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Killed March 17, 2017

DMOZ (Open Directory Project)

Founded 1998 · Peak: 5 million sites, 92,000 editors

Why DMOZ (Open Directory Project) mattered

The Open Directory Project. 5 million sites, 92,000 volunteer editors, 1 million categories. The largest human-edited web directory ever built. AOL silently killed it in 2017.

How SENTINEL brings it back

SENTINEL Directory is the open replacement: 3 million+ curated sites, AI-assisted categorization, hierarchical category browse, free submission. The DMOZ data is being re-ingested and the structure preserved.

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Why this matters in 2026

Big Tech killed every great community-driven internet tool between 2008 and 2024. DMOZ (Open Directory Project) was one of them. SENTINEL is the unified replacement — 7 dead products reborn as one AI-powered platform on owned infrastructure, free forever for personal use, no tracking, no ads.

All AI runs on local Llama and Qwen models — no OpenAI bills, your data never leaves our server. Stripe-powered subscriptions for paid tiers, free forever for the basics.