Deathwatch

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.
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.
A list of sites which warrant pre-emptive monitoring (either for their cultural significance or because they appear to be endangered) can be found at Fire Drill. Some general brainstorming is at Deathwatch/Misc.
== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==
Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on Fire Drill.
=== 2028 ===
* Russian federal and regional authorities will gradually close their websites on the Internet and transfer information resources to the Gosuslugi portal. This process will take about five years.
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=== 2026 ===
* : , which includes a forum. Announcement first appeared between January and May 2022.https://web.archive.org/web/20220524161320/http://www.breatharian.eu/
* : ,Japanese Actress' Web Site Scheduled to Close Due to Death https://nakayamamiho.com/contents/878273
* July: will be archived https://os.mbed.com/blog/entry/Important-Update-on-Mbed/
* April: The , having been turned into a static site in July 2024, will be removed.
* : needs to close due to its lease being terminated https://www.omroephorstaandemaas.nl/rechter-huur-boscafe-correct-opgezegd-nog-ruim-anderhalf-jaar-openblijven.
=== 2025 ===
* Unknown: , due to battle with cancer; see 
* : KCN Kyoto will delete kinet-tv.ne.jp home pages
* : The Samsung Galaxy Watch App Store for Tizen OS watches will stop allowing downloads of previously purchased content.
* : goo.gl, Google's URL Shortener, will stop serving existing links. 
* : IA Picture sharing site will shutdown 
* : The online medical service “LINE Doctor” will be terminated on June 10, 2025.
* : forum will shut down.
* : The Samsung Galaxy Watch App Store for Tizen OS watches will stop allowing downloads of new content.
* : has decided to divest resources from . While a replacement forum run by the community is likely to emerge, the migration path is unclear. is the date PA's contract with Vanilla runs out.
* : The will be permanently closed, after being made read-only on December 21, 2024.
* : and will shut down, following switching to read-only mode on .
* : will 'most likely' shut down.
* : will delete 'inactive' videos.https://faq.dailymotion.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403392706194-Dailymotion-inactive-policies
* : , is a japanese blog hosting service, will shut down on April 22, 2025 
* : , a Mastodon instance, will shut down.
* April: will shut down.
* : 超！A&G+ (Super! A&G+), a Japanese internet radio station
* : , a speedrun analysis and sharing website, will shut down.
* : Star Server, a Japanese webhost, is ending access to all websites hosted its old free (Star Server Free) service as it migrates to all customers new service
* : LINE's notification service 
* : NTT Plala will remove public access to home pages.
* : So-net Blog (SS Blog), the former Sony Communications blog hosting service since 2004, will end its services on 31 March 2025.
* : , a Japanese web novel site active since 1999, will shut down. A work export function was launched on ; users are encouraged to import their works to , another site owned by the same publisher.
* : (Yahoo! Partner), Yahoo! Japan's dating platform, will shut down.
* : , esports service will end on March 31,2025
* : and the platform will close due to the UK Online Safety Act taking effect the next day.
* : Foro 3DJuegos, once largest Spanish-speaking videogame forum, will shut down. 
* (on or about): 
* : Q&A platform Retrospring will shut down (again). Their social media accounts will remain online.
* March: , a Mastodon instance, will shut down.
* : Rakuten's basal body temperature management service to end on February 28, 2025.
* :, Service for the cloud gaming platform "G-cluster" will end , February 28, 2025.
* : Rakuten Mobile announced that it will end its IP phone service “SMARTalk” on February 28, 2025.
* (typo'd as 2024 in announcement): GitHub's legacy Docker registry
* : (answers.microsoft.com) is closing the and parts of the site in favour of .
* : Japanese actor Masahiro Nakai's official website will close on February 19th(JST), following his retirement announcement and a scandal.
* : will shutdown on February 14, 2025. Due to the use of Zendesk and Cloudflare it cannot be ran in ArchiveBot.
* : (aka DGrin)
* : will retire their legacy account system and with it .
* First week of February: , the Jira issue tracker for Minecraft and Mojang, will undergo a lossy migration
* : went read-only, being replaced with Reddit instead.
* : 
* : , a craft-beer review website started in 2000, and purchased by Anheuser-Busch in 2016, will shutdown on February 01, 2025.
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* By : EA's will be replaced by .
* : Nico Nico Shunga service ends January 29, 2025 (14:00 JST); all posted R-15 content will be deleted, and posting such content after termination may lead to restrictions.
* : will "reach its End of Life".
* Soon™ as of Notice added between 2025-01-08 and 2025-01-22: Microsoft will delete that weren't distributed in the Microsoft Store.
* : closed and remain online in read-only mode 'for a limited time'.
* : 
* 'early 2025': on the web, following the shutdown of the app on 
* 'early 2025': will be decommissioned and "discontinue its current form".
* Forums inaccessible with message that "The full site corpus is only available (in readonly form) for 5 minutes past each hour, for members and guests."
* : 
* : foreign exchange information website will be closing down in January 2025 
* January: , having been acquired by Vimeo in 2017Banner on site: 'Livestream is shutting down in January 2025. Keep streaming on Vimeo'https://web.archive.org/web/20230701084346/https://livestream.com/blog/livestream-vimeo-acquisition
=== 2024 ===
* Unknown: "is closed and winding down" with some core functionality already declining. No new boorus can be created but existing boorus are still active and growing.
* Unknown: A streamer called who runs a hotline where he converts people to christianity is going to apparently stop streaming due to being called a clone of another streamer called "caseoh".
* Unknown: will be closed down and its content integrated into Archive of Our OwnNotice on added on or before 
* Unknown: abruptly shut down on due to the UK Online Safety Act. They made the existing contents available again the next day for archival purposes.
* Unknown: , 'a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3-D modeling tools', is shutting down their website, but not their forums. First mentioned on 
* Unknown: , a Korean genshin impact community. the channel moderator 
* Unknown: will be made read-only on and, although Ancestry says they "will remain on RootsWeb as static content", that likely just means the deletion deadline hasn't been set or announced yet.
* Unknown: , a Singaporean national news site will be merged into its sister digital property, on 1 October 2024. While not stated if the current content will remain, it is likely that it will be removed sometime in the future as they had removed older content either incrementally over the years or wholesale during a content management system migration.
* Unknown: The web hosting by the University of Massachusetts Amherst under people.umass.edu and courses.umass.edu will be sunset 'soon' as of .
* Unknown: , a French site dedicated to Counter-Strike, ceased activity on and will remain online for as long as funds last.
* Unknown: and , both are run by public media outlet WAMU which currently appears to be in danger of .
* Sometime soon: , a media website famous for its extremism coverage.
* Sometime soon: Australian versions of , , , , and are shutting down after operator Pedestrian Group decides not to renew its license.
* 'End of the year': , a German-language fan forum for the Anno video game series, and the associated filehost and wiki , will shut down unless new management is found.
* 'End of the year': messaging service will be shut down probably before the end of 2024
* 'End of the year': , a third-party reputation database for Steam users. Website and forums will 'be retired' at the end of 2024. API access to end . 
* 'End of the year': , a Mastodon instance, is shutting down.
* : will cease operations as the DVD Format/Logo License expires, allowing use of the DVD specification without a licence in the future.
* : will shutdown on .https://web.archive.org/web/20231111033943/http://www.generatorland.com/https://web.archive.org/web/20240116205032/http://generatorland.com/
* : Google Jamboard, after content-freezing on https://support.google.com/jamboard/answer/14084927
* : , a Japanese web hoster, will shut down.
* : the Open Collective Foundation (, ) is shutting down. 
* : Tech news site Techable (https://techable.jp/) will cease updates on October 31, 2024, and shut down on December 31, 2024 
* : 
* : , a Japanese musical group, will delete all the music work produced by Pusu on December 31, 2024
* : , the dedicated site for VMWare documentation, will be folded into Broadcom's general technical documentation site.
* : , a Korean online comics platforms, is shutting down 
* : Japanese Cinema services (DOKUSO Cinema streaming, DOKUSO Audition, DOKUSO Magazine, DOKUSO Film Fest, and DOKUSO Studio) will end on December 26, 2024. 
* : , an archive of items relating to Queensland
* : , customer support platform for German ISP Telekom, will undergo a lossy migration
* : shutting down, very old hoster since 1995. 
* : , a Mastodon instance, will enter read-only mode.
* : , a hosting service for of the demoscene
* : , OSUYO is a paid request service for analog illustrations. shutting down in 2024/12/10 
* : 
* : , a 25 year old website dedicated to vinyl, crate digging, DJing and beat making was to shut down. It was later announced that the owner would be 'keeping the lights on for the near future' as of .
* : Niconico will delete some videos showing some porn or "excessive violence", or which are otherwise illegal in unspecified foreign countries; and when not deleting these things prevent them from being accessed from outside Japan.
* : , a free web hosting service, will shut down.
* : (formerly known as Flipgrid and Vidku), a video discussion platform primarily meant for classrooms, will shut down. All of the topics and video responses that were posted to Flip will also be deleted.
* : The Samsung Galaxy Watch App Store for Tizen OS watches will stop providing paid content.https://www.yahoo.com/tech/old-galaxy-watch-lose-support-154918927.html/
* : , a Japanese mobile webhost for anime fans, fanfic writers, and artists, will shut down and delete all data, 'due to the outdated system and the shift to '.
* : , official community platform for the forum software, with paywalled downloads
* : will remove its downloads. The archive the owner posted is only partial. Not clear if the rest of the site will actually stay up, like he says, and he has apparently started deleting some accounts.
* : Roblox user ads will be deprecated and no longer accessible by July 31st, 2024. Ads are still available via , with ID values 6 to 12127735, with ratelimits.
* : and Xbox 360 Store will stop supporting the ability to purchase new games, DLC, and other entertainment content from the Xbox 360 Store on the console and the Xbox 360 Marketplace.
* : will shut down, having gone read-only on .
* : are moving to a new host, and will be deleting all content made before October 18, 2022 or after March 12, 2024. 
* : , an image file upload website, is shutting down.
* : FileHorst, a file hosting service operated by the same people as Abload, is shutting down.shutdown announcement
* : , a German forum for the Mini car. Attachments require a login.
* : , a New Zealand news service will shut down.
* Sometime in May: , a private Catholic college, will cease academic instruction after the end of the 2023-2024 academic year.. 
* : Several Niantic forums will close. will close after becoming read-only on . will change to a different forum software (removing all posts); the old posts will temporarily be available on between and then. will change to a different forum software (removing all posts); the old posts will temporarily be available on between and then. already shut down some point in the past (but the small amount of content still exists hidden behind the shutdown notice). (which is an official forum) will become readonly on and a new forum will be created at ; the existing forum will be deleted . No forum exists for Pokémon Go.
* April: will stop online play and other features that use online communication will cease to be available for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software.
* April: (an alternative to Miiverse after its closure), will die at the same time as the closure of services for the Nintendo 3DS.
* End of March: terminates its old web hosting service
* : will shut down. Each websites are located in directories under the www1.odn.ne.jp and www2.odn.ne.jp domains.
* : will shut down. Each websites are located in directories under the www.synapse.ne.jp, www2.synapse.ne.jp, www3.synapse.ne.jp, www4.synapse.ne.jp, www5.synapse.ne.jp, www13.synapse.ne.jp, and www15.synapse.ne.jp domains.
