forest-paintball.ru was the website of the Nizhny Novgorod paintball club "Forest Paintball" (in the directory listing of Nizhny Novgorod sites nn.ru the club was listed as "Nizhny Novgorod Paintball Club FOREST"). According to the web archive, the first snapshot of the domain is dated November 22, 2002, and the last one — January 28, 2022[2]; the domain no longer exists.

What the site looked like and what it offered

The home page opened with the heading "Paintball club FOREST PAINTBALL — play paintball with us!" and the navigation "home | prices | games | information | contacts"[1]. The menu listed the sections "About paintball", "Rules of the game", "Equipment", "Playing fields", as well as game formats — "Individual games", "Scenario games", "Big games" and "Training"[1]. As the home page stated, the club "plays almost every weekend" and "guarantees excellent quality and low prices", and the cost of taking part in a game started "from 500 rubles"[1]. The only contact given was the email address play@forest-paintball.ru; no phone number or postal address of the club appears in the surviving snapshots[1][2]. At the bottom of the page was the web studio's signature — "made by studio 'Ecohost'"[1].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site was part of the directory listing of Nizhny Novgorod resources nn.ru (section "/rub/"), where it was listed under the name "Nizhny Novgorod Paintball Club FOREST". In the surviving samples of the Counter.nn.ru rating and in the voting lists of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day, forest-paintball.ru does not appear — this only means the absence of data in the available samples, not a confirmed absence of the site from the actual rating of those years (more on the methodology in the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating). The site is part of the broader picture of small niche projects of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet — modest club pages oriented not toward visitor counters but toward taking requests by email.

How the site closed

The content of the home page barely changed over the years: the January 2022 snapshot repeats the same text as the March 2016 snapshot, down to the developer studio's signature and the email address[2]. The last snapshot recorded by the web archive is dated January 28, 2022[2]. As of the compilation of this entry, the domain forest-paintball.ru no longer exists; there is no information in the material about the club moving to another address or domain.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2016 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2022 (archive)