generated: '2026-08-12'
method: probed
source: >-
  DNS resolution of api.virool.com + live HTTPS probes of virool.com; no versioning,
  deprecation, SLA or status-page document is published by Virool
summary: >-
  Virool publishes no API versioning policy, no deprecation policy, no SLA and no status
  page. The material lifecycle finding is retirement, not policy: the API host Virool's
  developers were historically pointed at, http://api.virool.com/api/v1, no longer exists
  in DNS. The marketing site remains live and the Rails application still serves signup
  and login, but the developer-facing surface behind it is gone.
api_surface:
  state: retired
  historical_base_url: http://api.virool.com/api/v1
  historical_base_url_source: >-
    Third-party API directory listings (ProgrammableWeb, RapidAPI) that catalogued the
    Virool API. Virool's own site carries no reference to it today.
  probe:
    host: api.virool.com
    dns_status: NXDOMAIN
    checked: '2026-08-12'
  note: >-
    Recorded as an observed absence. No Virool-published deprecation notice, sunset date,
    or migration guide was found for this host — the endpoint simply stopped resolving.
versioning:
  policy_published: false
  scheme: null
  note: No versioning policy is published on virool.com.
deprecation:
  policy_published: false
  sunset_header: unknown
  deprecation_header: unknown
  note: >-
    No RFC 8594 Sunset/Deprecation header behaviour can be observed because no API host
    resolves. No `Deprecation` pointer is emitted in apis.yml.
status_page:
  published: false
  probed:
  - url: https://status.virool.com/
    dns_status: NXDOMAIN
  note: >-
    No status page exists on a Virool-controlled host. No `StatusPage` pointer is emitted
    in apis.yml.
sla:
  published: false
company_lifecycle:
  note: >-
    Third-party sources (Crunchbase, LinkedIn, PitchBook) record Virool as having been
    acquired in 2017. This is recorded as context only — it is not first-party evidence
    and no Virool-published statement of the acquisition was found on virool.com.
  site_state: live
  site_copyright_year: '2026'
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.virool.com/about
    status: 200
    note: Footer reads "©2026 Virool All Rights Reserved"; page content is unchanged from the 2015-2016 era.
x-evidence:
  fetched: '2026-08-12'
  checks:
  - target: api.virool.com
    result: NXDOMAIN
  - url: https://www.virool.com/about
    http_status: 200
  - url: https://virool.com/pricing
    http_status: 404