DMOZ
| Formerly |
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|---|---|
Type of site | Web directory |
| Available in | 90 languages, including English |
| Dissolved | March 17, 2017 |
| Successor(s) | Curlie.org |
| Parent | AOL |
| URL | www.dmoz.org (Archived 2018-01-19 at the Wayback Machine) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 90,000 |
| Launched | June 5, 1998 |
| Current status | Closed |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported, Open Directory License |
DMOZ or DMoz (stylized dmoz in its logo; from directory.mozilla.org, an earlier domain name) was a multilingual open-content directory of World Wide Web links. The site and community who maintained it were also known as the Open Directory Project (ODP). It was owned by AOL (now a part of Yahoo! Inc) but constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.
DMOZ used a hierarchical ontology scheme for organizing site listings. Listings on a similar topic were grouped into categories which then included smaller categories.
DMOZ closed on March 17, 2017, because AOL no longer wished to support the project. The website became a single landing page on that day, with links to a static archive of DMOZ, and to the DMOZ discussion forum, where plans to rebrand and relaunch the directory were being discussed.
As of September 2017, a non-editable mirror remained available at dmoztools.net, and it was announced that while the DMOZ URL would not return, a successor version of the directory named Curlie would be provided. DMOZ, ODP, and Curlie were considered synonymous by 2018. Curlie was well established by 2022, using the hierarchy from DMOZ.