DMOZ

Also known as dmoz.org, ODP, Mozilla Directory, GNUHoo, Open Directory Project, directory.mozilla, NewHoo, Netscape Open Directory

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.

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DMOZ was a free, volunteer-maintained web directory that organized links to websites into categories, much like a library catalog for the internet. Though owned by AOL, it was built and kept up-to-date by a community of unpaid editors who believed in making web information openly accessible to everyone.

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Key facts

Website.name: DMOZ
Website.logo: DMOZ logo.svg
Website.logo_alt: "dmoz" in white on a green background with each letter in a separate square
Website.screenshot: Dmoz - Open Directory Project.PNG
Website.url: www.dmoz.org () <!-- { {URL
Website.commercial: No
Website.type: Web directory
Website.registration: Optional
Website.language: 90 languages, including English
Website.num_users: 90,000
Website.parent: AOL
Website.current_status: Closed
Website.content_license: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported, Open Directory License
Website.successor: Curlie.org

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.dmoz.org
Image: Dmoz - Open Directory Project.PNG
Motto: Humans do it better

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Commons category: DMOZ
inception: 1998-01-01
dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 2017-03-14
Alexa rank: 78263
official blog URL: blog.dmoz.org
web feed URL: blog.dmoz.org/rss.xml
social media followers: 6732

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Contents

History
System failure and editing outage, October to December 2006
Competing and spinoff projects
Logo history
Content
Maintenance
License and requirements
RDF dumps
Content users
Policies and procedures
Controversy and criticism
Ownership and management
Editor removal procedures
Blacklisting allegations
Hierarchical structure
Software
Search
Editor forums
Bug tracking
Interface
ChefMoz
Growth
See also
References
External links

DMOZ used a hierarchical ontology scheme for organizing site listings. Listings on a similar topic were grouped into categories which then included smaller categories.