generated: '2026-09-05'
method: probed
source: >-
  Live DNS (8.8.8.8, 1.1.1.1, 9.9.9.9) + .io registry RDAP
  (https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/classif.io) + the Internet Archive
  CDX index for classif.io (http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=classif.io&matchType=domain).
description: >-
  Classif.io publishes no versioning policy, no deprecation policy, no SLA, no changelog
  and no status page — and cannot, because the whole surface is gone. The classif.io
  domain is no longer registered, so the entire API programme is retired by domain lapse
  rather than by an announced sunset. This file records the retirement and the evidence
  for it; it does not credit Classif.io with any published lifecycle document.
status: retired
retirement:
  kind: domain-lapse
  announced: false
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  last_observed_live: '2025-03-21'
  last_observed_live_evidence: >-
    Internet Archive capture 20250321033905 of https://www.classif.io/ returned HTTP 200.
    It is the most recent live capture in the CDX index; the only other 200 captures are
    20250319032413 and 20240418194851, and the index holds no capture of any kind after
    2025-03-21.
  first_observed_gone: '2026-09-05'
  first_observed_gone_evidence: >-
    NXDOMAIN for classif.io and www.classif.io from 8.8.8.8, 1.1.1.1 and 9.9.9.9 with no
    NS records published for the zone, and HTTP 404 "Object not found" from the .io
    registry operator's RDAP endpoint for the domain object itself.
  window_note: >-
    The surface went away at some point between 2025-03-21 and 2026-09-05. The exact date
    cannot be established from public evidence and is not asserted here.
  reversible: false
  reversible_note: >-
    A lapsed .io registration is re-registrable by any party, so the domain returning to
    service would not by itself mean this company is back. Treat any future content at
    classif.io as unattributed until re-verified.
versioning:
  scheme: null
  mechanism: null
  docs: null
  notes: No versioning policy was ever published on a page that survives in any public archive.
deprecation:
  policy_url: null
  changelog: null
  sunset_header: false
  notes: >-
    No RFC 8594 Sunset or Deprecation header can be observed, and no deprecation policy
    page exists. The retirement was silent.
sla:
  url: null
  public_uptime_target: null
  notes: No SLA published.
status_page: null
status_page_note: >-
  No status page. No StatusPage or Deprecation pointer is emitted in apis.yml, because
  the provider publishes neither — only a Lifecycle pointer to this measured record.
deprecated_products:
  - name: Classif.io Fashion Style Classification API
    aid: classif-io:fashion-style-classification-api
    superseded_by: null
    status: retired
    evidence: >-
      Its page, https://www.classif.io/fashion-style-classification-api/, was a real page
      linked from the homepage navigation in the 2025-03-21 archive capture, but the
      Internet Archive holds no capture of that URL or of any other classif.io subpage —
      the whole archived footprint of the domain is the homepage plus a 2018 robots.txt
      404 — so what it documented cannot be recovered and is not reconstructed here.
deprecated_operations: []
operator_note: >-
  The 2025-03-21 archive capture of the homepage carries the line "Made by Kindwise" and
  credits the same team's Plant.id, Insect.id, Mushroom ID and crop.health models, so
  classif.io was a Kindwise-operated property. kindwise.com still answers HTTP 200. That
  is an attribution finding only: nothing from Kindwise's own surface is imported into
  this record, because a Kindwise contract would belong to Kindwise, not to Classif.io.
evidence:
  - url: https://www.classif.io/
    status: 0
    result: DNS resolution failed (NXDOMAIN, curl exit 6 "Could not resolve host")
  - url: https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/classif.io
    status: 404
    result: registry object not found — domain not registered
  - url: http://web.archive.org/web/20250321033905/https://www.classif.io/
    status: 200
    result: last archived live capture of the homepage
  - url: http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=classif.io&matchType=domain
    status: 200
    result: 18 rows total, none newer than 2025-03-21, no subpage ever captured
  - url: https://www.kindwise.com/
    status: 200
    result: operator named on the archived homepage is still trading
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com