generated: '2026-09-04'
method: probed
source: >-
  Live probes of the Apollo Education Group / University of Phoenix public surface, 2026-09-04.
note: |
  There is no API lifecycle to document because there is no published API. What this file
  records instead is the lifecycle of the COMPANY, which is the material fact a reader of this
  profile needs: the corporate entity behind the name "Apollo Education Group" has been renamed,
  and its former domain no longer serves.
versioning:
  policy_published: false
  scheme: null
  url: null
deprecation:
  policy_published: false
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  url: null
  note: >-
    No RFC 8594 Sunset or Deprecation header was observed, and no deprecation policy page
    exists. NO Deprecation pointer is emitted.
sla:
  published: false
  url: null
status_page:
  published: false
  probes:
    - url: https://status.phoenix.edu/
      status: 000
      note: >-
        The hostname resolves (74.120.224.210) but neither HTTPS nor HTTP completes a
        connection. Nothing is served, so this is not a status page and NO StatusPage pointer
        is emitted.
      checked: '2026-09-04'
corporate_lifecycle:
  entity_status: renamed
  detail: >-
    Apollo Education Group was taken private in 2017 and the group has since been renamed
    Phoenix Education Partners, which filed for a US IPO (see
    press/2026-05-25-04-apollo-backed-phoenix-education-partners-files-for-us-ipo.md in this
    repository). University of Phoenix remains the operating institution and phoenix.edu remains
    the live surface this profile is built from.
  domain_evidence:
    - url: http://apolloeducationgroup.com/
      status: 301
      redirects_to: http://apollo.edu/
      note: The former corporate domain now 301s to apollo.edu.
      checked: '2026-09-04'
    - url: https://apollo.edu/
      status: 000
      note: >-
        The redirect target does not serve — no TLS handshake and no HTTP response. The old
        corporate web presence is effectively gone.
      checked: '2026-09-04'
    - url: https://www.phoenixeducationpartners.com/
      status: 403
      note: >-
        The successor corporate site is live but behind a Cloudflare managed challenge
        ("Just a moment..." interstitial). Live, not dead — we do not evade challenges.
      checked: '2026-09-04'
    - url: https://www.phoenix.edu/
      status: 200
      note: The operating institution's site. This is the surface every artifact here came from.
      checked: '2026-09-04'
  dead_pointer_removed:
    - url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/apollo-education-group
      status: 404
      note: >-
        Confirmed dead with a browser User-Agent. This is not a bot block — the same request
        against https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-phoenix/ returns LinkedIn's 999
        bot-challenge status, which is what a page that EXISTS returns. The
        apollo-education-group company page returns a real 404. The LinkedIn pointer was removed
        from apis.yml rather than left to rot.
      checked: '2026-09-04'