DMOZ

Open content directory of Web links DMOZFormerlyGnuHoo (1998)NewHoo (1998)Open Directory Project (1998–1999)Type of siteWeb directoryAvailable in90 languages, including EnglishDissolvedMarch 17, 2017; 9 years ago (2017-03-17)SuccessorCurlie.orgParentAOLURLwww.dmoz.org (Archived 2018-01-19 at the Wayback Machine)CommercialNoRegistrationOptionalUsers90,000LaunchedJune 5, 1998; 28 years ago (1998-06-05)Current statusClosedContent licenseCreative 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 sta