Thanks for the insight brycen.

I understand why they did that because if the site transitioned to a domain park or a different owner then you wouldn't want to reinstate it automatically.

However, retaining a simple hash code that represents the content of the original indexed page could be enough to let it automatically be reinstated if the hash code matches when it comes back online.

Oh well, they'll probably never fix it now, so many years later.

I'm not sure anyone really uses it anymore as it's so Web 1.0. ;)

Would it kill them to at least make it a RWD site (Twitter Bootstrap anyone?) so it's at least mobile friendly at relevant to this decade?

I used DMOZ quiet heavily to get ips of the sites hosted were they were, on to get the IP ranges of Hosting companies that host those sites to block the ranges. That was about it.

DMOZ Bot comes in and gets 403 for a while now for one of the sites listed there. No human Traffic from that listing except occasional link builder, and guess what; from India...

I remember when we got the listing for this site(8 years ago or so). I was very proud, really proud. I thought we were recognized by... Now days, the only way in my book, DMOZ, is utilized is for DUMPS of data, scape source etc.. Someone dumped the data on 400 sites that got indexed about 2 years ago, nasty stuff when it come 2 Google..

... Currently 2 sites in our category page are KAPUT, several month now. Landing Page from the Host.


Recently:
IP: 65.44.192.153
UA: dmoz_scraper/1.0

I could go on but..,

@brycen, I appreciate you taking the time to share you knowledge.

Thus: a site that gets de-listed by RoboZilla (the dmoz quality check tool), effectively gets treated as a brand new listing.

Note that AOL recently turned over significant amount of the dmoz code over to the community, and if you look at the dmoz blogs you'll see announcements of new software releases. The dmoz editor community, however, is very similar to that of prior years and decades: there is a small core of senior dmoz category and meta moderators who exert a high degree of control, often overriding edits of less senior contributors.

While 89,255 editors are listed on the dmoz home page, the number of active editors is considerably smaller. Detailed statistics on dmoz internals are available to dmoz editors, but rules prohibit publication or sharing of the results. The public RDF dumps however are the source of much analysis, and could be analyzed by anyone interested.

Thanks for your notable insights.

I would hate to see DMOZ go down.

While 89,255 editors are listed on the dmoz home page, the number of active editors is considerably smaller.

Yeah, they need to require all dmoz editors to prove they're still breathing, or at least answer an email every 6 months or something.

Yeah, they need to require all dmoz editors to prove they're still breathing, or at least answer an email every 6 months or something.

Your privileges expire after four months of inactivity.

Your privileges expire after four months of inactivity.

Glad to hear that, I finally got a site listed on there after several years of submitting about once a year. I think it's in a deeper sub-category than the one I always aimed for though. I just assumed the editor was MIA.