* Early March: , a domain registrar owned by Nifty (a large Japanese ISP), will close, requiring users to migrate to a new registrar. This is not the end of the @nifty homepage service (LaCoocan), Cocolog, and fixed IP services.
* Beginning of March: , a website builder for small businesses, will shutdown and start redirecting to the business profile itself.
* : , a stackoverflow-style support site for OSM, will be archived as static HTML.
* February?: forums
* : , a browser game based on user-generated content, will shut down.
* : , an interactive visual storytelling platform, is shutting down.
* : is shutting down due to high bandwidth costs.
* : 
* : Discord will begin to enforce signatures for attachment uploads from before .
* : Google Groups will stop adding new content from Usenet. Existing archives to remain available.
* : , a Bulgarian video hosting platform, will remove user-uploaded content from public view. They had initially done this on without prior announcement but then backtracked and made things available again for a month on .
* : Support for self-hosted Jira instances will end.
* : is shutting down due to "regulatory uncertainty".
* : The Rochester Institute of Technology will shut down the due to Atlassian Server being discontinued.
* : , a file storage service, will shut down.
* : , acquired by LinkTree.
* : , formerly Slashdot Japan, and , formerly SourceForge.JP, will shut down.
* : , an online tournament organizer acquired by Major League Gaming will shut down.
* : , a Dutch/Belgian tech site, will shut down.
* January (under review for possible extension): Chrome Web Store will stop accepting updates to manifest v2 extensions and remove all remaining manifest v2 items from the store, with support disabled for running these extensions in the Chrome browser.
=== 2023 ===
* Unknown: will close its US stores and website. No timeline given.
* Unknown: China Judgments Online (court verdicts in the PRC)
* Unknown: , a Yahoo News 'Gen Z-Focused' sister site has laid off staff and will be shutdown. 
* Unknown: 
* Unknown: , a french site about celebrities appearing on TV, announced removing hosted videos and at some point the site as well
* Unknown: publication covering classical music. Publication will end in November and unknown what will happen to the website.
* Unknown: blog covering daily TV ratings. Publication ended 6/27/23 and site to go offline sometime in near future.
* Unknown: , a website that allows users to upload their Splatoon battles and statistics, has announced a potential shutdown in the future, due to being scared of Nintendo's copyright.
* Unknown: may be phased out with new API. Last reachable May 4, 2023.https://web.archive.org/web/20230504170115/https://twittercommunity.com/
* December 22: , was a breakfast show by Network 10.
* December 21: 
* December 21: , the biggest women's forum (running vBulletin) in Poland active since 2001, will enter read-only mode.
* December 19: , Global Cycling Network live streaming service and the GCN app will be closing in all countries and regions.
* December 19: , an Australian outlet on the photography industry, is winding down, though the website will remain online for the time being.
* December 15: is closing operations at Swinburne University.
* December 15: The , one of Mozilla's public-facing telemetry websites for beta/nightly Firefox users. Data may be made available elsewhere.
* December 11: , a platform for digital art featuring tutorials and galleries contributed by users, is getting rid of those things, having made the sections read-only on .
* December 1: Google will start deleting inactive accounts under its , taking down shared Google Photos, Blogger (aka Blogspot), Google Docs, and more.
* November 30: , a popular blockchain explorer tool will be shut down.
* November 14: , a forum related to He-Man which has been running for 23 years will shut down on November 14th. 
* October 29: , a Slovenian free forum host
* October 28: The new owner of online circuit simulator is making its service "more accessible with new pricing tiers", therefore an unknown number of users must "upgrade to a paid tier to maintain access", according to an email notification.
* October 1: , the official forums for the Canucks hockey team is shutting down for undisclosed reasons. 
* October 1: , a news blog with an affinity for military operations and state affairs, will be shutting down after 10 years because of personal reasons.
* Between September 1 and December 31: in Q4 2023, will shut down
* August 31: , a long-running website with files for train simulation games, mostly Microsoft Train Simulator
* June 30 2021 March 31 2021 August 31: Web host Webs will shut down.
* August 15: , a music and radio trade publication will be ceasing operations. 
* August 11: , a Dutch regional supermarket chain that has been bought out by Albert Heijn. All stores are in the process of being remodelled into Albert Heijn supermarkets.
* August 1: , a site that hosts customizations for the computer games SpinTires, MudRunner, and SnowRunner, has a popup saying "We will sunset this page on August 1, 2023". It says "We're moving to CurseForge!", but searching for any of those three games on CurseForge's site turns up nothing, so it's not clear whether the content will be moved or deleted. (It seems plausible also that there may be similar sites for different games affected, but unsure how to check if that is the case.)
* July: 
* July: (wikipedia:Trove, National Library of Australia)
* July 31: , a WordPress service for people with Harvard email addresses will shut down. (The shutdown was originally announced for June 30, but was deferred in favor of making blogs read-only on that date.)
* 'On or before July 24': , VTuber's video collection will shut down. They provide a list of videos that no longer exist and a dump of the complete database.
* July 9: TPG's ISP Hosting, will shut down per an email to users. The does not give the exact date.
* July 7: , a Mastodon instance, is shutting down due to burnout.
* July 1: , which has been creating "fast web pages for everyone" since 2014 is shutting down on July 1 due to "bad actors". People can create their own page with their own unique URL and add text to it. Although as of September 3, 2023, the site is still up.
* July 1: , an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.
* June (under review for possible extension): Chrome Web Store: "All existing Manifest V2 items with visibility set to Public at that time will have their visibility changed to Unlisted." 
* June 30: , a fork of Slashdot created in the early 2010s, was to shut down but might live on.
* June 28: (Yandex.Q) went read-only but will stay online as a 'museum' (for now).
* June 27: IRL, a social media app intended to allow young people to connect and discover events shutdown at 12PM PDT.
* May 15: Imgur change their terms of service 'focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content'.
* April 13 or 14: Docker Hub was going sunset and make inaccessible all Free Teams until they realised what a bad idea that was.
* April 10: DPReview
* April 6: RootsWeb's 
* 'early April': (unless a buyer is found)
* March 31: (Pomf.se clone)
* February 28: , Spanish forums for video games launched in 2006.Notice on : 'Los foros de AnaitGames dejarán de estar disponibles el próximo 28 de febrero. Muchas gracias por este tiempo. En adelante, las comunidades oficiales de la web vivirán en Patreon y Discord.'
* February 23: Issuu will start enforcing new limits on free accounts, rendering some content inaccessible.
* January 31: Zhihu Circles, Zhihu Circles will be terminating access to the circle's homepage on 1/31/23, will likely stop working by 12/26/22 according to the published timeline. All direct link to posts will stop working by 3/27/23 and the ability to download your posts will be disabled
* January 1: Karayou.com
=== 2022 ===
* Unknown: radio station from San Francisco, along with its site, which hosts past recordings. The station was put up for sale without success, and the owner intended to abandon it at the end of the year.
* End of 2022: , closing after 2022. 
* 'By early 2023': 
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa
* (Unknown): Zenly On 2022-08-31 Snap Inc. announced that they were beginning the process of winding down Zenly as part of a restructuring. 
* (Unknown): Voisey On 2022-08-31 Snap Inc. announced that they were beginning the process of winding down Voisey as part of a restructuring. 
* End of 2022 or before: The will be "decomissioned".
* Throughout late 2021 through 2022?: Vimeo emails users in the top 1% of bandwidth usage telling them to pay thousands of dollars per year to continue using the service.
* December 31: Clara.io, a 3d model repository, will shut down.
* December 31: , a podcast hosting service founded in 2003
* Soon™ as of December 25: CurseForge's () and forums
* December 1: , a famous Japanese blogging service, will start deleting its website in order to terminate its service on January 31, 2023. The domain of each website consists of "*.at.webry.info".
* November 16: Polish file host chomikuj.pl will start deleting "old, long unused files".
* November 1: Old (roughly, older than 2 years) apps on the Google Play Store cease being discoverable in search or installable on newer operating systems
* September 30 sometime later: The FluxBB will be "retired" in favor of .
* August: , a manufacturer of projection mapping equipment
* June 30: Educational publisher McGraw Hill will shut down Glencoe.com 'and all of its associated sites". The glencoe.com domain itself had already been retired in 2017 after getting past the retirement notice, but the content continued to be available under glencoe.mheducation.com.
* June 30: 
* June: Chrome Web Store ends support for Chrome apps on Chrome OS (excluding for Enterprise and Education customers, which will remain supported until at least January 2025). https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/changes-to-chrome-app-support-timeline.html 
* 'Summer' July 7: web game platform
* May 1: Flickr is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."
* April 29 (only some links may be removed now): GitHub, with a lead time of only 4 days, will shut down their git.io URL shortener.
* April 1: Coub
* April 1 March 24 March 10: (BPO) will be switched to read-only mode and issues migrated to GitHub.
* March 31: , a Japanese web hosting service will shutdown. Some people are working on collecting URL lists .
* March 9: The English version of the online card-trading game A3! shuts down., notice at top as of January 28; presumably this is repeating information from 
* March 9: (LSDB), a database of raves
* January 31: 
* "Begining of 2022", apparently January 11, , : Various services run by the French organization Framasoft
=== 2021 ===
* December 31: , a German gaming news site and community, was supposed to shut down, according an announcement on its sibling site . However, no notice was posted on the site itself, and as of it is continuing publication. (4Players previously announced that it would close on , but on instead reported that it would be continuing under new ownership.)
* December 31: The Samsung Tizen App Store for phones has been shut down 
* October to November: The Tor Project discontinued support for v2 Onion Services. The core Tor software stopped supporting them in versions 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11, and 0.4.6.8, all released on ; Tor Browser dropped support in version 11.0 on . As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.
* September 30: Khan Academy planned to remove its . (This was originally announced for , but later delayed.)https://web.archive.org/web/20200812104146/https://support.khanacademy.org/hc/en-us/articles/360043801271-Khan-Academy-Courses-to-be-Retired-in-Summer-2020 However, it subsequently announced that the course would remain available until 2026.
* September 10: , a Brooklyn news site, ceased publication. Still online as of .
* "mid 2021": Docker Hub will start deleting free accounts' "inactive" images (those that have not been pushed or pulled in 6 months), comprising almost one third of the total data. This was originally announced for ,https://web.archive.org/web/20200813145030/https://www.docker.com/pricing/retentionfaq but later delayed.https://web.archive.org/web/20201022210445/https://www.docker.com/pricing/retentionfaq As of , promised further announcements have not been made, the "Container Image Retention Policy" page has been deleted, and the pricing page does not mention image retention; it's unclear whether Docker Hub ever pursued this.
* : Periscope, the livestreaming service owned by Twitter, shut down its mobile app and went read-only. "Broadcasts that were shared to Twitter will live on as replays", while "Periscope web at periscope.tv, [sic] will remain available as a read-only archive of public broadcasts." Videos are still available on both Twitter and periscope.tv/pscp.tv as of .
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' went read-only. Still online as of .
=== 2020 ===
* Unknown: Penguin Random House in December 2019 has been sold to Bertelsmann, which already controlled it. Changes may be coming.
