generated: '2026-09-17'
method: probed
source: >-
  Live DNS + HTTP probes of every host this record knows, run 2026-09-17, cross-checked
  against registry release dates (packages/fauna-packages.yml) and the End-of-Service facts
  already recorded in plans/fauna-plans-pricing.yml and rate-limits/fauna-rate-limits.yml
  by the 2026-05 pass.
provider: Fauna
providerId: fauna
status: decommissioned
description: >-
  Fauna, Inc. announced End-of-Service in March 2025 and shut its hosted database down on
  2025-05-30. This enrichment pass re-verified that independently rather than taking the
  earlier artifacts' word for it: every service host the record carries is now NXDOMAIN,
  the apex answers DNS but refuses HTTPS connections, and plain HTTP on the apex issues a
  cross-domain 301 to faunarobotics.com — an unrelated robotics company. There is no
  callable Fauna API left and no Fauna-operated web surface left.
versioning:
  scheme: path-segment
  detail: >-
    The Core HTTP API versioned in the path (/query/1, /feed/1, /schema/1/...). FQL itself
    versioned as a major generation — v4 (deprecated) and v10 (current at shutdown) — with
    a separate driver family per generation.
  frozen_at: 'FQL v10 / Core HTTP API v1'
deprecation_policy:
  published: false
  detail: >-
    No deprecation-policy page survives to point at, and no Sunset or Deprecation (RFC 8594)
    response headers can be observed because no endpoint answers. The FQL v4 drivers were
    marked deprecated in their own READMEs and on their registry pages, which is the only
    deprecation signalling that is still reachable.
status_page:
  published: false
  url: null
  detail: status.fauna.com returns NXDOMAIN (2026-09-17); no replacement status surface exists.
sla:
  published: false
  detail: Historical SLAs were tied to the Business/Enterprise tiers; no SLA document is reachable.
end_of_service:
  announced: '2025-03'
  shutdown: '2025-05-30'
  evidence:
  - claim: Every Fauna service host no longer exists in DNS.
    probe: 'dig A docs.fauna.com / db.fauna.com / graphql.fauna.com / dashboard.fauna.com / support.fauna.com / status.fauna.com'
    result: NXDOMAIN (no A record) on all six
    checked: '2026-09-17'
  - claim: The apex resolves but will not complete a TLS connection.
    probe: https://fauna.com/
    result: 'DNS 3.33.139.32; connection timed out after 20s (curl exit 28, HTTP 000)'
    checked: '2026-09-17'
  - claim: The apex domain now forwards to a different company.
    probe: http://fauna.com/
    result: '301 -> https://faunarobotics.com/ (200, title "Fauna Robotics | Capable, Safe, Fun Robots for Everyone")'
    checked: '2026-09-17'
  - claim: No first-party package has shipped since before the shutdown.
    probe: registry metadata for npm/pypi/maven/nuget/go/rubygems
    result: 'newest first-party release 2025-02-05 (npm fauna 2.5.0); shutdown 2025-05-30'
    checked: '2026-09-17'
retired_surfaces:
  note: >-
    Recorded here so the history is not lost when the dead pointers are removed from
    apis.yml. Each of these was a real Fauna surface; each is now unreachable.
  surfaces:
  - url: https://docs.fauna.com/fauna/current/
    role: Documentation
    status: NXDOMAIN
  - url: https://docs.fauna.com/fauna/current/reference/http/reference/core-api/
    role: APIReference
    status: NXDOMAIN
  - url: https://docs.fauna.com/fauna/current/reference/streaming/
    role: Documentation (Event Streaming)
    status: NXDOMAIN
  - url: https://docs.fauna.com/fauna/current/learn/cdc/
    role: Documentation (Event Feeds)
    status: NXDOMAIN
  - url: https://db.fauna.com
    role: API base URL (Core HTTP API)
    status: NXDOMAIN
  - url: https://graphql.fauna.com
    role: API base URL (GraphQL)
    status: NXDOMAIN
  - url: https://dashboard.fauna.com
    role: Console
    status: NXDOMAIN
  - url: https://support.fauna.com
    role: Support (named in the harvested OpenAPI info.contact)
    status: NXDOMAIN
  - url: https://fauna.com/pricing
    role: Pricing
    status: 'HTTPS 000 (timeout); HTTP 301 -> faunarobotics.com'
  - url: https://fauna.com/terms
    role: TermsOfService (named in the harvested OpenAPI info.termsOfService)
    status: 'HTTPS 000 (timeout); HTTP 301 -> faunarobotics.com'
surviving_surfaces:
  note: >-
    What a member of the public can still reach. These are the only live first-party Fauna
    artifacts left, and they are all on third-party platforms rather than Fauna hosts.
  surfaces:
  - url: https://github.com/fauna
    role: GitHubOrganization
    status: 200
    detail: '"Fauna, Inc.", 26 public repositories, org record last updated 2026-08-26.'
  - url: https://github.com/fauna/faunadb
    role: SourceCode (database engine)
    status: 200
    detail: >-
      The FaunaDB server itself, made public 2025-04-29 and last pushed 2025-05-03 — days
      before the shutdown. 179 stars. It carries NO LICENSE file, so GitHub reports the
      license as NOASSERTION: the source was released but not, on this evidence, licensed.
  - url: https://github.com/fauna-labs
    role: GitHubOrganization (experimental)
    status: 200
    detail: '"Fauna Labs", 104 public repositories.'
  - url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/faunainc
    role: LinkedIn
    status: 200
  - url: https://rubygems.org/gems/fauna
    role: Packages
    status: 200
    detail: All first-party packages remain installable on every registry; see packages/.
successor:
  identified: false
  note: >-
    fauna.com now forwards to faunarobotics.com, but Fauna Robotics is a DIFFERENT COMPANY
    that acquired or was assigned the domain — not a rebrand or continuation of Fauna, Inc.
    the database vendor. No successor is asserted here, and none should be inferred from the
    redirect: that is an identity decision and it is not one an enrichment pass may make.