Methodology — how the survey was measured

Source

DungeonNet ran a curated directory of the femdom web from the late 1990s. Its listings are not plain hyperlinks: each one is a redirect row at jump.cgi?ID=n, which is why backlink tools never recorded them as links. The ID space is dense and public, so it can be walked.

The walk covered IDs 1–4,000 and produced 3,220 published listings across 55 categories, with 170 further rows that resolved but appeared on no category page.

685 of those listings have no recorded hostname: they were swept, they failed, and the failure was recorded rather than the address. They are listed by name and counted as gone.

Sweep

Every published row was requested over the network and classified. Redirects were followed. The result:

2,187 still resolve
1,033 do not
170 resolved but were published on no category page

Index check — and its limit

A host that answers is not a host that exists, so surviving results were checked against Google's index individually. Of the entries checked, roughly seven in ten are still indexed; the rest resolve while having vanished from search.

This is a sample, not a census. Index status is recorded on 113 entries and blank on the rest. Where a category page says an entry is “out of Google’s index”, that was measured; where it is silent, it was simply not checked. Completing the check on all surviving entries is the next pass.

What the fields mean

listed: When DungeonNet first published the entry, transcribed from its own stamp.
outbound clicks: DungeonNet's own click counter for that entry. The only traffic proxy that exists anywhere in this niche.
orphan row: Resolved, but appeared on no category page — cited by DungeonNet, never shown to a visitor.
out of Google's index: Answers, but search no longer lists it. Sampled, not universal.
parked: The domain resolves to a for-sale or holding page, not to the site that was listed. Counted as gone, because the site is.

Limits, stated plainly

A live host is not a live scene. Many survivors are abandoned. Resolution is not activity; nothing here measures whether anyone is home.
Some gone entries have no link and some do. Both shapes are the same finding, recorded differently. Where the sweep captured an address before the target failed, the entry keeps the address and is labelled with how it failed. Where it failed before an address was ever written down — 685 listings — only the name survives, so the entry carries no anchor. Name-only is not a rendering gap; it is what the record actually contains.
The ordering is a proxy. Outbound clicks were accumulated over two decades. A site added in 2011 competes against one from 1999.
55 entries resolve to for-sale pages. They are labelled rather than removed: the domain still answers, but what answers is a broker, not the scene.
Some categories are thin. A handful of DungeonNet's 55 held fewer than five entries. They are published anyway rather than merged, because the category was real.
Index status moves. It was measured once, in 26 October 2026, and is dated rather than presented as permanent.
The clip is deliberate. The sweep stopped at ID 4,000 with listings running past it. Entries beyond that cut are absent, not dead.
Nothing is scraped. Titles and descriptions are DungeonNet's own, transcribed as written, including their 1990s capitalisation.

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