* December 14: PornHub disabled all content uploaded from unverified accounts (meaning accounts that haven't been officially registered/verified to a specific performer or company) without prior announcement, following a dispute with MasterCard and Visa. It is unclear whether accounts will be able to retain content if they go through the verification procedure. MindGeek, the owners of PornHub, own a number of other large sites, such as YouPorn, PornHub, Xtube, Tube8 and Thumbzilla, that may be the next to look out for.
* ca. October 9: , Dell's "backup" download site for drivers & Co. in case their (JS-laden) broke. As of 2022-09-17, it is still online, although it JS-redirects to the JS hell site.
* February 4: The and forums went read-only. Both were to have shut down completely on 16 June 2020 in favor of static archives; in fact, the Cyan forums remained online until March 2021 (it's unclear whether any official static archives are available) and the Myst Online forums are still online as of 2022-09-17.
=== 2019 ===
* Unknown December 11: Twitter will begin purging inactive accounts.:File:Twitter december 2019.png:File:Twitter december 2019 2.png
* October 10: (G/O Media) ceases publication. The future of the website is unclear. Still online as of 2022-09-11.
* September 20: Mozilla software community site mozillaZine's admin kerz announces that the site will be frozen. The forums and wiki are both still online and functional as of 2022-09-11; however, the admin is unreachable and the domain expires on 2026-09-06.
=== 2018 ===
* October 1: Large Manosphere blog Return of Kings with 5,800 articles and an active comments section is going on hiatus. Still online as of 2022-09-11.
* September 14: Racked ceased publication but will continue serving the archives for now. Still online as of 2022-09-11.
* September onwards: ZAM Network is shutting down a variety of websites since September.
* Date unknown: Harvard's web blog service is removing blogs by people not currently at Harvard.
=== 2017 ===
=== 2016 ===
* 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. As of 2022-09-11, the site is still online.
* 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. As of 2022-09-11, the boards were still online.
== Dead as a Doornail ==
=== 2025 ===
* (originally slated for sometime after Oct 1 2024): Cohost, a social media site, became read-only, with best efforts to stay online through the end of 2024
=== 2024 ===
* : aka sporterizing.com
* : , a local newspaper founded in 1885, abruptly shuts down following a defamation lawsuit
* : , a Mastodon instance by Mozilla, is shutting down. 
* : ASK.fm, a question-and-answer platform, will shut down 
* : shutting down, online diagram software. 
* : , documentation of the Minecraft network protocol, will sunset. A wiki dump will be uploaded at this time.#mcdevs on libera.chat
* : , a Polish computer forum, will shut down.
* : , the Notifico (IRC notification service) instance by the original author
* : 
* : 
* : , a collection of out-of-print comics.https://closing.mangaz.com/info/2114/index.html
* : , a project journal web app from Mozilla will be shutdown.
* : Veoh
* : , which includes forums.localmonero.co
* : , an Apple enthusiast site, will shut down , the main site having ceased publication on .
* : , a NSFW blogging platform, will shut down.
* : , a fansite dedicated to archiving the works of Yoko Taro shut down at the request of Square Enix's legal department.
* : implemented a (partially-broken) content freeze (which started with 2 weeks of temporary downtime)
* : ,e-onkyo is a Japanese high-res music download/news service that will shut down on October 16, 2024.
* : CuriousCat, a Q&A site, shut down.
* : and , which offered free Internet services to underserved individuals and organizations, ended operations.https://web.archive.org/web/20240714174846/http://www.onlinepolicy.org/newindex.php/important-opg-queernet-winding-down-operations-find-new-service-provider-by-september-30/
* : Tver's news site TverPlus, a Japanese TV news distribution site, shut down on 09/30/2024.
* : , a news site about Akihabara, anime and other culture, will shut down. Probably will be shut down at 15:00 JST(UTC+9).https://akiba-souken.com/article/66874/
* : , a Polish ISP host, will shut down.
* : The forum.bodybuilding.com forums were shut down without prior noticehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodybuilding.com#Forums
* : Mildom, a Japanese live streaming platform, will shut down.https://web.archive.org/web/20240820131808/https://support.mildom.com/hc/ja/articles/36550955435161-Mildom%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%93%E3%82%B9%E7%B5%82%E4%BA%86%E3%81%AB%E9%96%A2%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E3%81%8A%E7%9F%A5%E3%82%89%E3%81%9B
* : , a Mastodon server, was shut down because of server costs.
* : (魔鏡歌詞網), a comprehensive lyrics website popular in Taiwan and Hong Kong disappears without notice. It has been noted that all Google results seem to have been replaced with links to KKBOX.
* : was shut down and redirected to 
* : Picdig, a Japanese portfolio service, will shut down.Email sent to users; screenshot
* : LEGO Insiders Community, a social site for LEGO builders by The LEGO group.
* : , a Japanese social image host, will shut down, along with and .
* : , a Sharkey Fediverse instance will shut down.
* : UK Tesco (supermarket) unofficial staff forum will be shut down after the owner passed away. The forum has been made viewable to all without restrictions since the closure announcement.
* : , a forum for FreeBASIC, having gone read-only on .
* : the World of Tanks forums (for , , and ) will shut down (having gone read-only at ).
* : will shut down their and instances.
* : 
* : will be shutting down (). Apparently GIMP 3 will be released then, with which any GIMP 2 scripts will be incompatible with.
* Early May: , a social media site, will shutdown.
* : (formerly known as Download ASCII) was a site that hosted a varitey of Japanese software. It shut down with limited notice.
* : OS/2 Archive
* : Marketplace comments will be deprecated and all existing comments will be deleted on 9th of April 2024 
* : 
* : , a Mastodon instance, will shut down.
* : , an anime streaming service, will shut down.
* April: Minecraft mod ComputerCraft's , including and a , was shut down without advance notice. A new landing page was announced, but the old content might not appear again.
* Beginning of April: , a Fediverse instance, will shut down.
* End of March: , an online alcohol ordering and delivery platform, will be shutdown by Uber.
* : The for the video game Big Farm by GoodGame (in all ) will be shut down in favour of Discord, having gone read-only on .
* : , the Australian branch of the online restaurant booking platform, will shutdown.
* : will shut down.
* : , Japanese web magazine will shut down. It will finish updating at the end of 2023.
* : will shut down.
* : , after going read-only on 
* : will shut down its app and website. The website already seems unavailable as of simply redirecting to the shutdown notice and the app was removed from app stores on .
* : , a mapping directory, will shut down.
* : will close after becoming read-only on .
* : Taringa!
* : imageboard
* : , an athletic training and coaching platform, is shutting down.
* Late February: , a social news aggregator app will shutdown after going read-only on .
* : will shut down.
* : (and probably will shut down.
* : , a host of non-amateur comicsNotice shown on load of homepage
* : , a free newsletter platform by Mailchimp
* : , a Mastodon instance shutting down on 2024-04-12 had their domain suspended on 2024-02-12. (IP address and alternative domain name) It will be shutting down on .
* : Info box on the site as of : 'Warning: Gotm will shut down permanently on the 16th of February 2024.' (screenshot)
* : The of software company Corel (now Alludo)
* : , a Mastodon instance, will shut down in the beginning of April on , due to a critical security vulnerability.
* : , a Chinese-language painting app, will shut down.https://web.archive.org/web/20240125181915/https://s.haowanlab.com:8008/activities/saybye/huababye.html
* : was shut down and redirected to ESET research. downloaded about 1700 search pages from the start and end for all queries, e.g. https://www.virusradar.com/en/search/all/en?page=1 through https://www.virusradar.com/en/search/all/en?page=1700 and https://www.virusradar.com/en/search/all/en?page=35900 through https://www.virusradar.com/en/search/all/en?page=37651. Most content should have been found through other search queries, but the job is likely incomplete.
* : , a news site, shut down.https://web.archive.org/web/20240131001059/https://themessenger.com/https://web.archive.org/web/20240201001548/https://themessenger.com/
* : ceases operations, as announced officially only two days before
* : South Park Forums
* : , website and forum for digital artists, shut down.
* : , an old My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic imageboard website, shut down.
* : this was a journey registration for commuting focused on small business. in the end of 2023 the Louwman Groep decided to stop this service do to low adoption rate. and also offering a a similar services for mid to big business called reisbalans
* January: , a "18+ only Mastodon server for bears, chubbies and chasers" shut down due to non-payment of hosting costs alongside the owner being unreachable. It was brought back online on for 30 days so that existing users could export their data but disappeared again early on or before .
* : , retail website.
* JanuaryBetween and : 
=== 2023 ===
* December 31: shut down.
* December 31: shut down. This was one of the very few reliable sources about D&D online available in Japanese.
* December 31: , a writing community, went offline.
* December 31: , a wiki by the non-profit Ohio History Connection
* December 31: is shutting down. Originally, this was going to happen by the end of 2023, then a surge in donations shifted the date to early February 2024 a few days later, but then the site shut down at the end of 2023 anyway.
* December 31: shut down.
* December 28: , a cosmetics store, ceased taking orders.
* December 25: 
* December 15: 
* December 1: , family tree software for The Sims, shut down
* November 30: (dotup.org), a Japanese file hosting service launched in 2006
* November 30: , Nigeria’s pioneer digital publishing and bookselling platform, shut down.
* November 19: The old V3rmillion, a mainly Roblox exploiting forum, was taken off on November 19th around 22:16 UTC, six days after selling their domain. The forum has been reset via the change of ownership. It is now controlled by the team who have created Bloxflip, Robot, BloxCrusher, CaptchaRobot, Bloxland and RblxApp.
* November 8: , a free online chat website that allowed users to randomly socialize with others one-on-one without the need to register. The owner shut down the service suddenly, citing attacks against the service based on the behaviour of a malicious subset of users.
* November 4: 
* November 3: , a modding and game research forum, went offline. The deadline was initially the end of the yearhttps://web.archive.org/web/20231006230132/https://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?t=27281, then shifted to "by December 1st"https://web.archive.org/web/20231013225610/https://forum.xentax.com/index.php, and then, after putting everything behind a login wall with no registration option, shifted again to "by November 3"https://web.archive.org/web/20231030185131/https://forum.xentax.com/index.php.
* November 1: (t2.social)
* October 31: Amazons live music app, , shut down.
* October 31: The World of Warships forums (, , and ) were shut down in favour of Discord.
* October 27: 
* October 21: , a blog covering the New York Yankees minor league system, shut down 2 weeks after the announcement due to low readership.
* October 5: Pages Perso Orange
* October: , a Brazilian discussion forum on file sharing that had been online since 2004, was forced to shut down by IFPI.
* Octoberhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230925001110/https://www.zeroshell.org/ to Decemberhttps://web.archive.org/web/20231216160012/http://www.zeroshell.org/: Zeroshell went offline (as originally announced for ).https://web.archive.org/web/20210421124021/https://zeroshell.org/
* September 30: FOIAonline
* September 29: shipped their last DVD. Customers received their final bill in August, and returns were accepted until October 27. The site had a sizeable collection of publicly-available video trailers and metadata for ~37172 discs.
* September 29: ZOWA terminated their service. Uploads stopped on July 31.
