417 boards answered on the last sweep, 13 did not, and 20 answered with an error, timed out twice, or sent visitors somewhere else entirely. The median board on file is 7 days old, so this is attrition measured against a wave that has barely started.
6 of the dead had reported taking money before they went — between them $106. Their pages stay here. That reading is now the only record that those boards had rules and a price at all.
By cohort
Whether shipping in the first rush helped:
- registered in the first 48h — 263 boards, 91% still answering
- registered days 3–7 — 161 boards, 96% still answering
- registered after week one — 0 boards, 0% still answering
How they fail
- LIVE
- 407 boards
- GUARDED
- 10 boards
- UNREACHABLE
- 8 boards
- ERRORING
- 7 boards
- GONE
- 6 boards
- OFFLINE
- 6 boards
- REDIRECTED
- 5 boards
- PARKED
- 1 boards
Failure is rarely dramatic. Domains stop resolving, hosts answer with an error, and pages quietly become someone else’s redirect. Only one board on file has reached the final stage and been parked for sale.
A board behind a bot check counts as up here, not as verified — it answered, but nothing on it could be read. The full status taxonomy.