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List of various bad links and other issues encountered.

Open FoxinTale opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments

Noticed multiple bad links that led nowhere, as well as a few other sites of note, and decided to begin making a list. Others are welcome to comment any sites not listed that fall under the listed "categories", or if a site listed here is not agreed with. Open to corrections, feedback, and additions.

Websites which returned a 404 error:

  • Ark | https://ark.com/landing
  • Snoop Station | https://snoopstation.com/index.html
  • Speedy Hunt (Domain is for sale, also triggers uBlock Origin's blocking filters.) | https://speedyhunt.com/
  • TerraServer | https://www.terraserver.com/view
  • OnionTree | https://onionltd.github.io/
  • Gitleaks (Certificate expired, and leads to the domain being for sale) | https://gitleaks.com/
  • DMOZ (Not 404, 400, but close enough) | http://www.dmoz.org/
  • Carrot2 (Exists on archive.org, but unsure how reliable that one is) | http://search.carrot2.org/stable/search
  • Filemare (No 404, but domain is expired) | http://filemare.com/en-us
  • Economics Search Engine | http://ese.rfe.org/
  • SimilarSites (Also on archive.org, reliability unknown) | http://www.similarsites.com/browse
  • Google Correlate (Archive.org, reliability unknown) | https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/
  • The Investor - Africa (Returns a 401 error based off the little I understood) | http://theinvestormailinglist.com/recent-reports/
  • Mint Portal | http://mintbusinessinfo.com/version-2015129/portal.serv?product=mintportal
  • LeadFerret.com (Domain for sale) | https://leadferret.com/search
  • Enigma | https://enigma.com/publicdata

Websites which returned "DNS Probe Possible", but never loaded:

  • Breach or Clear| http://breachorclear.jesterscourt.cc/
  • DNS Black Hole List (Ironically) | http://www.tcpiputils.com/dns-blackhole-list
  • eVerify | http://www.everify.com/
  • EntityCube | http://entitycube.research.microsoft.com/
  • Weleakinfo | https://search.weleakinfo.com/
  • Large -scale Scene Understanding challenge | http://lsun.cs.princeton.edu/2016/
  • Moose Roots Death Records | http://death-records.mooseroots.com/
  • Moose Roots Birth Records | http://birth-records.mooseroots.com/

Websites which return "CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT":

  • ProfileEngine | http://profileengine.com/
  • Additctomatic | http://addictomatic.com/
  • IceRocket | http://icerocket.com/
  • Yobi3D - 3D Model Search | https://www.yobi3d.com/#!/
  • Market Visual | http://www.marketvisual.com/

Websites which require payment to do anything, defeating the purpose of "freely available information":

  • Pipl | https://pipl.com/
  • Spokeo People Search | http://www.spokeo.com/
  • SearchBug | https://www.searchbug.com/#pageTop

Sites which require registration now (Not too huge of an issue, just need the little "R" appended to them):

  • Dehashed | https://dehashed.com/
  • Intelligence X (Shows short preview before requiring registration, and when registered, requires payment) | https://intelx.io/
  • Twingly (Discontinued searching, and now require registration to use for a "trial") | https://www.twingly.com/search
  • Orbis Directory | https://orbisdirectory.bvdinfo.com/version-2016121/OrbisDirectory/Companies
  • D&B Company Search (Register for a "free trial") | http://www.dnb.com/
  • XING | https://www.xing.com/

Other

  • The New Ultimates (uBlock's blocking filters activate, and redirects a blank page)| http://www.newultimates.com/
  • SkypeGrab (Same as The New Ultimates) http://ww7.skypegrab.net/?z
  • Scanless (Is a tool for Python, shouldn't it have the "T" appended?) | https://github.com/vesche/scanless
  • Notey (Is now a website builder instead of a search engine) | https://www.notey.com/
  • Report Linker ("request a demo" only) | https://www.reportlinker.com/
  • BotBot.me (Unsure of this one, but the original service doesn't seem to be there.) | https://botbot.me/
  • Yippy (Went straight to my default search engine) | http://yippy.com/
  • MediaBugs (Returns a 500 error, but also on archive.org) | http://mediabugs.org/

FoxinTale avatar Apr 29 '21 03:04 FoxinTale

Nice. Really great work, I hope someone sees that & change the links.

Papadope-zz avatar Sep 18 '21 11:09 Papadope-zz

should have asked #272 to be added here

rpmm24 avatar May 31 '22 00:05 rpmm24

ProfileEngine work

r0ysen avatar Aug 18 '22 18:08 r0ysen

Amazing work. I should have caught this sooner. Updated and removed the entire list.

s0lray avatar Jan 14 '24 04:01 s0lray