* September 17: removed videos by uploaders that are not SAPO partners.
* September 6: Kongregate removed the remaining forums that survived the 2020 purge.Announcement via a that gets rendered by JavaScript on game pages
* September 1: Gfycat shut down.Notice on the as of July 1: "The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat.com and logging in to your account. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com".
* August 31: , a Canadian file host, shut down.
* August 31: , a Chinese IT forum, shut down.
* August 31: Xuite, a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, shut down.
* August 29: "The apps and web listening service will be shutting down on August 29, 2023" 
* August 27: , a large Turkish photo sharing forum. A moderator announced that it would shut down on 2023-09-01, but the announcement post was short lived, being removed around 16:00Z on 2023-08-23. An ArchiveBot job () was started for this site and managed to save a good chunk of it before the site was ultimately prematurely shut down around 04:00Z on 2023-08-27.
* August 21: Skyblog, a French social network, shut down. The company said it would move the anonymized content to the National Archives of France, where it will be available for researchers.
* August 16: , an "anonymous" file sharing service shut down, citing excessive abuse.
* August 10: , a third-party list of Discord 'servers'.
* August 1: , a Pokémon GO community, shut down all services due to Niantic axing their sponsorship.
* August 1: Wysp, an artist community, permanently turned down.
* July 14: , a web hoster
* July 12: 半次元 (Banciyuan), a Chinese ACG community
* June 30: , an industrial automation hardware manufacturer, shut down its website following discontinuation of customer support in December 2022.
* June 30: 
* June 30: 
* June 30: , an image placeholder generator service, shut down. All served images were watermarked with a shutdown notice as of June 13.
* June 30: ЯRUS, a Russian social media site launched in 2020 announced it would be closing its doors on June 30, 2023 at 15:00 Moscow time (12:00 UTC).
* June 29: (database hoster) was acquired, shut down. Database owners can dump their databases and restore them elsewhere.
* June 29: LINE BLOG
* June 28: Game Atsumaru (ゲームアツマール), part of Niconico, shut down. Creators have been given the ability to download their games. A replacement game hosting service was to launch in April.
* June 27: a social network/instant messaging platform went offline at 12 PM PDT.
* June 27: Tiki
* June 21: 
* June 20: were migrated to a self-hosted Discourse instance
* June 16: Egloos, a Korean blogging platform, shut down. Former users were given the option to request a data export until December 18.
* June 16: , a Mastodon instance
* June 5: 
* June 2: , a video game journalism website owned by Vice shut down.
* "May": , a forum for the GIMP image-editing program will not be renewed "sometime in May" 
* May 31: , a site and forum dedicated to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, closed.
* May 31: , a Google-Docs-like cloud backup, versioning, and collaboration service used by music producers to store and share their projects, will shut down.
* May 9: shut down.
* May 8: Github Team Discussions were deprecated. The API will be deprecated at April 30 or at some later point in time.
* May 8, 00:00 UTC: , following a legal battle with music labels
* April/May: went read-only on January 1 after 17 years of operation. It was deleted around the end of April, having been announced for the first quarter of 2023.
* April 30: Enjin
* April 30: https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6
* April 30: , the forum of an Italian website focused on technology and smartphones, shut down by 2023-04-30.
* April 26: , an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. 
* April 25: , having migrated from the previous forum software only a year prior, shut down in favour of Discord.
* April 24: ,one of the most popular Internet forums in China, shut down.
* April 20: , a homepage and newsletter hosting service, shut down. 
* April 15: shut down: "The Grex system will be permanently shut down and cease operation on April 15, 2023. This is due to lack of staff support and other reasons. See ya.". Hosts user websites on ~tilde URLs, there is an .
* April 15: , a Filipino forum site, shut down. 
* April 15: RootsWeb's 
* April 14: deleted all old wikis on subdomains
* April 10: 
* April 2: Scripting Helpers decided nobody needs to ask for help anymore. "The current website will be replaced with a static version without any dynamic features."https://scriptinghelpers.org/blog/sunsetting-scripting-helpers
* March 31: BBoard.de, a free German forums host
* March 31: The GitLab instance shut down.Notice on blog post 
* March 31: shut down its website and API.
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's 
* March 31: were read-only from March 20 and shut down on March 31. Announcement: 
* March 31: and were discontinued.
* March 31: (Qualcomm Innovation Center Inc.) on Code Aurora was deleted following their (allegedly poor, lossy) migration to a year earlier. The entirety of source.codeaurora.org was taken down, though only mirrors were remaining apart from the QUIC repositories.
* March 31: Zippyshare.com
* March 27: Nintendo 3DS and Wii U eShops shut down.
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites
* March 15: , a sports photography website, shut down after being online since 2002-06-21.
* March 15: along with its 
* March 10: AltspaceVR
* March 8: 
* March 1: The Gitea instance was replaced by a different server software.Notice on pages, e.g. 
* March 1: shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.
* March 1: , a "resource for Billions miscellany, featuring every obscure and arcane cultural reference, searchable by episode, keyword or the character who said it."
* February 28: , a journalism site for long scientific articles
* February 28: : 'Attention former Termbos. The entire site ( archives/blog/termboard/everything) will be permanently going offline at the end of the month. The message board is back open if there's anything there anyone would like to recover/save. Same goes for anything in the reviews/content archives. I'll have a backup saved for posterity, but I think it's time to put Terminal Boredom to sleep. Thanks everyone who was a part of it.', posted by Rich K (@termbo) on 2023-02-13.
* February 28: , a website that allowed users to post sightings of the Google car. Revived in 2024 under different ownership, however without the old submissions.
* February 28: , a Pink Floyd fan community that had existed since 2006
* February 15: After nearly 20 years, it froze content on Nov 30, 2022 and closed completely Feb 15, 2023.
* February 1: , although a static dump with partial data (e.g. usernames) removed and different URLs is staying online at least for the time being.
* February 1: Pandora.tv, a video hosting site.
* February 1: (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)
* January 31: eOldal.hu, a Hungarian web hoster
* January 31: 
* January 31: 
* January 31: shut down.
* January 31: WebryBlog shut down and access to all blogs updated since January 18, 2022 ended. 
* January 28: , , and 
* January 23: 
* January 21: Onlyfiles
* January 18: Revue, a newsletter service bought by Twitter in early 2021
* January 18: Google Stadia
* January 11: 
* January: The for Brigitte, a German women's magazine, went read-only on 2021-12-14. No plans for deletion were announced, but the forums were deleted in January 2023.
* January 1: removed "cryptocurrency- or blockchain-related projects"
* January ('start of [2023]'): 
=== 2022 ===
* End of December: , a website for collection projects, such as Geocities in Japan, shut down. The GeoLog Project was previously thrown into Archivebot, but had been suspended for some reason (id:7dv1ztme3pksk96o7m168n1l3). Also, there were some pages that cannot be reached from the top page and can be reached by adding geolog.mydns.jp/ to the head of the URL list like .
* December 31: BuzzVideo
* December 31: https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/
* December 31: , a French Flash animation hosting community
* December 31: , Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.
* December 31: V Live
* December 15: , a medical website. Its banner was on several websites like https://www.rxlist.com/ https://www.webmd.com/ https://www.drugs.com/
* December 6: , a MUD/MOO, associated with one of the very first (LambdaMOO), described on http://archive.today/2022.12.08-211249/https://muds.fandom.com/wiki/HellMOO
* December 1: , a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.
* November 30: One of the bigger remaining Czech freehosts, Sweb.cz, closed down by the end of November. )
* November 30: , a Slovenian blogging service operated by the ISP Telekom Slovenia, shut down.
* November 30: , a Japanese character art site, announced on August 18 that they will be shutting down service.https://web.archive.org/web/20220912084205/https://www.uchinokomato.me/closing
* November 1: and other "legacy website features" going away. "Launched in 2006, the forums have had over a million forum threads created and countless memories made!"
* October 30: shut down.https://web.archive.org/web/20221010220313/https://www.programmableweb.com/news/programmableweb-being-retired/brief/2022/10/10 The site started redirecting to in January or February 2023, and the domain stopped resolving in July 2023.
* October 12: The webpage host Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate
* Mid-Septemberhttps://web.archive.org/web/20220905175645/https://spectrum.chat/ to early Octoberhttps://web.archive.org/web/20221015131545/https://spectrum.chat/: , a developer community platform, died. Having been bought by Microsoft, it announced plans to go read-only in favor of GitHub Discussions on https://web.archive.org/web/20210209223456/https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5 (later pushed back to )https://web.archive.org/web/20210812201409/https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5; although the announcement promised "no 404s or lost internet history", Spectrum began redirecting to GitHub (and old links indeed became 404s) just over a year later.
* August 31: , a Japanese content distribution website (similar to Tumblr or Medium) shut down on August 31st and went read-only on July 31st
* August 15 August 31: shut down two of its sites: and 
* August 26: , a dictionary site powered by Oxford University Press (OUP) dictionaries, closed and started redirecting to Dictionary.com
* August: , a blog/website covering UK/US TV, closed on July 28 and went offline sometime in August (rather than staying online for another two months as announced)
* August: , a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"
* August 1: 
* July 21: 's 
* July 19: Gearbox Software took their offline, after putting them into Read-Only mode previously, with a 30-day window to "save any content you want to keep before it is closed".
* July 1: , a catalogue of European grey literature, shut down. (The original announcement was for "before summer" of 2021;https://web.archive.org/web/20210316095857/http://www.opengrey.eu/ however, the site remained searchable until March of 2022,https://web.archive.org/web/20220309151952/http://www.opengrey.eu/https://web.archive.org/web/20220512232919/https://opengrey.eu/ then promised that search would be "back soon" until July.https://web.archive.org/web/20220627100351/https://opengrey.eu/https://web.archive.org/web/20220701082529/https://opengrey.eu/) The catalogue remains available in MySQL format .
* June 30: , a site for sharing web content its users are reading
* June 30: , a VR model creation tool, shut down its service. Vkatsu requests to delete the VR models created by Vkatsu and posted on other sites after the service is shut down.
* June 12: , a Spanish-language imageboard, will shut down (after going read-only on May 31).
* June 3: 
* June 1: , a furry website, shut down.
* May 31Actually stayed online until at least November: , a bulletin board from the early 2000s
* May 31: a Japanese news site stopped updating its website on March 31.
* May 31: Japanese blog service will shut down.Subdomain of each websites are consists of "*.goat.me".
* May 13: The Win Raid Forum shuts down.
* May 1: and shut down but stopped updating on March 31.
* May 1: will be retired.
* April 27: , a Japanese community service shut down at 15:00 (JST).
* April 14: , a Finnish-language forum run with Xenforo, is closed by its parent company.
* April 13: — "Starting on May 24, we will begin the process of closing the forums first by turning Categories to Read-Only. You will no longer be able to post on the forums, but you will have access to all your posts and see all Categories as you normally would. You will have 30 days to save any post contents you wish to keep once the forums are closed. On July 6, we will start archiving smaller, less populated Categories. At this time, you will no longer be able to access these Categories. You will be able to continue conversations on our official Bethesda Discord Server and various game-related Servers." This will also remove comments on Bethesda.net Mods. — "Does this impact comments on Bethesda.net Mods? Yes, mod comments are powered by the forums, and will also be shut down. Authors are encouraged to list their social channels or personal Discord server in their mod descriptions. This way, they can continue to engage with players in their preferred online spaces. General mod discussion is welcome on our official Discord servers." Mod comments disappeared early (before 21 June); most of the forums had vanished by 8 July, but some parts remain as of 14 November.
