So, apparently in the end of September Elisa’s customers got a message saying that Elisa's website space will be shut down “by the end of the year” due to low usage and outdated technology.[1] Exact date/time is apparently not stated, based on customers talking about both Dec 31 and Jan 01.
Many of the sites under those domains probably went down already in 2020, when Elisa moved all mail boxes and website spaces included in broadband contracts without additional price under separate paid email service costing 36€/year.
The official support site talks just about services connected to Elisa email accounts which are all supposed to be at http://www.elisanet.fi/personal.name
[2], but the discussion on support community has quote from support chat confirming the discontinuation of all saunalahti.fi-hosted websites too.[1] The format for URLs of these pages is supposed to be http://www.saunalahti.fi/~username
. Customers having their websites at kolumbus.fi are also reporting their websites will be closed[3]. Those urls seem to be of format http://www.kolumbus.fi/personal.name
Domains listed in tags of a customer forum FAQ message about Elisa email service[4]: netti.fi, nic.fi, kolumbus.fi, elisanet.fi, kotikone.fi, netikka.fi, kotiposti.fi (just email).
Following sites are going to be closed, according to customers:
netti.nic.fi/~username
[5]- under the same IP address are:
www.nic.fi/~username
gamma.nic.fi/~username
- under the same IP address are:
www.netti.fi/~username
www.kotikone.fi/username
The support page documents that if public_html does not contain index.htm or index.html, a not found page is shown. Completely similar page appears when the user does not in fact exist. So 404 at domain.tld/username
doesn't necessarily mean that nothing in that webspace exists, so checking for index may not be ideal strategy for the purpose of limiting requests to paths gathered from Wayback CDX, Common crawl or similar.
Google site operator results for relative scale (search with bigger results (www ot not www) retained):
site:kotikone.fi | ~743 results |
site:nic.fi | ~6,260 results |
site:netti.nic.fi | ~963 results |
site:gamma.nic.fi | ~2,550 results |
site:www.saunalahti.fi | ~26,600 results |
site:kolumbus.fi | ~96,800 results |
site:www.elisanet.fi | ~21,500 results |
site:www.netti.fi | ~1,870 results |
UPDATE 2022-11-29T15:50: More domains from support forum thread announcing discontinuation of various old SMTP/POP/IMAP servers[6]
domain | host operator google results |
---|---|
personal.eunet.fi | ~209 results |
www.personal.eunet.fi | ~49 results |
wwnet.fi | ~925 results |
www.dlc.fi | ~4,710 results |
*.pp.fi (these seem to be company websites though) | ~948 results |
www.nettilinja.fi | ~108 results |
UPDATE 2022-11-29T16:06: probably also sci.fi (~5,520 results)
- a b https://yhteiso.elisa.fi/muut-elisan-palvelut-29/elisan-kotisivutilan-lopetus-1-1-2023-523653
- ^ https://elisa.fi/asiakaspalvelu/aihe/sahkoposti-kotisivut/ohje/kotisivutila/
- ^ http://www.kolumbus.fi/sami.nordlund/
- ^ https://yhteiso.elisa.fi/saehkoeposti-68/mikae-on-elisa-saehkoepostipalvelu-520819
- ^ http://netti.nic.fi/~tomk/mina_ja_minusta.html
- ^ https://yhteiso.elisa.fi/saehkoeposti-68/ennakkotieto-elisan-vanhat-saehkopostipalvelimet-paeaettyvaet-521195?postid=674989#post674989
The list for kolumbus.fi has also been started. Of the ~40000 possible usernames listed, about 780 of them actually had an index page (though some of those index pages were also actively updated, such as http://www.kolumbus.fi/Jarpen/ which was last updated in October, and mentions http://www.escstats.com/ as its new location (which was updated today)). I got that number by looking at the dashboard after it finished going through the main list and started looking at subpages and images, but the actual list of working usernames won't be available until after the job finishes.
Oh, I also forgot: here is my source list of URLs for kolumbus.fi, and here's the list for elisanet.fi. And here are the archivebot viewer pages for elisanet.fi and for kolumbus.fi, though they aren't ready yet.