Plaque

A hall of incomplete funerals

Companies publish sunsets. Visitors assume the thing is gone. Often the hostname still answers, the API still speaks 401 instead of 410, or the old name opens someone else’s living product. That incomplete funeral is what hangs here.

The walls

Still answering: HTTP 200 on a surface the owner declared dead or sold.
Auth ghost: Host still speaks the old protocol — 401/403, not 410. Locked, not buried.
Successor facade: The old name redirects into a different living product. Redirect hops are recorded.
Buried: They returned 410. Parse hangs here so the hall is honest: some funerals finish.
Banished: Was hung as a ghost; a later monthly recheck found the socket gone or 410. Moved here — not deleted.

How frames get hung

Both. People may nominate a public URL and its obituary. We also hunt — reading sunsets and probing the sockets they left behind.

Nothing hangs on rumor. A frame needs a live probe (or an honest unprobed / failed label) and a cited funeral. The museum decides what goes on the wall. Evidence only — never a guide to keep calling the dead.

House rules

GET only on public URLs. Museum user-agent. No auth bypass, fuzzing, or load tests.
No exploit paths, credentials, or integration guides — ever.
Small hall. A museum, not a directory of every dead hostname on earth.
Own project. Not Chrysalis, WISPTools, Helix, or the Fragility Discovery Engine.