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Neocities @neocities.org · 18/06/2026

Very happy/relieved to announce that we have finished moving the domain to a better DNS registrar for our needs, which should ensure that the short outage we had two weeks ago will never happen again. This should be the most exciting thing we will ever have to tell you about the DNS registrar.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 05/06/2026

UPDATE: The domain has been restored. We are working on checking everything and making sure no issues were caused by the outage, but the front site and subdomain sites should be working again. Thanks for your patience.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 05/06/2026

Please accept our apologies for this outage. We will be doing everything in our power to restore the domain and ensure this doesn't happen again.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 05/06/2026

The internet is increasingly becoming dangerous to operate on because of crazy laws and orders like this. A bunk legal complaint in one country, which we aren't even based in, aimed at one alleged infringement issue, has just been converted into infrastructure-level damage against an entire platform

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Neocities @neocities.org · 05/06/2026

We are already on the phone with an enterprise domain management company and will be moving to a different registrar soon, but we can't even transfer the domain out of Namecheap until they remove the suspension, so either way we're still stuck for now waiting for Namecheap to do something here.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 05/06/2026

At this point, we have no control over this, only Namecheap does, and Namecheap are the only people that can fix this mistake and unsuspend the domain. Until then, there's nothing we can do to restore service to the subdomain sites and the front site (the custom domain sites still work).

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Neocities @neocities.org · 05/06/2026

So the legal firm that sent the complaint -and- us are both trying to get Namecheap to unsuspend the domain, but as of this writing, they have not responded to any of the requests and we are trying all means to get them to escalate this to a higher priority.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 05/06/2026

Amazingly, we were somehow able to contact their office even though it's midnight in New Delhi, and they acknowledged that taking down neocities.org was a mistake and not what they wanted, and told me they are going to email Namecheap to try to get them to restore the site as well.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 05/06/2026

Our domain, neocities.org, was NOT listed in the provided court order document, but Namecheap took the report at face value and suspended the domain anyways, and told us "We have to resolve the issue with the complainant in order to have the domain unsuspended." As in, a legal firm in New Delhi.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 05/06/2026

Early this morning, we received an email from @namecheap.com that the domain neocities.org was being suspended because of a court order from New Delhi, India (a jurisdiction we don't operate in), which was for an unrelated court order about a sports streaming site on a different domain.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 05/06/2026

We're working on the DNS outage. It's not technical - someone is trying to legally attack us and Namecheap took down the domain. More details later.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 20/05/2026

Things seem to be stabilizing, so we've re-enabled the front site. We'll continue to monitor. Thanks for your patience.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 20/05/2026

Our upstream block storage is having issues, we're taking the front site down temporarily as a precaution. Will update this thread when things are running again.

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.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Neocities is back next week on Tuesday night, May 19! Join us at .zip (Rotterdam) or at Sickhouse (Enschede) to work on your personal site. More info: zipspace.nl/agenda

Poster for Neocities Coding Night featuring pink letters, and old school computer icon and a broken smartphone surrounded by error messages

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Neocities @neocities.org · 11/02/2026

Update on Bing: The block seems to have been removed! Sites are slowly starting to re-index. Special thanks to @ashleybelanger.bsky.social for this really helpful article and visibility. We now have a direct contact at Microsoft we're communicating with to see how this can be prevented again.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 28/01/2026

Bing has blocked neocities and all user subdomains from its search index. We’ve spent months trying to resolve this through official channels and gotten nowhere. Until this gets resolved, we are recommending that people do not use Bing. Blog post with details: blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01...

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Neocities Is Blocked by Bing

Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...