* March 31: , a biomedical research discovery platform.
* March 31: 
* March 31: , a Japanese web host, shuts down all its free and some of its paid hosting. through Google Translate
* March 31: and its Developer Story companion
* March 31: , a Japanese web hosting service shut down. Some people are working on collecting URL lists .
* March 31: 
* March 28 March 21: 
* March 22 March 31: 
* March 14: , a social networking site for sex workers, shut down.
* March 13: , the Americas Origami Shop.An email to customers states, "The website will remain active until Sunday, March 13, and starting March 14, visitors will be redirected to the robust European store for all of your origami shopping needs (www.origami-shop.com)."
* March 11: Feneas and https://git.feneas.org/feneas/association/-/raw/master/comms/dissolving-the-association-2022-01-09.txt
* March 10: Radikal.ru, a Russian image host, shut down.https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/
* March 1: , a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines
* March 1: Feneas , , , , , and (Joindiaspora) instances. ("On or soon afer" that date for everything but Diaspora) https://git.feneas.org/feneas/association/-/raw/master/comms/dissolving-the-association-2022-01-09.txthttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/f605e81053c3013ae6b9002590d8e506
* March 1: , a site hosting user art, shut down. 
* February 9: , a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): Pinger, a Polish blog host, shut down.Notice on homepage
* End of January: RoyalFlare, a popular Touhou Project game replay site up since 2007, stopped uploads on January 3rd and "all contents will be deleted at the last day of January 2022", which seems to have happened.
* January 31: Humble's video game subscription service discontinues Linux and macOS support
* January 31: , a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.
* January 31: 
* January 31: All TechnologyGuide sites and forums
* January 31: , a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.
* January 28 (publicly announced to be an unspecified time in January): 
* January 17: , a German technology forum, went read-only and removed almost all usernames.
* January 5: BlackBerry World shut down.
* January 3: , a German internet and telecom forum, shut down (after more than 20 years).
* January 3: shut down.
=== 2021 ===
* Unknown: Hardware manufacturer Realtek discontinued its FTP, originally under www.realtek.com.twhttps://web.archive.org/web/19980530132641/http://www.realtek.com.tw/cp/download.htm, then under ftp3.realtek.com.tw and later ftp3.realtek.com.
* December 31: LG shut down the "LG Mobile Developer website".https://web.archive.org/web/20211205154032/https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060
* December 31: Reddit Gifts was taken down after its final gift exchange..
* December 31: iTunesU 
* December 31: will shut down. The forums have been made read-only as of October 12, while the wiki was made read-only on November 1. As of November 12 the wiki data has been used to set up a new wiki at .
* December 31: , a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.https://web.archive.org/web/20211213184025/https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/
* December 30: , a podcast hoster
* December 29: was shut down in less than a day of announcement due to Hong Kong police raids and arrest of key people.
* November 30: The official website of "i-mode", Japan's feature-phone IP connection service, shut down.https://web.archive.org/web/20211205154032/https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060
* November 10 until December 13: YouTube gradually removes dislike counts
* December 7: Royal Games, website owned by King (creator of Candy Crush) will be shutting down.
* End of November: Channel 9 from Microsoft will be partially migrated over to Microsoft Learn 
* November 1: 
* November 1: . Website closed down, Twitter account remains active. 
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host shut down.
* October 31: shut down.
* October 31: shut down.
* October 30Announced for 1 November, suddenly disappeared two days early November 1: DemoDrop
* October 22 ca October 13: 
* October 21Announced for July, vanished on 2021-10-21 July: CodePlex's read-only archives will be shut down.Banner on as of 2021-02-02, added in late January per Wayback Machine snapshots
* October 21: Weather Underground discontinued its webcam hosting and deleted the webcam data.
* October 15Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14: shut down.
* October 13Announced for 5 November with public API access, then suddenly shut down early November 5: Social news aggregation site 
* October 12: YouTube removed the all remaining Discussion tabs on channel pages, affecting channels with 1,000 or fewer subscribers as well as channels which have reached more than 1,000 subscribers within the past week.
* October 7: Niconico shut down its blog service Blomaga
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL shut down all its hosting.https://web.archive.org/web/20210331084204/https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/https://web.archive.org/web/20211022053942/https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/
* September 20 "after September": YouTube will discontinue video attributions pages, which are believed to be the last page remaining on the site that used the old, pre-polymer layout.
* SeptemberAnnounced for August, went into 'Maintenance' on 13 or 14 September and later started returning a closure notice page August: Supercell, the company behind Clash of Clans and other mobile games, shuttered its , having made them read-only in June.
* SeptemberBetween 13 September and 18 September July: is subsumed into , and its website is shut down.Javascript popup on (or any other non-home page)
* September 13: Google Drive files shared before this date via link-sharing became inaccessible except to logged-in users who have already viewed the file.https://support.google.com/a/answer/10685032https://www.theverge.com/google/2021/6/23/22548007/youtube-google-drive-security-link-sharing
* September 10 (09:00 UTC): Forum of 
* September 6: 
* September 5: , a porn site owned by MindGeek
* September 1: , a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.
* Late August to Mid-October: , a Russian furry community that has existed since 2006, finally died. Its shutdown was originally announced for 1 November 2020; a community effort to save the site managed to raise enough money to keep it running for almost another year, but ultimately could not afford to repair the server.https://web.archive.org/web/20211019011521/https://furnation.ru/
* August 31: , an educational website with various myths and legends and their supporting animations
* August 20: , AI platform for data scientists
* August 2: , a Dutch fashion magazine, shut down its main site. , also slated to shut down in the original announcement, received an indefinite reprieve and are still online as of .
* AugustAnnounced for 30 April, but website stayed online without changes until August April 30: 
* ca. July 30: The Center for Election Science's is planned to become read-only and will shut down around 1 Jan 2021. Discussions about transferring it to the community instead failed. A successor forum by the community is being launched at . The was also deleted.
* "mid-2020": Microsoft will retiredMSDN and TechNet in favour of their new Q&A platform.
* July 29 or 30: Microsoft's Windows Community shut down after 4 years of operation.
* July 27: nk.pl, a Polish social network active since 2006, shut down.https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/zamkniecie-serwisu-naszaklasapl/hrzlgp7,79cfc278
* July 23: Unlisted YouTube videos uploaded before January 1, 2017 were made private.https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/114633828/changes-to-unlisted-videos-uploaded-before-2017
* July (some time in July, scheduled for, July 6): Various services run by the French organization Framasoft
* July 2: Brilliant.org shut down their community section.
* July 2: Sony shut down the PlayStation Portable digital stores. (Originally, the PlayStation 3 and Vita stores were also going to shut down, but Sony backed off later and announced that those would stay open 'for the foreseeable future'.)
* June 30: ended online services. The app received an update converting it to an offline version; Union χ retained cutscenes, minigames, and player records, while Dark Road remained playable offline. (Original plans for a May 30 shutdown were delayed.)https://web.archive.org/web/20210518021246/http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152
* June 30: https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707
* June 30: Google Poly
* June 29: , a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.
* June 24 15:00(JST) : GREE, a Japanese browser games and micro blog service, shut down its PC version of its website, without carrying over the social networking functionality to its mobile version.
* June 22: Reddit purged almost a million 'dormant' subreddits.
* June 15: shut down its build services in favor of (the paid) . (The shutdown was originally announced for May 31.) Past build data will remain read-only "for an indefinite period".https://web.archive.org/web/20210507173517/https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown
* June 15: closed, deprecated in favor of .
* June 13: LibertyLand Minecraft server shuts down. The appear to already be as of June 10th EST, redirecting to a death page. The website remains accessible at for the time being. The Discord server's public channels have been archived by User:TheTechRobo at . There is also a website backup at .
* June 1: , a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013
* June: Chrome Web Store ended support for Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux.https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/changes-to-chrome-app-support-timeline.html
* May 31: , taking 18 years' worth of articles down with it.
* May 30: 
* May 24: Autodesk Tinkercad deleted data associated with accounts using social sign-in which did not log in between and .
* May 24: BT Community Webkit, used by ~1000 UK charities.https://www.btck.co.uk/Default.aspx
* May 5: , a Spanish-language video game discussion forum that amassed over 2 million threads and over 45 million posts since 2000, shut down with less than 2 days of lead time.
* May 4: Yahoo! Answers shut down after going read-only on April 20. (as of 2021-04-05)
* May 1: shut down its Bintray, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter received a reprieve and will remain read-only indefinitely.
* MayAnnounced for 'spring', disappeared between April 18 and June 2: removed , having made them read-only in late 2020.
* End of April: , a rental BBS service, shut down.
* April 30: Reverb Sites
* April: shut down. Registration was closed on February 2, and the forum went read-only on February 8. Last issue was on April 8. Website vanished before April 9.
* End of March: , which publishes many articles about Japanese pop culture, will be shut down. (actually stayed online until some point in late June)
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): Super Mario Maker Bookmark (turned out to be a few days before that)
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its .
* March 27: Texas Instruments' shut down after being read-only for a few years.
* March 17Announced for 'early 2021', disappeared between March 16 and 18: CNET ForumsForum banner text at time of writing: "As of December 1, 2020, the forums will switch to a read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available."
* March 15: Niconico deleted metadata (including title, description, view count) for deleted videos.
* March 1: Niconico deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).
* February 28: Ge.tt file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.
* February 9: The main website of the Halo franchise shut down almost 9 years after having been made read-only in March 2012.
* February 4: , official community platform for the Unity game engine 'Some features, e.g. posting new content, creating job posts, will be locked prior to this date.'
* February 1: -- a wget archive (may be incomplete) was saved here
* Late January to early April: , a collaborative story writing platform, shut down. (The shutdown was originally announced for 12 December 2019Announcement on and , then deferred on 23 November 2019 for "five years" (login required, screenshot), which evidently didn't pan out.)
* January 31: . Had a forum with ~700k threads.
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): So-net U-Page+ & 
* January 15: https://crowdmap.com/ shut down, offered paid migration of user data to their alternative service https://www.ushahidi.com/.
* January 15: Fast.io shut down for all users.The shutdown notice was visible on the login page (click the Read More link): 
* January 15: Texas Instruments' reached end-of-life.
* January 10: Parler
* January 7: Ziggo's personal webspace went down, 10 months after the official deadline of April 1.
* January 1 (0:00 CET): EURid withdrew all .eu domain names owned by UK residents who are no longer eligible to own such domains through an EU citizenship. The domains were frozen and are non-functional for one year and will then be revoked (i.e. become available for registration again) in early 2022.Prior to Brexit, only EU residents could register .eu domains. During the negotiations, the rules were changed to also allow EU citizens living abroad to own domains. However, UK residents which do not hold an EU citizenship will lose their eligibility and domains.
* January 1Actually started redirecting to sometime in February or the first half of March.: National Gallery of Art's , their legacy platform for downloading images
* January 1: Twitch Sings shut down completely and remaining recordings are removed, having started removal on 2020-12-01.
