Ever a time where you were forced to close a site?

[Good-Person]

Closing a website down is quite unfortunate for the individual in question. It can be especially disappointing when a site you've spent time on, joined a collective on, or developed or submitted material to shuts down.

Yes, closing a website could even be a very emotional decision as well. This is because you may be running a website for a really long time and you may need to close it. This may cause sadness.

 

[Ronald]

Yes, closing a website could even be a very emotional decision as well. This is because you may be running a website for a really long time and you may need to close it. This may cause sadness.

Closing your personal website down can be really devastating for an individual, especially when they have been attached to the website for a long period of time.

 

[Syldan]

Currently I am not yet a site owner but I think such cases are not that prevalent on the internet and to what extent will you be forced to close down your site. such can only happen when you are into some illegal act.

 

[eenya001]

it is not only when you are into illegal act before you think of closing your website, there may be different factors that would be affecting the growth of your website and these can force you to close.

 

[Chibson]

Selling a domain that is not yours can put you in so much risk in some futureparts of the world and he is lucky he was not sued, but he should find a way to avoid issues in the

If someone steals another person's domain to sell, it is a very big offense. if the person is caught by any domain platform he or she will actually be punished for that.

 

[Syldan]

Personally I think such kind of cases are not prevalent and I don't really think someone has be forced to close down his site unless I think when he is into an illegal act that is contrary to the state law.

 

[Laurentta]

I feel so sad for your friend. It seems like he really put a lot of hard work into the site. Anyways, i've never been forced to close a site, i've never even owned a site.

 

[Ray-forzy]

This isn't about me, but a friend of mine had a site he used to post a lot to. He had a decent amount of traffic coming to it a month, but sadly he was forced to sell off the domain to a company that owned the name. I guess he had the name before the company, but didn't own the copyright even after the company came out.

He decided to just sell the domain to them and rebrand the site, but sadly he ended up losing a ton of traffic because of it and later closed it down.

Has there ever been a time where you were forced to close a site down?

It is extremely awful for the person involved to shut down their website. When a website that you've put effort in, established a creative balance on, or generated or published content grinds to a halt, it can be very disheartening.

 

[Ronny_4son]

I have shut down my website before for about a fortnight because I was updating my website in terms of layout and adding some beneficial features to enhance the quality of the page

 

[Kvngsammy]

I've not had the chance to close down any site because I've not had much sites as well - I think instead of closing down a site, it's better to sell off the site if you think you're no longer interested.

 

[Kane]

I have been forced to shut down my site because of high expenses. I had a website that needed at least $200 per year just to run it, but the website was not generating any revenue, therefore, I shut it down.

 

[gammarays]

I don't think I have been forced at any time to shut down my blog. You can only be forced to do so if you have a copyright infringement issue or you have illegal resources on the website or blog. However I have voluntarily allowed my blog to die because I wasn't getting the traffic I needed.

 

[Heatman]

This isn't about me, but a friend of mine had a site he used to post a lot to. He had a decent amount of traffic coming to it a month, but sadly he was forced to sell off the domain to a company that owned the name. I guess he had the name before the company, but didn't own the copyright even after the company came out.

He decided to just sell the domain to them and rebrand the site, but sadly he ended up losing a ton of traffic because of it and later closed it down.

Has there ever been a time where you were forced to close a site down?

I can vehemently say that is always painful and frustrating when you are forced to close down your website because of one challenge or another that you cannot be able to take care of which means that all your efforts have been consigned to being useless.