coolwood.narod.ru — the website of a Nizhny Novgorod firm that sold log-house kits and timber; it was hosted in the free zone of the "Narod.Ru" service and was listed in the nn.ru directory in the "/rub/" section[1]. According to the web archive, the site existed from April 5, 2001 to June 1, 2022 — 21 years[1][2].

What the site looked like and what it offered

The earliest surviving snapshot, from April 2001, shows a simple page with a menu of "home," "about us," "prices," "banyas," "houses," "custom log houses," "components and timber," "contacts," and a signature reading "2001 mmalder"[1]. By 2022 the site had grown considerably: the home page was titled "Sale of log houses and timber. Log houses of any size. Turnkey assembly and installation of dachas, banyas, and cottages," and the header displayed the address www.coolwood.narod.ru along with a "Partners" section[2]. The navigation included "home," "about us," "products" (with subsections "banyas," "houses," "cottages," "timber," "gallery"), "sample contract," and "contacts," as well as a guestbook[2]. The home page featured a poll, "What are you planning to build in the near future?", with the options "House," "Banya," "Cottage," and "Don't know yet"[2]. According to the home page, the firm offered standard designs for dachas and banyas measuring 6×6, 6×8, and 9×9 meters, "a preliminary design and floor plan," as well as "a detailed calculation of materials and work at each stage of construction"; each project could be built "from logs (regular, calibrated, or milled round) or from timber beams"[2]. It was separately noted that delivery and installation of log houses were carried out "as far as Moscow and the Moscow region"[2]. At the bottom of the page was a "©2002 mmalder" notice and a mention of the hosting platform — "Hosting by uCoz"[2]. No phone numbers or postal addresses appear in the surviving text of the home page — it only mentions the possibility of getting in touch "by email or by phone," without giving the contacts themselves[2].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site was listed in the nn.ru directory, in the "/rub/" section[1]. No data on the site's rating or vote count is recorded in the surviving samples of Counter.nn.ru or in the results of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day — this only means the information is missing from the available part of the archive, not that the site itself lacked visitors or votes at the time. For more on how such a sample is constructed, see the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating and the general overview in the article on Nizhny Novgorod Internet.

How it closed

There is no information in the material about a domain transfer or the reasons the site stopped operating: the last snapshot in the web archive is dated June 1, 2022[2]. The subsequent fate of the domain coolwood.narod.ru cannot be traced from the available data.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2001 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2022 (archive)