kulebaki.wp-club.net is a domain that was listed in the nn.ru site directory under the name "site of the town of Kulebaki": the directory section (/rub/) accompanied it with a description of local industry — the Kulebaki Metallurgical Plant, the Start plant LLC, ring-rolling production, ferrotitanium and flanges, the Kulebaki Metal Structures Plant, as well as agriculture, fish farming and the food industry of the town of Kulebaki, Nizhny Novgorod Region. The homepage snapshots preserved in the web archive, however, show not a local-history or factory-related resource, but a general-interest entertainment portal.

What the site looked like

As of February 2009 the site presented itself as a "Club of web portals: news, software, games, music, movies, pictures, humor" — as the homepage stated[1]. The top menu included the sections "Games," "Books," "Mobile," "Music," "News," "Porn (18+)," "Miscellaneous," "Software," "Movies," "Forum," "Humor," and below it — "Home | Catalog | Announcements | Forum | Contact | Advertising"; a separate line read: "While the forum isn't launched yet, let's talk here -> FAQ / Questions and Answers"[1]. The page had a calendar for the current month and an "Account" block with login and password fields, and links for registration and password recovery[1]. Below that ran a feed of dated posts — descriptions of films and software releases with view and comment counts, signed with the authors' handles ("superstar777," "vovanadze," "Finder") and the names of internal "portals" ("Best FILMS," "mediaclub," "AvtoMotoDrive")[1].

By June 2009 the design had changed: the main menu had been reduced to "Movies," "Music," "Software," "Games," "Books," "Mobile," "(18+)," "Miscellaneous," and the page invited visitors: "Save your time! Use the search..."[2]. The news for 06/30/2009 was grouped by section — "Movies," "Music," "Software" — and each post listed a source from a third-party site: neprosto.com.ua, 3zone.ru, warez-info.ru, top-files.ru, apper.ru, xitwarez.ru, boez.org[2]. Thus the site functioned as an aggregator of links and descriptions from other file-sharing and warez resources, rather than as a platform with its own material about Kulebaki.

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The domain was listed in the nn.ru directory — a general site index that also included the Counter.nn.ru rating — under an association with the town of Kulebaki, Nizhny Novgorod Region. In the counter dataset preserved in our archive, this address does not appear: no traffic estimates and no votes within the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day were recorded for it — this indicates an absence of data in the available sample, not a confirmed zero. For more on how such a sample is structured and what it may lack, see the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating. The directory description listing Kulebaki enterprises points to the resource's original or declared regional profile, but the content of the preserved snapshots does not match that description — the site in fact operated within the general niche of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet as an entertainment portal accessible from any city.

How it closed

The last homepage snapshot in the web archive is dated June 30, 2009[2]. No later data about the site has survived, and the domain was not functioning at the time of the survey.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, February 2009 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, June 30, 2009 (archive)