generated: '2026-08-26'
method: probed
source: >-
  Live DNS and HTTP probes on 2026-08-26 across every Sendle host in this repo,
  plus contemporaneous public reporting of the company's collapse and liquidation.
provider: sendle
title: Sendle API Lifecycle — Decommissioned
status: retired
summary: >-
  The Sendle API is gone. Not deprecated, not sunset with a migration window —
  withdrawn from DNS. As of 2026-08-26 api.sendle.com, developers.sendle.com,
  sandbox.sendle.com, status.sendle.com and try.sendle.com all return NXDOMAIN
  from the sendle.com authoritative nameservers. Sendle cancelled all deliveries
  on 2026-01-11 and the company entered liquidation. The five OpenAPI definitions
  in openapi/ are now an archival record of an API that can no longer be called.
lifecycle_state:
  api: retired
  contract: archived
  docs: gone
  status_page: gone
  sandbox: gone
  as_of: '2026-08-26'
company_status:
  state: liquidation
  ceased_operations: '2026-01-11'
  detail: >-
    Sendle, an Australian carbon-neutral parcel aggregator founded 2014, merged in
    2025 with US-based FirstMile and ACI Logistix to form Fast Group. The Fast Group
    board resolved to wind the business down on 2026-01-10; deliveries were cancelled
    2026-01-11; the entity entered liquidation, with McGrathNicol appointed as
    liquidators. Reported by ABC News, SmartCompany, Internet Retailing (AU) and ACS
    Information Age.
  note: >-
    Company status is recorded here because it is the ONLY thing that explains the
    lifecycle evidence below. It is not a substitute for the probes — every claim
    about a Sendle host in this file was verified by our own DNS/HTTP request.
evidence:
- surface: production API host
  url: https://api.sendle.com/api/ping
  status: 0
  result: NXDOMAIN
  checked: '2026-08-26'
  note: >-
    Verified against 8.8.8.8, 1.1.1.1, 9.9.9.9, 208.67.222.222 and directly against
    the authoritative ns1.dnspackage.com, which answers SOA-only for this label.
- surface: developer hub
  url: https://developers.sendle.com/reference/welcome
  status: 0
  result: NXDOMAIN
  checked: '2026-08-26'
  note: >-
    Last Internet Archive capture 2026-03-17 (HTTP 200). Continuously archived from
    2023-12 through 2026-03, then the host left DNS.
- surface: status page
  url: https://status.sendle.com
  status: 0
  result: NXDOMAIN
  checked: '2026-08-26'
- surface: sandbox host
  url: https://sandbox.sendle.com/api
  status: 0
  result: NXDOMAIN
  checked: '2026-08-26'
- surface: regional marketing / pricing
  url: https://try.sendle.com/en-us/pricing
  status: 0
  result: NXDOMAIN
  checked: '2026-08-26'
- surface: changelog
  url: https://developers.sendle.com/changelog
  status: 0
  result: NXDOMAIN
  checked: '2026-08-26'
- surface: corporate website
  url: https://www.sendle.com
  status: 200
  result: alive-but-empty
  checked: '2026-08-26'
  note: >-
    Still serves an 18,276-byte client-rendered marketing shell (title "Sendle |
    Simple, affordable parcel delivery for small business") with a sitemap.xml
    whose lastmod is 2026-08-24. Server-rendered HTML contains no body text. The
    domain now sits on ns1-4.dnspackage.com (admin@syrahost.com), registrar
    Dreamscape Networks, registry expiry 2027-01-19 — a different DNS operator
    from the one that served the API hosts.
- surface: GitHub organization
  url: https://github.com/sendle
  status: 200
  result: alive
  checked: '2026-08-26'
  note: 38 public repos, all forks/exercises, most recent push 2025-12-02. No API client.
versioning:
  scheme: unversioned-path
  detail: >-
    Derived from openapi/ servers[] and paths: every operation lived under
    https://api.sendle.com/api with no version segment and no version header. There
    was no published version negotiation mechanism.
  evidence: openapi/sendle-orders-api-openapi.yml (servers[0].url)
  source: derived
deprecation_policy:
  published: false
  sunset_header: unknown
  deprecation_header: unknown
  detail: >-
    No deprecation policy is recoverable — developers.sendle.com is gone. Sendle used
    the OpenAPI `deprecated` flag in its own specs, but never published an RFC 8594
    Sunset/Deprecation header policy that we can evidence.
deprecated_operations:
- api: sendle-products-api
  operationId: getQuote
  method: GET
  path: /quote
  summary: Get A Quote (Deprecated)
  deprecated: true
  replacement: getProducts (GET /products) and postProducts (POST /products)
  source: derived from openapi/sendle-products-api-openapi.yml
  note: >-
    The only operation Sendle ever marked deprecated in a machine-readable way. No
    sunset date was declared.
sla:
  published: false
  note: No SLA document is recoverable; the status page host no longer resolves.
status_page:
  url: https://status.sendle.com
  status: 0
  live: false
  note: >-
    NXDOMAIN as of 2026-08-26. The StatusPage pointer previously carried in apis.yml
    was removed — a pointer to a host that does not resolve is a false claim.
support:
  email: api@sendle.com
  reachable: unknown
  note: >-
    Mailbox deliverability not probed (sendle.com publishes SPF but no DMARC). The
    company is in liquidation; treat as unmonitored.
migration_guidance:
  detail: >-
    There is no first-party migration path. Integrators who were on Sendle have moved
    to other aggregators. This repo retains the contract for archival and comparative
    purposes only — DO NOT generate integration code against it.