DMOZ

Directory Mozilla

A Web directory that operated from 1998 to 2017. It was also known as the Open Directory Project (ODP). Some key facts about DMOZ:

• It was a multilingual, open content directory of World Wide Web links, constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.
• The site was founded as GnuHoo by Rich Skrenta and Bob Truel in 1998 and was acquired by Netscape later that year.
• Netscape released the directory under the Open Directory License and renamed it the Open Directory Project.
• It was owned by AOL (now a part of Verizon Media) but administered in the public interest by a community of volunteer editors.

In its heyday, DMOZ was considered one of the most comprehensive human-edited directories of the Web, alongside Yahoo! Directory (which closed in 2014). On March 14, 2017, all of the DMOZ URLs began redirecting to a single page on the dmoz.org domain, stating that DMOZ has closed. The directory is no longer available.

• Abbreviation: DMOZ