portalnn.ru — a domain listed in the nn.ru directory under the name "Nizhny Novgorod Auto Portal" with the description "Overview of the car market, automotive market news, car prices, tuning"[1]. The stated theme was the Nizhny Novgorod car market — yet not a single surviving web archive snapshot of the domain confirms the existence of such a site: the front page is either empty or belongs to an entirely different business.
What the web archive caught
The earliest snapshot, from February 22, 2001, recorded not an auto portal but a single placeholder line: "Welcome to Nizhny Novgorod portal" — no menu, no text, no sign of any content[2]. Judging by this snapshot, at that point the domain was either only being prepared for launch or was being used by the registrar as a placeholder for a future Nizhny Novgorod portal.
By 2021 the domain was occupied by "PortalNN," a company producing packaging and container products since 2010. According to the home page, the site's menu consisted of the sections "About the Company," "Cradles," "Self-assembly cardboard boxes," "Plywood and wooden containers," "Container fittings," "Laser engraving," and "Plastic injection molding" and "News"; the contact information given was the phone number +7-906-355-40-22 and the address info@portalnn.ru, and the page had a callback request form[3]. Neither the text nor the contact details of this version of the site show any connection to Nizhny Novgorod — the phone number is a mobile one, without the 831/8312 area code, and no production address is given on the page.
Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet
The only trace of the auto portal in Nizhny Novgorod data is the nn.ru directory listing, where the domain was given a rating of 1.9[1]. This figure is comparable to numbers from the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating Counter.nn.ru, but the material contains no counter samples of its own for this domain. The Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day data records no votes for portalnn.ru — this indicates the domain's absence from the surviving samples, not a confirmed zero result. Aside from the mention in the Nizhny Novgorod Internet directory, the material contains no other traces of the site's presence on the local network.
How it closed
The last snapshot of the domain known from the material is dated March 9, 2022, and still showed the packaging manufacturer's site, with no mention whatsoever of Nizhny Novgorod or the automotive theme[3]. Available data indicates the domain later redirected to ruweb-nn.ru; the stated auto portal, it appears, never received any real content — all that remains in the archive of the declared theme is the name and description in the nn.ru directory.
Sources
- portalnn.ru (archive)
- web.archive.org — Home page, 2001 (archive)
- web.archive.org — Home page, 2021 (archive)