status request for www.wildcontacts.com

I would like to check on the submission status of the website www.wildcontacts.com, which is a special effect contact lens site. For a few years this site was accepted into DMOZ's category http://dmoz.com/Shopping/Niche/Vampires/ , but was recently dropped from the category. I noticed at the same time, that some other contact lens sites were also dropped, and I was hoping that we were just being moved to a more appropriate category like http://dmoz.com/Shopping/Health/Vision/Contact_Lenses/Novelty/ , but as far as I can tell www.wildcontacts.com has been completely dropped from the DMOZ directory. The site has recently been redesigned, and have tried submitting to DMOZ category http://dmoz.com/Shopping/Health/Vision/Contact_Lenses/Novelty/ but have noticed that the category does not have an editor. I tried contacting the editor above that particular category, and found out that the editor is no longer there. I am writing to the forum to try to find out why www.wildcontacts.com was dropped and for what particular reason, or if by some chance it was dropped by mistake. I would appreciate any information or advice that you could give me to help get this site back into the directory.

Thank you for your time,
DLH

What is the difference between what your site offers and what

http://www.coloredcontacts.com

offers?

It was removed as the company is already listed in http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Health/Vision/Contact_Lenses/ under one of it's other urls.

Thank you for your quick response. Wildcontacts.com and Coloredcontacts.com are selling different contact lens products for very specific types of customers. www.wildcontacts.com sells only the special effect contacts lenses. Special effect contact lenses are specific for Halloween, for people who want to have a strange weird look, and for theatrical purposes. Since the sub category exists in DMOZ http://dmoz.com/Shopping/Health/Vision/Contact_Lenses/Novelty/ , we designed wildcontacts for these types of customers. www.coloredcontacts.com does not sell these types of special effect contact lenses.

Thank you,
DLH

I don't edit there, but the two sites link to each other, and wildcontacts' contact address is at coloredcontacts. They look like one site spread over two domains to me.

I really appreciate your forum and quick responses. Yes, I recently had to link the two sites together because www.wildcontacts.com was dropped by DMOZ. I would rather keep them totally separate from each other, but wildcontacts.com is no longer getting any Internet traffic since it was recently dropped from DMOZ. Yes, Colored Contacts LC owns both sites, but they are not mirrored sites, which I know is a no-no by DMOZ's guidelines. Each website focuses on different customers, is selling different products, and belong into a different DMOZ categories. According to the DMOZ description for http://dmoz.com/Shopping/Health/Vision/Contact_Lenses/Novelty/, the description says, "This category is for stage and special effects Contact Lenses only. Corrective vision lenses may be found in other parts of the Directory." Since this is only what www.wildcontacts.com is selling, we would like wildcontacts.com to be included into this sub category. On the other hand, www.coloredcontacts.com is selling the corrective vision lenses and colored contacts lenses, and therefore is in the appropriate category, http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Health/Vision/Contact_Lenses/. I am aware that DMOZ does not like mirrored sites, but I thought you could have more than one site as long as it had a different focus, belonged in a different category and sold completely different products. If it is helpful, I can unlink the sites and remove any reference such as the address to coloredcontacts.com, so that wildcontacts.com is standing alone. My original thinking was that it was better to be upfront about both sites belonging to Colored Contacts LC. But if this is in violation, I will remove it. I appreciate all your help.

Again, thank you for time.
DLH

Well -- even without the linking, the contact addresses (both E-mail and snail mail) for the two companies are the same -- so, the editors seem (to me) to be justified in choosing to consider it one site.

If, for example, one site were to have contact lenses, and the other one were to be on philosophy of science, then separate listings seem warrented.
As the two functions are related, the listing seems appropriate where it is.

We don't list seperate themed sites for the same company. If you want to drive traffic to wildcontacts you have done the right thing by linking the two sites together. That way in search engines like Google you will get the credit for the incoming links from your other site.

You have to think about it like this. We can't list themed sites from the same company. Shopping is already backed up with unreviewed. If we allowed companies to submit 5, 10, or 20 different sites spanning there inventory just looking for a listing we would never be able to catch up. Of course, this is just my interpretation of why this guideline is in place. That rational makes sense to me, but there are probably many other reasons. In any case, as we have said, we do not list themed shopping sites for the same company. We just list one site, whichever one we pick (usually the most encompassing).

thank you for explaining DMOZ's guidelines for themed sites. I really appreciate all your help. DLH