=== 2020 ===
* December 31: Adobe Flash officially reached end-of-life and disappeared quickly as it was dropped by browsers.https://web.archive.org/web/20171202123704/https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele
** , a French Flash animation hosting site, shut down, leaving only the community forums
** Sploder, a once-popular Flash-based game making website, went read-only (although the games are not playable without a Flash plugin), and shut down its forums on January 1.
** was to have shut down; however, they were ultimately able to continue operating using a Flash-sandboxing native app with no gap in service.
* Unknown July 31Announced for July 31, last WBM snapshot on [2020-10-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20201020052802/http://www.sweetbrokacik.pl/], dead as of 2021-01-04: , a Polish forum
* December 31: Endomondo, a workout tracker app with optional social networking features, shuts down. Users can contact support for a copy or portability of their data until March 31, 2021.
* December 31: Fast.io retired free accounts.Email sent to users: 
* December 31 October 1: Nagi shut down its five Estonian photo and video hosting sites , , , , and with a total of 25 TB of image and video data.
* December 31 Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com 
* December 31: The popular webcomic host Smack Jeeves shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.
* December 25: Voat was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.
* December 18: Freshlive, a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.
* December 16Announced for December 15: Yahoo! Groups
* December 15: , an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.
* December November 14Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03: 
* December 1 December 31: removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020." They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline.
* November 16 November 2019: G/O Media deleted all Kinja user pages.Date from Oppositelock Discord serverThe deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': 
* ca. November 5: 
* ca October August 31: ljplus.ru, "photos posted on the ljplus.ru service will remain available and will be displayed via links, but the ljplus.ru site will not work."
* October 31: published an announcement December 7, 2017 that the site would be decommissioned. On March 13, 2018, the site was converted into read-only mode. On October 31, the site began redirecting to the SAS Support Communities website.
* October 21: removed PS3/Vita/PSP listings from web and mobile store. 
* September 30: 's data was deleted and data exports are no longer possible. as of 2020-09-03
* September 30: NAVERまとめ (NAVER Matome)
* September 30: Samsung XR, the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.
* September 28 August 1Announced for 2020-08-01, shut down between 2020-09-27 and 2020-09-28: The Artist Union, according to emails sent to users 
* September 28: 腾讯微博 (Tencent Weibo), one of the biggest social media platforms in China with hundreds of millions of usersNotice in of the website dated 2020-09-04.
* UnknownBetween 2020-04-06 () and 2020-09-22 (discussion in #archivebot): , a discussion forum about celebrity pictures with about 482k threads and 3.56M posts as of 2019-11-12, was "closing down this month" as of late October 2019, but no date had been communicated, and the owners were open to buying offers. It disappeared sometime in 2020 along with the main site.
* September 15: shut down.
* September 9: , , and shut down. The brands are owned by G/O Media but were operated in the UK by Future plc, and the licence between the two expired.
* September 1 July 24: Many sections of related to sexuality were deleted after almost 20 years and tens of millions of posts due to a decision by the new owner.
* August: OpenStreetMap's 
* August 31: Discogs's smaller siblings , , , and all shut down.
* August 31: shut down at 11:59pm PDT.
* August 31 August 27: was originally set to shut down on August 27th, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date." The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.
* August 26 "End of July": OpenStreetMap's was retired and put into read-only mode.
* August 16: and 
* August 14: Clutch
* August 3: Microsoft removed all SHA-1-signed content from the Microsoft Download Center.
* July (unknown date): Insult.Wiki spontaneously converted from a user-contributed MediaWiki-powered wiki to what seems like a self-built mini CMS, discarding at least talk pages and page histories.Before change (2020-07-08), After change (2020-07-25); Earliest capture of new main page (2020-08-05) 
* August July 1 June 1: Bitbucket deleted all Mercurial repositories.
* July 31: Discogs's sibling site for comics, , shut down.
* July 22: Kongregate removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.
* July 22: Mixer
* July 20: Soup.io
* July 13 July 1 + "a few days more" June 6: shut down, but the forums live on under the same domain without the old discussions"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on as of 2020-06-19.
* July 10: Facebook shut down Hobbi and Lasso, its failed TikTok and Pinterest clones.
* July 5: , a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.
* July 1: 
* July 1: 
* June 30: ARM announced in January that the documentation platforms developer.arm.com/docs and infocenter.arm.com were to be retired "later this year" after migration to a new platform. On May 29, they launched the new and announced that the "full release [...] is scheduled for 30 June", at which point the old platforms would be replaced by redirects. It went down on 30 June.
* June 30: closed down on June 30, 2020 (shutdown also includes *.virtuaalitalli.fi, *.w2.fi, *.heppa.fi domains; these were aliases to the corresponding suntuubi.com subdomain)
* June 12: shut down.
* June 16: , the parent of , shut their forums down.
* June 15 June 1: 's were made read-only. The became inaccessible around the same time. The remainder of the website was also replaced by a static notice on the homepage in June.
* June "by end of March": was started back in January 2001 with the aim of providing a forum for discussing various aspects of Microsoft's Active Directory technology. 11.5k members, 49k posts, 9.5k in forum. Announced to disappear "by the end of March", it stayed online until June.
* June March 31: . The website started redirecting to sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under as of June 19.
* June 1: shut down.
* June 1: removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.
* May 30-31: https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953
* May 28: , a Japanese blog platform
* May 27: shut down.
* May 22: 
* May 19: Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.
* May 6: was slowly being destroyed by Microsoft piece by piece since the shutdown announcement in 2017 was demolished.
* April 19 June 30: The , read-only from April 3, was going to be shut down on 30 June. However, it was put into maintenance mode prematurely on 19 April around 20:15 UTC, apparently due to an unintended data leak caused by the read-only mode, and never returned after that.
* April 5 "early 2020": 
* AprilBetween and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot) January 2 December 31: IBM's 
* April 1#missitall: <@betamax> it was online in the AM of April 1st. Offline in the AM of April 2nd (those are GMT+1 times): BBC Mixital
* March, CD Baby https://store.cdbaby.com retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. 
* MarchWebsite broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between 2020-03-25 and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot): closed its forums in early January 2020, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed with 1.2 million posts
* March 16: League of Legends forums
* March 9 February 17: (superseded by and read-only since early 2017) went offline.
* February 27: (in all regions) are shutting down.
* February 3: eBookFarm ( and )
* February 1: was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.
* January 31: realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.
* January 31: , an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites
* January 31: , Canon's free cloud photo storage
* January 31: SingStar
* January 31: (GMO Media)
* JanuaryPer WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020. March 31: , a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.
* January 10: Microsoft's 3D object publishing platform Remix 3D
* January 8: 
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their , including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. 
=== 2019 ===
* December 31: 8tracks shut down but was resurrected in April
* December 31: , an Etherpad instance
* December 3 17: The legacy forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.
* December 16: 
* December 15: Plays.tv shut down.
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down , their blogging platform.
* December 14: Yahoo! Groups is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31.)
* December 11(-ish) June 28: (Assembler Games). Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. 
* December 5: YouTube made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.
* December 3: Google Fusion Tableshttps://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417
* December 2: Drawr, one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)
* December 2: Freeml (GMO Media)
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. 
* November/December: Gfycat deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.
* November 17: Apple "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.
* November 12: The platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform () on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned".
* November 1: Weatherzone Forums, an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts
* October 31: Last snapshot of taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2
* October 31: DiscussionApps
* October 31: National Geographic's Your Shot platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.
* October 31: , a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.
* October 21: picosong
* October: was hacked on and then made read-only.https://web.archive.org/web/20190103000609/https://forum.minecraftuser.jp/info/ In July 2019, it was announced that the forums would remain offline as soon as it'd break, and also that the previously announced/planned replacement forums would not be realised.https://web.archive.org/web/20190715111757/https://forum.minecraftuser.jp/info/ The site ended up dying sometime in October.
* September 30: Sony's drawing application Sketch shut down all of its online services.
* September 20: Adland (DMCA and ISP takedown)
* September 19: TinyPic
* September 1: Disqus Channels
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): Instaudio
* July 1: LISWiki
* June: closed down, taking with it over 20 million images
* June 25: NRATV
* June 12: Facepunch Forums
* June 1: GitHost
* May 31: Kanji Koohii Forum with 253,371 posts and 14,950 threads shut down.
* May 17: The mobile game Paradise Bay's servers, making the game unplayable; the forums followed one week later (May 24)
* MayAnnounced for 1 May at , actually shut down sometime between 14 and 20 May.: 99.se, Scandinavia's largest and oldest Apple forum
* May 13: All Tieba posts before January 1, 2017 were hidden by Baidu. Baidu claimed this was for a "database system upgrade". (In fact, Baidu surrendered to the CCP's harsh censorship.)
* May 13Announced for 31 March but remained online until sometime between 12 and 14 May: All Wikia-hosted Uncyclopedias
* April 28: , the first major Mastodon instance to shut down
* April 24: 
* April 10: Sola.ai
* April 2: Google+ for consumers
* April 1: Daum Agora
* March 31: GeoCities Japan
* March 31: FileTrip
* March 31: , a file and paste hoster
* March 12 February 5: Content of all free Flickr accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.
* February 15: Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home
* January 31: UOL Blogs and UOL Fotoblogs shut down.
* January 31: The rest of Wikispaces shut down.
* January 15: YouTube removed all annotations.
* January 7: UOL Forums shut down.
=== 2018 ===
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down. (Partially saved through ArchiveBot .)
* December 17: Tumblr nuked all adult content (or what their algorithms thought was adult content).
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/
* Late November or December: The OpenShot video editor's user forum was shut down.OpenShot Users Forum (from the Wayback Machine, 22 November 2018)General Error - OpenShotUsers.com (from the Wayback Machine, 4 January 2019) It was later redirected to the OpenShot subreddit.OpenShotUsers.com (from the Wayback Machine, 4 June 2019) Any posts not crawled by the Wayback Machine are lost.
* November 5: , an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.
* October 10: was taken down by the Chinese Communist Party due to high quality criticism and reactionary to communism and China.
* October: Mozilla Addons deleted all legacy addons.
* October 1: 天空部落 TIAN purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".
* September 30: TF2 Outpost and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: ZAM Network)
* September 30: Wikispaces Plus and Super Wikis closed.
* August 10: TalkTalk deleted its personal webspace.
* August 1: Tindeck permanently ceased operations on August 1st, 2018, in response to the EU considering changes to Article 13 of the European Union Copyright Directive.
* July 31: Wikispaces Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.
* 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.
* July 16: 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". ArchiveTeam archived the whole site in June 2018. It was added to ArchiveBot again in July to make sure that everything's covered: .
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ( and ).
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old Halo forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.
* May 16: Storify
* April 16: German technology discussion forum GIGA-Forum
* March 30: VocaloidOtaku.net
* March 30: Website for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)
* March 6: Bumpers.fm podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)
* March 5: 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!" "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service Republika WWW (according to emails sent out to users). 
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting Blog.pl
* February 6: Captioned.com app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)
* 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.". Many open source cartographical resources were present here.
