FTDworld closes its doors. The team behind the popular usenet indexer indicates to stop. It is not known what the reason behind the closure of the site is, but say simply passed on the baton to a new team with a new site.
“We FTDworld going to quit. A whole new team will be the one of us take over”, falls on FTDworld to read. In a few days the site will go black. The site was one of the major usenet indexers and could, as a successor to be seen of the well-known usenetcommunity FTD, at the beginning of 2011 in the towel threw after he lost a lawsuit against the Brain. FTDworld had at the beginning of this year, say that more than 250,000 members.
It is not known what the reason for the stop is. FTDworld was already legal under the fire of piraterijbestrijder Brain, but the beginning of this year decided in the courts yet that ING the contact details of an administrator of the usenet indexer not to Brain having to hand over.
The administrators announce that a new site, the baton will help: Dutplanet.net. The site is already in the air, but FTDworld says that a new team management Dutplanet will take over.