it would no longer be updating its XML data for Irish parliamentary debates (1919-2012). Access to pre-existing data is still available, but is likely to disappear, if the current trend continues. It would be useful to at least capture the XML data that is there, while it is still available. Here's a [https://archive.org/details/debatesoireachtasie-XML WARC archive] of the XML only.<br />
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* '''[[Ownlog|ownlog.com]]''' - once one of the most popular and oldest blog platform in Poland seems to be dying slowly - no development and actualizations except most critical maintenance.<br />
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* '''[http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175 Groklaw]''' will no longer be posting new articles, "due to government monitoring of the internet, particularly e-mail." Whether or not its archives will remain online is unclear, although it does seem rather unlikely it will 100% disappear. OTOH, better safe than sorry.<br />
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* '''[[Seene]]''' ({{url|1=https://seene.co/u/docpop/}}) "lets you capture and share a new kind of 3D photo that brings together image, depth and movement to create a richer, more interactive experience, all on your iPhone." Unique content, but recently acquired by SnapChat - no new product updates since 2015. Likely to shut soon, unique and cool content.<br />
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* Strawpoll.me<br />
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* '''[http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ World of Spectrum]''''s current administrator announced that [http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/52892/had-enough he's ceasing to support the website and forum within 8 weeks] (as of July 3). The future of the website is uncertain. <br />
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* The '''Centralstation Community''' [http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/_Central-Station-v2-Q38As/blog/5449967/126249.html has closed]. The site is a UK-based social network for artists and creatives that provides hosting for content and portfolio. Users are being advised to back up their work as the new version of their platform will rely on existing media hosting sites like Flickr, Vimeo, and Soundcloud.<br />
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* Most of the paid staff at '''The Escapist''' [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/171005-Open-Letter-to-The-Escapist-Community has been "relieved of their duties"] as of October 20, 2017, and the future and longevity of the site is uncertain; it's currently run mostly through volunteer efforts.<br />
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* [[Yelp, Inc.]] lost 30% of its advertisers and people don't seem too happy about it.<br />
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* YoyoGames, developer of the GameMaker application, is planning to retire the old "'''[[GameMaker Sandbox]]'''" game hosting website in favor of the "GameMaker: Player" service, by late October.<ref>http://gamemakerblog.com/2014/10/04/its-official-digital-store-will-replace-gamemaker-sandbox/</ref> [http://help.yoyogames.com/entries/101815476-GameMaker-Player-FAQs "Sandbox content will remain available for a period of time until the GameMaker: Player is fully live."]<br />
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* [[nokia.com]] is [http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2014/09/19/goodbye-nokia-com-microsoft-makes-new-home-devices-services-microsoft-com/ being destroyed by Microsoft]. [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/job/adktg It has been saved] by the [[ArchiveBot]].<br />
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* [[Yahoo!]] [http://www.yqlblog.net/blog/2013/11/11/y-ahoo-it-url-shortener-end-of-life-announcement/ retired] the y.ahoo.it [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] November 20th 2013 but the shortener is still active.<br />
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* CtoSims Has been infected with a Javascript that redirects to different pages, and the owner seems to have not been active for a long time. The entire site now redirects to a placeholder page that says "Coming Soon!". As of December 2016, All Downloads have been taken down as well.<br />
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* [[YTMND]] - supposed to be "closing down soon" in [https://gizmodo.com/who-killed-ytmnd-1785765611 2016], but still up 2 years later.<br />
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== See Also ==<br />
* [[A Million Ways to Die on the Web]]<br />
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