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum Subcultura
* January: Manga hosting website Batoto
=== 2017 ===
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.
* Date unknown: 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. According to Wayback Machine, was last seen functioning normally in March 2017.
* December 15: Vidme - video sharing platform.
* December 15: CompuServe Forums
* November 30: Twitter translation center forums closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.
* 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 a new site.
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. 
* September 4: , a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on the .onion domain at first. As of July 2020, the hidden service is also unresponsive, and the site is not known to have returned to clearnet since 2017.
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.
* June 30: Eroshare, a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those Reddit links, useless...
* June 23: , a discussion community website, shut down.
* March 17: LoadAverage, a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down
* March 10: Version 2 of , a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards (), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later (), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace 
=== 2016 ===
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/
* Date unknown: According to akz, self-identified in #archivebot as a moderator of the site, Captain Luffy Forums would be closing when the hosting expired, as the owner had chosen not to renew it. It finally did so sometime after August 10th.
* Date unknown: Lots of older nin.com sub-domains (e.g. remix.nin.com, forum.nin.com) died. DNS had already been repointed but the old hosts were still online as of 2016-12-20; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.
* December 31: ex.ua was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.
* December 27: kepfeltoltes.hu, one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.
* December: started having technical problems. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017.
* November 17: suddenly shut 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."
* November 10: Nifty ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.
* October/November: Desura and , after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. 
* October 31: Twitterfeed shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend Buffer (https://buffer.com) or Dlvr.it.
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.
* October 23: Allmyvideos.net removed all videos and shut down their website for good. They claimed that this was because their site is no longer profitable enough to run and maintain the website.
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon. He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on .
* September 30: shut down.
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame Microsoft.
* August 5: Yahoo! discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. 
* July 31: , 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."
* June 27: ceased publication. "All of our archives will remain online for at least one more year." The domain expired sometime between December 2017 and February 2018.
* July 27: Portalgraphics.net has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images
* 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. 
* July 19: Webmonkey now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.
* June 11: Antimisandry.com, which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.
* June 1: Arto, the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).
* June 1: Blog.dk, Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)
* May 18: GameTrailers, after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.
* May 1: Google's Picasa Web Albums were shut down.
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.
* March 21: , a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors. It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.
* March 15: Google's Picasa was discontinued.
* February 1: notepad.cc by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) (urlteam results) More than 900 URLs.
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)
* January 25: Google Code shut down.
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell. The public-facing side was saved with ArchiveBot on 2015-10-04.
===2015===
* December 31: GuildPortal
* December 19: DumpTruck - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.
* September 30: Yahoo Pipes gets clogged up.
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile.
* August or September: cyberpunkreview.com: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.
* August 27: Blip.tv is gone in a blip.
* August 25: Blingee dies and deletes 9 years of user content.
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).
* 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. 
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.
* 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.
* 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. 
* May 31: Gitorious is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab
* May 30: Foodily recipes vanished in space void.
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.
* MayMyDaily between 5 May and 15 May, ParentDish between 29 April and 9 May: AOL shut down and .
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)
* April 30: Google Helpouts shut down.
* April 30: Grooveshark shut down due to years of copyright issues.
* April 17: Yahoo's URL shortener y.ahoo.it drops its YQL table.
* April 10: FriendFeed shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.
* April 9: Yahoo Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. 
* April 10: FriendFeed () got unfriended by Facebook.
* March 31: Trovebox got looted.
* March 31: RapidShare shut down.
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history.
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline.
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)
* March 15: Google Business Sitebuilder became a business sitebreaker.
* March 15: was cloud-offed after getting acquired by Dropbox.
* March 12: Ovi Store is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.
* March 12: Roon (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.
* March 3: Internet Centrum deletes its phpcities.
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.
* February 26: Apple crashes TestFlight.
* February 23: Odysee shuts down.
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists.
* February 13: MediaCrush got crushed.
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us.
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.
* February 3: (by AOL) is discontinued and was shut down on 17 MarchLast capture, Redirect a few hours later.
* February 3: The Unofficial Apple Weblog is officially dead.
* February 1: Molto melts away.
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.
* February 1: Inkblazers will be Inkerasers. 
* January or February: , a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.
* January: AOL Autos is shut down.
* 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.
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses.
* January 26: Brace.io has been acquired by Squarespace. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.
* January 15: vStreamers goes offline.
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost.
* January 12: Nokia Memories is forgotten.
* January 12: Gnome (Gnome Platform, formerly Interclick) and Right Media Exchange (Right Media Inc) is shutdown by Yahoo!.
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removedwikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn.
* January 2: Nokia Trailers, which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.
* January 1: tvtag was untagged.
===2014===
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.
* December 31: nRelate closed.
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.
* December 27: Yahoo! Directory shut down 5 days early.
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.
* December 23: Magneto shut down.
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.
* December 16: Google News shut down in Spain.
* December 15: Viddy and Epic, video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.
* December 15: Relay.im, bought by Kik, shut down.
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.
* December 12: ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot here (and available in the Wayback Machine).
* December 10: ZipList got zipped up.
* December 9: The Pirate Bay was raided. (Back online February 1, 2015.)
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.
* December 2: The Spearhead, a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.
* November: OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) 
* November: Jux went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.
* November 1: Easel shut down.
* November 1: Qwiki slowed down.
* October 30: Listn was shut down by Beatport.
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.
* October 11: OhLife became NoLife.
* October 1: Quizilla fizzled away. 
* September 30: Verizon Personal Web Space shut down.
* September 30: Orkut got kut, Google thankfully left a public archive.
* September 30: Yahoo! Education dropped out.
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.
* September 30: The National Atlas died.
* September 25: TwitPic shuts down.
* September 17: TuneWiki (not a wiki)
* August: Hungarian microblogging service Mommo disappeared.
* August: Blogter.hu died after long illness.
* August 31: Svpply and Want by Svpply were shut down.
* August 31: The Yahoo! Contributor Network is destroyed by Yahoo!.
* August 15: Heello said goooodbye.
* August 10: Fotopedia leaves a photo finish.
* August 5: Justin.tv shuts down completely.
* August 1: Yahoo! Voices, formerly Associated Content, is shut up by Yahoo!.
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by .
* July 31: Shortmail shut down.
* July 31: Snapdisk got snapped.
* July 31: Yahoo! Shine went dark.
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com
* July 3: (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.
* June 30: Hungarian iWiW social network closes; data not available from this date at all.
* June 30: Me2Day, a Twitter-like social network, kicks the bucket.
* June 15: Rawporter enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)
* June 1: Ubuntu One shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.
* May 20: Nintendo shut down Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).
* May 6: Userscripts.org mysteriously vanished. popped up not long after.
* April: is served a takedown notice by Oracle.
* April 30: qik.com shut down.
* April 18: Twitter Music shuts down.
* April 15: Beats shuts down MOG.
* April 14: CGHub quietly closes down. 
* 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.)
* March: Kephost.hu stepped off with half a million pictures.
* March 31: IntoNow, a Yahoo! acquisition, will ceased to function.
* March 31: Mochi Media realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.
* 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.
* March 19: Full Disclosure () is a security/hacker mailing list that was .
* March 17: doo shut down.
* March 11: Intel AppUp shut down.
* March 3: My Opera closes its member profiles.
* February: Videogum is shutting down.
* February 28: Outbox shuts down to rebuild itself.
* February 21: Yahoo! crashed Cloud Party.
* February 14: Gatsby, not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting as to what happened to the data.
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)
* January 21: DrawQuest and Canvas shuts down. moot writes his 
* Date unknown: 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. 
===2013===
* December 26: Wretch and Yahoo! Blog is closed by Yahoo!.
* December 21: 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.
* December 20: WinAmp, home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.
* December 18: Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning closes.
* December 15: Everpix, a photo-sharing service, shuts down. was saved, the rest lost. 
* December 12: Hyves closes its social network, but it's now got games!
* 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. 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: 
* November 11: Bre.ad is dead.
* November 7: Dopplr drops out from the web.
* November 1: Zapd deletes its user data from the website.
* November 1: iGoogle shuts down.
* November: BerliOS is barely alive.
* November: Bitmit, a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: 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.
* October 31: Nintendo shut down . It's should be archived in case it goes down.
* 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.
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to 
* September 30: OMGPOP shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.
* September 30: MSN TV, aka WebTV, no longer accessible.
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.
* September: Freeblog.hu closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.
* August-September: , a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.
* August 31: Jux announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013. On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.
* August 31: Rockmelt shuts down after being acquired by Yahoo!.
* August 21: Amplicate vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.
* August 20: Catch closes its doors.
* August 19: shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.
* August 9: Google Latitude shut down.
* August 5: Astrid is shut down after being acquired by Yahoo!.
* August: Chanarchive.org, a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from Yahoo! Downloads.
* July 25: Yahoo! Stars India is shut down.
* July 24: Snapjoy, acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.
* July 19: Google shuts down Alfred.
* July 9: Yahoo! Neighbors shuts down a day after it was supposed to.
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.
* June 30: Yahoo! demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.
* June 28: Yahoo! shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.
* 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.
* 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."
* June: , 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.
* April 30: Posterous, a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.
* April 30: Circalit decides in March that its prose-writing users.
* April 30: schülerVZ once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.
* 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.
* March 31: Zug.com, a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.
* March 29: Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down
* March 25: Epinions locked out its users.
* March 24: 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.
* February 28: , 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.
* February 21st: , , and all run out of lives.
* February: Regretsy shuts down.
* January 31: Do.com shuts down.
* January: , an URL shortener, has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.
===2012===
* December: , a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.
* October 29: , 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.)
* September 26: , 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).
* August 17: Ponibooru (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, 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 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.
* August: Parodius Networking, which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died
* July 30: , a data publishing platform created by was 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 that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.
* July 26: noob.hu doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.
* 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...
* June 30: Apple MobileMe, iDisk, iWeb, and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in , simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". 
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.
* April: shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.
* February: Hungarian free hosting provider stops free service as of February 2012; unknown number of pages disappeared and probably deleted.
* 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.
* Fileplanet . Already fully archived.
===2011===
* End of 2011: became a ghost of itself .
* Late October/November: by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the around in case that changes, though).
* 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: Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: 
* August/September: Google Labs closed. 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" 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 Whatsgoingonwithgoogle 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
* June 3: Forums.starwars.com: the closure of their on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) 
* June 1: Prodigy Pages shut down on June 1,2011.
* May 31: 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.
* May 24: Yahoo! has that MyBlogLog will be closed on 24 May 2011. UPDATE: Yup.
* 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.) 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.A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.
* March: shut down at the end of March.
* March 31: Yahoo! Video shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.
* 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.
* 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.
* February/June: The IRC logging service shut down. Back in 2007, it had controversially used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.
* January 17: The Sims Carnival: 
* January 1: ProHosting closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011
* 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 "
===2010===
* December 17: The will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010.
* December: was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. 
* November: 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.
* 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: isweb itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. 
* September/October: shut down at the end of September 2010.
* 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.
* May 31: essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to Portalgraphics.net
* April/May: was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. .
* March 31: Extra.hu, largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.
* March 1: , a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.
* March: , 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 , another related portal popular in Finland.
