inkomtrans.r52.ru was the website of R-M Inkomtrans LLC, a Nizhny Novgorod limited liability company trading in steel wire ropes, slings, and rigging equipment. The address was a third-level domain in the Nizhny Novgorod zone r52.ru. The firm, as its home page stated, "was founded in March 2000"[1]; the copyright notice on the page had read that way since the same year — "© 2000 R-M Inkomtrans LLC"[1], and all the surviving snapshots of the home page date to 2001[1][3].
A single "about the company" page
The web archive preserved three snapshots of the home page — April 1[1], May 19[2], and December 3, 2001[3], and the text on them matches word for word: over eight months the page did not change by a single word. The window title was structured as a menu item — "R-M Inkomtrans | about the company"[1], but no other sections made it into the archive.
The content fit into a dozen lines. The company presented itself as a newcomer to the market: "The firm has been on the market only a short time," the home page stated, and intended "to become a leading enterprise in the Volga District for the production and sale of slings and steel wire ropes"[1]. Its specialization was described as "the field of professional devices for lifting, securing, and bundling cargo"[1]. Neither a postal address, nor a phone number, nor a visitor counter appears in the surviving snapshots — the page displayed no contact details at all[1][3]. At the bottom stood the developer's credit: "Web design by Teamoty Brane Inc."[1].
What the firm offered
The product range was listed as one long enumeration: steel wire ropes of various diameters and GOST standards, textile slings, slings made of steel wire rope and chain slings, turnbuckles, hooks, thimbles, chains, links, clamps and grabs, chain hoists and jacks, shackles, tow and towing cables for automobiles, ropes made of synthetic and natural fiber, packaging materials, fasteners, and tools for packing and bundling[1]. Closing the list was an item that fell outside the rigging line-up — "pools and containers made of polyvinyl chloride film"[1].
A separate block offered assurances of quality. The products, as the home page stated, met "the level of Russian and world standards" and were "licensed by the State Chemical Inspectorate of Russia"; all goods manufactured and sold came with technical documentation, quality certificates, and safety data sheets, and manufacturing was carried out, among other things, "to the customer's own sketches"[1].
Its place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet
The site belongs to the most numerous layer of the early Nizhny Novgorod Internet — corporate business-card sites made once and never updated again. It entered our census from the nn.ru catalog's directory, where the catalog's description repeated word for word the phrase from the home page itself — about "professional devices for lifting, securing, and bundling cargo".
No trace of the site taking part in the public life of the network survives. It does not appear in our preserved samples of the Counter.nn.ru rating, and no counter readings were recorded for it. It is absent from the final results table of the 2004 Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day vote[4] — though by that time the page had already gone three years without an update.
How it closed
The last snapshot in the web archive is dated December 3, 2001[3]; in total the archive preserved only three visits to the home page, all within the single year 2001. The site's further fate cannot be traced from archival data: by the time of our census the domain inkomtrans.r52.ru no longer existed. Of the enterprise that had set out "to become a leading enterprise in the Volga District"[1], what remains online is a dozen lines of description and a list of goods.
Sources
- web.archive.org — Home page, 2001 (archive)
- web.archive.org — Home page, May 2001 (archive)
- web.archive.org — Home page, December 2001 (archive)
- web.archive.org — Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day voting results, 2004 (archive)