Sites we have removed from our rankings

Sites in this category disappear. Some close quietly, some let a domain lapse, some rebrand and move, and a few keep the domain alive while the product behind it is gone. When that happens to a site we reviewed, we do not delete the page and we do not leave the sign-up button on it either. We record what we found.

This page is the running list.

Why keep a public record?

Because the alternative is worse. A review that quietly vanishes leaves nothing behind for the reader who is still holding a balance on a site that stopped answering, and a review that keeps its "claim bonus" button pointed at a dead domain is actively misleading.

It is also what how we rank already commits us to. In our own words there: a site "gets dropped from our rankings regardless of how much traffic or revenue it sends our way", and if a code stops working "we replace it or pull it". This page is the evidence that the commitment is real, including in the cases where dropping a site cost us the commission.

What we check before listing a site here

Every entry below comes from the same short procedure, run on the date shown in the table:

• We request the site's domain directly and record what comes back — a page, a redirect, a server error, or nothing at all.
• We check whether the domain still resolves in DNS, since a domain that has lapsed behaves differently from a site that is merely down.
• We look the domain up in the Internet Archive to find when it last served a real page, so we can say roughly how long it has been gone.
• We follow the affiliate link attached to our own review and check where it actually lands today.
• We search for any statement from the operator about a closure, a rebrand or a move.

We report only what those checks return. "The domain no longer resolves" and "we could not reach the site" are claims we can stand behind. We do not write that a site scammed anyone, or stopped paying, unless we have a source that says so — and where we have no such source, the absence of the accusation is deliberate rather than an oversight.

Sites that are no longer reachable

Each of these failed to serve its own site when we checked. The review page stays online with its affiliate link and bonus code removed.

Sites that moved or were rebranded

These are not closures. The operator is still there, under a new address or a new name. We list them because the review you may have bookmarked points at a domain that no longer describes what you will find.

A move tells you where a site lives now and nothing else. It says nothing about ownership, terms, fees or payout behaviour, so we do not carry an old score across a rebrand — the ratings on those review pages describe the site as it was before the change.

Affiliate links that were repurposed

Two of the reviews above carried an affiliate link that no longer went anywhere near the site being reviewed. The links attached to RustySaloon and Society.gg now resolve to a generic betting promotion on a third-party offer domain — a different operator, a different product, and no relationship to the page the reader clicked from.

Both links have been removed, along with their bonus codes. Sending a reader to an unrelated operator out of a review of something else is the practice we criticise in other sites, and it does not become acceptable when the destination happens to pay us.

Flagged, but currently responding

One entry does not belong in either table above, and we would rather show the inconsistency than tidy it away.

The "Under Maintenance" flag predates this check, so it is now due for re-verification against a full deposit-and-cash-out test rather than a page load. Until someone runs that test, the flag stays as it is.

Found something we have missed?

If a site on our lists has stopped paying, stopped answering, or quietly changed hands, tell us and name it. Reader reports are the fastest way a site loses its rating, and they are the reason several of the entries above are here at all.

Corrections to this page work the same way. If we have a status wrong, or a domain has come back, we would rather hear it than leave a stale claim standing.