DMOZ - dead? (not accepting new url's)

[Van Hellseek]

i've been working on a couple of new sites and have been itching to get them listed at dmoz, which is usually one of my first steps with SEO. but it seems dmoz is pretty dead at the moment and opinion is mixed about exactly what is going on there.

hopefully it's just a brief technical hitch, but the error messages (for suggested url's) say to check back in 48 hours, yet it's been dead for at least a week so far...

 

[Gobbledegeek]

It's been like it for more than a month I believe (25th Oct?) and they say they have no idea what the problem is or when it'll be fixed! I gather that problems began to surface following some maintenance a couple of weeks prior to it's death.

We are currently experiencing technical problems with our servers. Currently the public pages are static pages that have been generated from a backup. This means:

(1) the public pages do not reflect the most recent updates made to the directory;

(2) scripted pages, including site suggestion and application forms, are not functioning; and

(3) editors are unable to check the status of new editor applications.

We do not currently have an ETA for the resolution of the technical difficulties. We will update this announcement when the system is fully functioning again -- please do not start threads asking why the system isn't working properly or when it will be available again. Thanks.