Re-checked 2026-09-02
Business listing sites, with the dead ones marked
Forty business directories and review platforms where a company listing can live, fetched one by one on the date shown. Several have rebranded or moved and still appear on every citation list unchanged.
40
checked
18
answered normally
17
blocked our request
5
dead or moved
Checked on 2026-09-02. A domain “answered normally” if it returned a success response over HTTPS and did not redirect to a different domain. That is the entire claim — it does not mean the platform still accepts new accounts, still allows an outbound link, or gives a do-follow one. Those cannot be established by fetching a page, so we do not put a column here pretending otherwise.
5 entries that other lists still carry
These are the useful part. Each one appears in widely-copied lists and is no longer where those lists say it is.
| Listed as | What happened |
|---|---|
| sitejabber.com | now redirects to smartcustomer.com |
| cylex.net | did not resolve |
| kompass.com | did not resolve |
| yellowpages.in | did not resolve |
| angel.co | now redirects to wellfound.com |
The 35 that answered
Company data · 4
| Crunchbase | crunchbase.com | responded |
| StartupRanking | startupranking.com | responded |
| F6S | f6s.com | responded |
| Owler | owler.com | responded |
Software reviews · 4
| G2 | g2.com | blocks automated checks |
| Capterra | capterra.com | blocks automated checks |
| GetApp | getapp.com | blocks automated checks |
| Software Advice | softwareadvice.com | blocks automated checks |
Reviews · 1
| Trustpilot | trustpilot.com | blocks automated checks |
B2B services · 3
| Clutch | clutch.co | blocks automated checks |
| GoodFirms | goodfirms.co | blocks automated checks |
| DesignRush | designrush.com | blocks automated checks |
Local · 8
| Yelp | yelp.com | blocks automated checks |
| Better Business Bureau | bbb.org | responded |
| Foursquare | foursquare.com | responded |
| Manta | manta.com | blocks automated checks |
| Hotfrog | hotfrog.com | blocks automated checks |
| Brownbook | brownbook.net | responded |
| Tupalo | tupalo.com | blocks automated checks |
| Yellow Pages | yellowpages.com | blocks automated checks |
B2B · 4
| Europages | europages.co.uk | responded |
| Thomasnet | thomasnet.com | blocks automated checks |
| Alibaba | alibaba.com | responded |
| TradeFord | tradeford.com | blocks automated checks |
India local · 4
| Justdial | justdial.com | responded |
| Sulekha | sulekha.com | responded |
| IndiaCom | indiacom.com | responded |
| AskLaila | asklaila.com | responded |
India B2B · 3
| IndiaMART | indiamart.com | responded |
| TradeIndia | tradeindia.com | responded |
| ExportersIndia | exportersindia.com | responded |
Software · 4
| SaaSHub | saashub.com | responded |
| AlternativeTo | alternativeto.net | blocks automated checks |
| Product Hunt | producthunt.com | blocks automated checks |
| BetaList | betalist.com | responded |
A platform that blocks automated requests is not broken — plenty of large sites refuse traffic that does not look like a browser. It is listed separately because we could not confirm it ourselves, and saying so is more useful than quietly counting it as a pass.
Why a list like this goes stale
Almost every “top sites” list is copied from an older list, which was copied from an older one. Nothing in that chain re-checks the entries, so a platform that rebrands, moves domain or shuts down stays on every list indefinitely.
That is the same failure we see in link reports. A file listing 300 placements looks identical whether the pages exist or not, which is why we fetch every URL in a customer report before it is sent — and why we re-ran this list rather than reprinting one.
This page is re-checked when we update it, and the date at the top is the date it actually ran. If an entry here has moved since, it is our error to fix, not yours to discover.