Site Removed from ODP??

Hi

I know you can no longer ask for a site status check and this is not one, and if this question is not allowed then please accept my appologies.

However! My website www.thewhizzkid.co.uk had been listed in
http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Uni.../Business_and_Economy/Computers_and_Internet/
for many years.

I have just come along today, to find that it has been removed, now we are currently designing a new website, and the homepage says that, this was to be launched shortly. Was our listing removed because of this?

I just don't feel its is fair that my listing is removed after it had been there so many years.

Any advice would be appreciated

Thanks

I know you can no longer ask for a site status check and this is not one...

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Actually, it is.

As a general comment, though (I haven't looked at your specific situation nor would I if I could), an under construction site *shouldn't* be listed until it is no longer under construction...so any editor coming across such a site would most likely unreview it.

I see so basically I would of been better off leaving some sort of website up there.

That means then that when the site is finished I will have to start the submission process again

(Thanks for your quick reply by the way)

In general, not specific to your site:

We hate to lose decent listings, so a website that suddenly turns into an under construction message is removed from the public gaze but not usually discarded entirely.

An editor will normally recheck it some weeks later, relisting it if it's back online and still has useful and unique content. If it hasn't, it may well go into the bit bucket at that point.

Listings aren't some sort of reserved slot I'm afraid; they're merely links to useful working websites.

I see so basically I would of been better off leaving some sort of website up there.

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You know, I've always wondered why web site owners pull their sites offline completely while they're doing a redesign. Surely you'd want potential clients to see your old site and content until your new one is ready for unveiling? You must lose a number of potential clients by having your site completely unavailable for so long -- yours has been under construction for over a month now (judging by Google's cache).