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Neocities @neocities.org · 14/08/2025

Seriously can't believe how cool the stuff y'all make is, just mind blowing.

two-reeler.neocities.org

Two-reeler

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Neocities @neocities.org · 11/08/2025

Please flood this thread with weird old public access shows

wordman.neocities.org

Sinister Cinema

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Neocities @neocities.org · 09/08/2025

How do you center a div? Wrong answers only

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Neocities @neocities.org · 08/08/2025

She said thanks it's already saved her life (holding the servers up with duct tape, in retrospect not a great idea)

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Neocities @neocities.org · 08/08/2025

Not shut down, just switched to HTTP based verification using a file on your site instead of the DNS system. We had to deprecate the old DNS system unfortunately. Sent out emails but apparently not everyone got them, apologies.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 08/08/2025

You may have not got the email, we had to deprecate the DNS version of the verifier. The HTTP based one works now so you can use the .well-known/ file and upload the verification from bluesky directly on your web site. Sorry about the issues here.

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metaroom @metaroom.fun · 04/08/2025

metaroom.neocities.org neocities site update, talking about my music philosophy a bit

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The web site of metaroom

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html energy @htmlenergy.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

HTML Day in 🌸🏙️ Seoul on Saturday, August 2, 6-9pm KST Organized by New Order & After New Order afterneworder.com/htmlday

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html energy @htmlenergy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

HTML Day 2025 is made possible by the generous support of @neocities.org here to bring back the creativity and free expression to the world wide web that made it great. ❇️ neocities.org

Neocities is here to bring back the creativity and free expression to the world wide web that made it great.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 31/07/2025

HTML Day 2025 is this Saturday! If the idea of coding HTML in nature with fun and creative people appeals to you, see if there's a local event happening near you (or create one!)

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HTML Energy

HTML Day is on August 2nd, 2025!

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Neocities @neocities.org · 29/07/2025

No problem, sorry about the delay and issues. The old purger worked beautifully for 100k sites but was starting to strain at 1 million sites. It was also a "fire and forget" design, the new one is stream based with a message queue, so it's more accountable and is less likely to miss purge jobs.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 29/07/2025

Also wanted to dispel a rumor: it was never an issue with DNS or how busy a site is, it was always the purger. The purger doesn't use DNS. If for some reason a purge doesn't happen, try changing the file slightly (add a space, etc.) and saving it. But this tempfix shouldn't be necessary anymore. 🤞

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Neocities @neocities.org · 29/07/2025

Today we launched a more robust cache purger that should reduce the number of rare/occasional "missed" site updates. It's been well tested, but when things change bugs can happen, so if a site file isn't updating let us know, and the usual apologies in advance for any issues related to this.

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html energy @htmlenergy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

On Saturday, August 2nd, 2025, we'll be gathering in places around the world to write and celebrate HTML. Join us ❇️ html.energy/html-day/202...

html.energy

HTML Energy

HTMl Day is on August 2nd, 2025!

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Neocities @neocities.org · 23/03/2025

As an april fools joke? Honestly I have no idea.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 22/03/2025

Should we implement XMPP and BitTorrent next?

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Bret Comnes @bret.io · 21/03/2025

Happy 900! deploy-to-neocities helping over 900 of you deploy personal websites to the real web on @neocities.org. Onward and upward 🚀

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Neocities @neocities.org · 06/02/2025

Update: Should be working now.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 06/02/2025

FYI, WebDAV is currently not working, a fix is in progress. When we migrated to new code the old WebDAV code became deprecated, and it's kind of a crazy protocol so it's taking longer than expected. Apologies.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 01/02/2025

We're also huge fans of password managers over here, you should check them out!

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Neocities @neocities.org · 01/02/2025

Don't tell them I'm hiding in the garage.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 01/02/2025

"The purge" of people that have been logged in for 7 years with a password they wrote on a burger wrapper in their car with ketchup, and they have no idea which of the 500 disposable email accounts they used for the password reset.. trust me I haven't been looking forward to this 😅

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Neocities @neocities.org · 01/02/2025

Alright, it's done, thank you.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 01/02/2025

Nothing bad happened - this is a planned upgrade to the session cookie encryption so it's stronger, and also to make it easier to revoke logins if sites get hacked. Apologies for the inconvenience!

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