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nick65go:
On 27/06/2022 I tried to access https://www.dillo.org/. but its website is gone, with the message "This domain is pending renewal or has expired. Please contact the domain provider with questions". Same for https://hg.dillo.org/dillo/
Oh boy, sic transit gloria mundi.

PS: We still have the web archive machine (for now) - to travel back in time. Or the https://github.com/orsenthil/dillo
But the lesson is we can NOT relay on "internet" to be "forever" free/online/accessible for all mortals. Rob Landley (toybox designer) knows this very well in a painfully way.

gadget42:
https://www.landley.net/index.html

and just for fun(Eric S. Raymond!):
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html

20220628-2131-modified-added fun link

CNK:
Yeah it's been gone for a while, all this month at least. A similar thing happened a couple of years ago so it might come back. The domain has been renewed (by someone) in spite of that message.

Unfortunately the Wayback Machine didn't grab all of the mailing list archive.

I don't see very much actual development going on in any of the various GitHub versions.

gadget42:
visited https://www.dillo.org/ on 20220924-0130am.
the website resolved but definitely has a different(new?) look.
at the bottom of the homepage there was a link to a "buying guide"
felt like it had been copied from somewhere else(didn't try to verify that hypothesis).
link: https://www.dillo.org/most-secure-laptops-guide/

the download webpage has a link that resolves back to itself?
https://www.dillo.org/download.html

there is a search box on that webpage so gave that a try with "jorge"
https://www.dillo.org/?s=jorge&submit=Search

looks like all the results for that search show the same date(AUGUST 19, 2022)
it is a reasonable assumption that the website came back online around that timeframe.

also visited the FAQ:
https://www.dillo.org/FAQ.html

especially noted:
https://www.dillo.org/FAQ.html#q10
https://www.dillo.org/FAQ.html#q11

there were references to a mailing list but that webpage just resolves back to itself:
https://www.dillo.org/MList.html

also note that from the "source repository" webpage:
https://www.dillo.org/source.html

the referenced website did NOT resolve(http://hg.dillo.org)-20220924-0130am

did NOT attempt to establish contact with any of these:
https://www.dillo.org/authors/jcid-email.html
https://www.dillo.org/authors/jviksell-email.html
https://www.dillo.org/authors/webmaster-email.html

also noted that the "author" of the "secure laptops" piece (xr9va) wasn't listed:
https://www.dillo.org/authors/xr9va-email.html
(Nothing found - Apologies, but no entries were found)

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20220924-0217am-modified-fixed a typo

CNK:

--- Quote ---looks like all the results for that search show the same date(AUGUST 19, 2022)
it is a reasonable assumption that the website came back online around that timeframe.

--- End quote ---

Yes, I noticed it back up again in late August. I was hoping things like the mailing list (which unfortunately wasn't much archived by the Wayback Machine) and source code repo might pop up again later, but it seems that it's just someone's half-hearted effort.

Although the domain didn't technically expire, it seems like the domain hosting service re-sold it to someone. They've just crudely copied bits of the old website into a Wordpress template (which ironically doesn't work properly with Dillo's limited CSS support), and now they've started using it as their own blog. I expect their reason is that the dillo.org domain probably gets high search engine rankings.

The fact that after a month they still haven't even fixed the download link for Dillo shows that they don't really care about the browser itself, unfortunately.

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