===2009===
* 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.
* 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.
 
* 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. 
* October 26: GeoCities: Shock! Repeat Offender Yahoo announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." . The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the Geocities project page for more details.
* August 31: Microsoft's SoapBox has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. . 
* 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 , and on the site that the domain masked . 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.
* August 24: Microsoft's Popfly pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.
* July 13: Yahoo! 360 announces 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.
* June 25: Imeem, a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, 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.
* June 15: 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.
* May 31: Rejaw, a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 . It's gone.
* May 21: MSN QnA Beta closed on May 21 
* April 20: , " 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. . It did.
* April 17: 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.
* March 31: It doesn't get more ironic than this: , a HP-owned online backup service, is being shut down. 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!
* March 31: Google acquired on 4th December, 2009 and immediately a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to , keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are numerous alternatives.
* March 30: 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?
* 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. 
* March 20: , "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. Things looked so promising in 2006: Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. 
* March 17: was , but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. 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.
* March 11: 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.
* March 6: , 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.
* Sometime between February 28th and March 23d: 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.
* February 28: Lycos Europe shut down their Tripod hosting service on February 28, 2009. Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. Lycos Europe is also shuttering the social networking site Jubii as of February 15, 2009. A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.
* February 27: The has shut down as of February 27, 2009. 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 .
* 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. 
* January 31: 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!
* January 28: , a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. , 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.
* January 28: ran out of money.
* January 27: Yahoo Pets was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. 
* January 17: totse.com on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror , alongside a .
* January 15: Ficlets.com (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. 
* January 15: Circavie.com (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. 
* January 14: Several Google services have shut down. Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.
* January 11: Co.mments.com closed down on January 11, 2009.
* January 9: 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.)
* January 6: Electronic Gaming Monthly has recently shut its doors. 
===2008===
* 
Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008
* October 31: (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. 
* 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. 
Other deaths of 2008
* December 31: , the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.
* December 31: , a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.
* December 27: said goodbye on December 27, 2008. 
* December 23: put away their badges on December 23, 2008. 
* December 19(?): Google Research Datasets, shut down on December 19(?), 2008. 
* December 18: Yahoo! Kickstart, a social network for college students revealed in 2007 got expelled on about December 18, 2008. 
* 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. 
* December 15: was closed on December 15, 2008.
* December 8: 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! 
* December 3: died on December 3, 2008. 
* October 31: slipped into history on October 31, 2008.
* October 29: 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. 
* September 29: ScribbleWiki wikis go offline. Apparently and they didn't have a backup.
* September 28: Yahoo! Mash, a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. 
* September 26: Uber.com was a social blog site that died. 
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.
* September 18: , Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. 
* May 21: Virtual Magic Kingdom on May 21, 2008. 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.
** Some of the more anguished fans have gotten together in various forms to recreate VMK, including , (a memorial site), and (although OpenVMK shutdown due to .)
* February 29: Stage6, a video sharing site, was shut down by DivX Inc. on February 29, 2008. 
* February 14: Think Secret was killed by Apple and shut down on February 14, 2008. 
* July 31: Social.fm couldn't stand up to Last.fm, and died. 
* May 15: Brijit.com, a news aggregation site, closed on May 15, 2008. It might be closed for good. 
* 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. 
===2007===
* October 31: Yahoo! Podcasts, a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 , was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. 
* October 23: 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. 
* September 20: Yahoo! Photos, a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos by Rohit Sud, Download Yahoo! Photos by Kent Brewster, and by 
* March 20: was March 20, 2007 and .
===2006===
===2005===
* (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 uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive.
===2004===
===2003===
* went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.
* , 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
===2002===
===2001===
* CHV.Net, aka Cyber Hippie Vision, was a video game commentary and review site which had high quality game-play videos in MPG. It was based in South Korea, on a high speed connection, was very well done, and was far ahead of its time. It might have been a top YouTube or Twitch channel, had those platforms existed. Some videos have been re-uploaded to YouTube . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN
* SixDegrees.com, a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001
* The Useless Pages (at IA)
== Frozen Solid ==
=== 2025 ===
* : has been made read-only and the community was encouraged to move to their instead.
=== 2024 ===
* : , a blog, ceased to be updated.
* : ended further publications. The publisher vows to keep the website online indefinitely, and the continue operation.
* : Sangoma (Digium/Asterisk) discontinued . Archives are promised to remain available, but the posting of new content has been disabled.http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2023-December/079080.htmlhttp://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2023-December/297250.html
=== 2019 ===
* September 6: ThinkProgress ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2024-12-27.
* June 1: 's , with over 2.2 million posts, went read-only.. Still online as of 2024-12-27.
=== 2016 ===
* 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. As of 2024-12-27, the boards were still online.
=== 2010 ===
*June 10: The Sea Slug Forum, a site centered on the proliferation and exchange of information about Sea Slugs, was put into read-only mode. This was as it's host, the Australian Museum, was unable to upkeep the costs of maintainance and hosting of the site itself (partially due to an SQL injection two years prior to it destablizing the site). The founder of the site expressed desire to find another host or some other way to get it back online, but there have been no updates provided on the site.
== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==
* Berlios.de will . The site hosts thousands of open source software projects (git, svn, bzr, mailing lists, bug tracking, etc.). Berlios is still open and they are now to keep things running.
* announced it might close on 2020-07-23 or not or merge with . On July 27, it was announced that the site would live on.
* BugTraq, computer security mailing list, was announced to shut down 2021-01-31 along with the parent site . The mailing list itself had been abandoned after it was acquired by Accenture from Symantec/Broadcom in February 2020. On 2021-01-17, a new announcement was made that BugTraq would be kept running.
* Citizendium's finances . Running a MediaWiki site is cheap and Sanger is not homeless, hence it's expected to survive. WikiTeam archives it on a regular basis.
** In late June 2020, a notice was added to the homepage that the project had failed and was going to end on 30 September. A month later, it was announced that the wiki would keep running.
* 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." In December 2009, it was announced that the "social bookmarking" site Mister Wong has acquired cli.gs and are keeping it running. All aboard the TinyURL project.
* was going to shut down when its vBulletin plan expired on , but a new owner was found.
* (owned by G/O Media) fired its editor-in-chief on 29 October 2019; the next day, it lost its entire editorial staff to resignations and stopped publishing. However, the editorial director responsible for the firing resigned, and Deadspin began publication again under a new team on 12 March 2020.
* Delicious will be . The whole team was let go yesterday - 15 December 2010. . Delicious was acquired from Yahoo! in early 2011 by AVOS however all the prior content is gone.
* , the official DuckDuckGo community forums, transitioned to their and moved all posts over from their old Zoho forum. Both are now redirecting to duckduckgo.com as of 27 August 2022.
* 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.
* is closing up shop . 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, the site has been re-acquired by them in order to prevent its proposed shuttering. On 2010-11-30, FileFront rebranded to GameFront.
* Formspring (now called spring.me) announced they'd be on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.
* Free Music Archive was set to close in November/December 2018Bijan Stephen. "The Free Music Archive is closing this month". The Verge, 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07. but remains online for now.
* GitHost announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015. However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.
* 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.
* Home of the Underdogs went under on Feb 9th. 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 . 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 
* , a major Hungarian news outlet, fired its editor-in-chief on 22 July 2020; two days later most of its editorial staff quit in protest. Index discontinued , but otherwise never stopped publishing.
* , a digital LGBTQ magazine, stopped publication in January 2019 and was to have been shut down on 21 August 2020Email sent to users: , but in fact remained online until its purchase and revival by publisher Q.Digital.
* , another outlet by G/O Media, stopped publishing on November 9, 2023, when the company laid off its staff. The website was acquired by Paste Magazine, and the website relaunched on December 11, 2023.
* JPG Magazine announced it would shut down on January 5, 2009 , but the site lives . Feel free to download the 
* , an Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went on indefinite hiatus in July 2021, but returned in March 2022.
* KeygenJukebox, which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.
* , a notorious forum that mocks "lolcows", was shut down on January 20, 2017 without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later. In September 2022 they were dropped by DDoS-mitigation site Clodflare and were forced to retreat to a Russian domain. Kiwifarms were later reported to have been dropped by their DDoS-protection there as well.
* Linux Journal: Announced on 1 December 2017 that it is ceasing publication. Announced on 1 January 2018 that it has been unexpectedly rescued.
* was going to be frozen on 1 June 2019, but was then sold instead. Online and operating as of 2022.
* 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 , who have restored the old site design and managed to draw back pretty much all the contributors. The site was purchased again, by Atari, in March 2022.
* , a large German car forum, was going to be shut down on by its owner mobile.de but was instead taken over in October 2023 by German Q&A platform gutefrage.
* shut down at May 2 2017 due to copyright problem, and .
* , speedrun marathon tracker, was planned to shut down on July 1, 2021. The creator subsequently accepted an offer to transfer management of the site so it can continue operating.
* was announced to shut down on 2020-06-09"Being leeched to hell and back while getting no thanks takes a toll on you when you think people would have the decency to do so. [...] uploading newer files to other sites too. It all creates a mindset of distrust which is where I currently am at present." except for now it won't"This is a temporary PAUSE on site closure! As stated previously I am committed to getting donated magazines scanned and released. THAT is the sole factor determining the time frame for keeping the site going as it stands today. When I have completed scanning those, and that is all I will be scanning until completion, I will review where we are at regarding membership, whether our files continue to get uploaded to other sites etc and depending on those and how I feel personally a decision will be made then around the continued existence of OGM." .
* was announced on 2021-01-05 to be shutting down on 2022-02-26. After receiving a lot of feedback from the site's users, Ben (the site's owner) reconsidered and announced on 2021-12-27 that the site would remain online.
* The (user forums and blogs) announced in October of 2021 that it would be shutting down on ,https://web.archive.org/web/20211008001634/https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html but reconsidered by .https://web.archive.org/web/20211015215047/https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html
* was set to shut down in July 2022 but was later transferred to a new owner.
* SoundCloud planned on introducing new upload limits (which would likely have led to deletions) on 9 December 2019, but reconsidered.
* StoryFire was going to shut down on 2021-02-01 but secured funding at the last minute.
* forums were going to shut down on but was then taken over by a new owner.
* was announced to shut down on 2020-07-31. It was later announced that the site would live on., added sometime between 2020-07-30 and 2020-08-03.
* TwitPic's founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.
* was going to shut down on 2022-06-23 with less than two weeks of notice. After the community got angry, they reversed their decision (for now).
* Uploadir, a free filehoster (similar to catbox), was set to shut down on 2022-12-30 after 13 years of operation. New owners were found in December.
* Video host Viddler announces in an 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.
* WebCite – 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.
* wilko (), a store that had previously gone into administration on August 10, 2023, was acquired by CDS Superstores (t/a. The Range) in September, 2023.
* Word Count Journal () 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)
* YTMND () announced plans to shut down on August 29, 2016 and eventually went offline on May 12, 2019 due to a database failure. After an "outpouring of support" the owner decided to save the site with all content restored by March 31, 2020.
== Links ==
=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===
* by Steve Baldwin. 
* is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.
* saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and preserves a selection of them.
=== Tragic ===
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=== Humorous ===
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== References ==
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