Hookup Sites That Shut Down

Not every hookup site makes it. I have been reviewing these platforms for over 11 years, and in that time I have watched a lot of them go under. Some got bought out and quietly switched off. Some ran out of money and vanished overnight with no warning. A few just let the domain lapse and never came back.

This is where I keep track of the ones that are gone. For each dead site you will find what it was, what actually happened to it, and where I would send you instead if you are still after something that works. If a site you remember is not on this list, it is probably still running, and you can check the live ones over on our user reviews page.

Still looking for a site that is alive and worth your time? Here are the ones that still deliver.

Best Hookup Sites

The Graveyard

InstaFlirters shut down, domain now runs a redirect script
BabbleSex: free sex chat community that opened in 2007 and ran completely free for 16 years. It went dark in early 2023 when the server died and never came back. Somebody still pays for the domain, but nobody is home.
BangLocals: white label casual dating site established in 2018, charged $39.95 a month after a free trial. The domain stopped resolving and the site vanished, last archived February 2023.
BBWDesire: BBW hookup site launched around 2011 that claimed over two million members, and was our top pick in the category for years. The dating site was shut down and the domain was sold on, so bbwdesire.com now hosts an unrelated French-language womens magazine.
BGCLive: Black Gay Chat Live, the online home of the Black gay, lesbian and trans community before the apps, over 600,000 members at its peak. It was killed by neglect, a MySpace-era design and no real mobile app, and bgclive.com no longer resolves.
BigBoobsDirect: white label BBW dating site established in 2012. It charged up to EUR59.73 a month and billed extra just to message or reply. Domain now dead, last archived early 2023.
Blendr: launched in 2011 as Grindr for straight people, by Grindr’s own founder, and later run by Badoo. Tinder took the market and Badoo pulled the plug on 31 October 2022, wiping member data that November. The Blender app in the stores today is a different company entirely.
BoyAhoy: the gay counterpart to the Skout meet-nearby app, launched around 2010. After The Meet Group bought Skout in 2016 it was left to fade, and boyahoy.com went dark around 2020. A different adult site now squats on the boyahoy.org name.
Candidate: Austrian indie app that skipped swiping, you answered five questions and the photos only appeared later. It ran nine years and around 260,000 users, then left both app stores in spring 2024 with a short thank-you note.
Chappy: the gay dating app with a “Mr. Right / Mr. Right Now” slider, co-founded by reality star Ollie Locke and bankrolled by Bumble in 2017. Bumble folded it into the main Bumble app in February 2020 and wiped everyone’s profiles. The domain now just redirects to Bumble.
CheatersFantasy: white label affair site established in 2013, one of a cluster sharing the same trial and billing. The whole network went dark in late 2025.
CheatersFinder: white label affair site established in 2012, a near twin of CheatersFantasy on the same backend. Switched off with its network in September 2025.
CheatNextDoor: white label affair site established in 2013, the last of its network to go dark, in October 2025.
ClubForePlay: swinger and polyamory dating site that opened in 2003, paid membership billed through CCBill, with an almost entirely US crowd. It went dark with no announcement and the domain no longer answers.
CougarFriendsDate: free white label cougar dating site established in 2018. It drifted for years feeding signups to paid sites, then the domain lapsed for good.
CougarsPlay: white label cougar site established in 2018, run on the same billing network as this list’s buried cheaters sites. Domain dead, last served a real page in January 2025.
CrossPaths: swipe-style app for single Christians, built by Spark Networks around 2015. It slipped off both stores with no announcement while its parent was in financial trouble, and the site now answers with Site is not available.
DateHookup: genuinely free dating site launched in 2002 that grew to over a million visitors a month. Match Group bought it in 2012 and by 2015 logging in just dumped members onto Match.com. The domain is now a one-line signpost pointing at PlentyofFish.
Dating Direct: British dating veteran that launched in 1999 and became one of the UK’s biggest, with millions of members. Meetic bought it in 2007 and Match retired the name on 28 October 2020, moving members across to its own site. The domain no longer resolves.
DatingDNA: billed itself as the original free iPhone dating app, and the DNA in the name meant a compatibility questionnaire, not genetics. Building iOS-only was the fatal call. The site stopped serving its own pages in early 2018 and datingdna.com is now parked with a for-sale sign on it.
Delightful: Steve Harvey’s dating site, launched in late 2014 with Match running the machinery underneath. It faded out with no announcement at all, and delightful.com now redirects to a Match page with the word deprecated sitting in the address bar.
EasyGranny: white label granny dating site established in 2017, another skin on the same WTSEticket network as CougarsPlay and the cheaters sites. Domain now dead.
Established Men: sugar daddy site launched in 2009 by Avid Life Media, the company behind Ashley Madison, and named alongside it in the 2015 Impact Team breach demands. It outlived that by nine years and closed in 2024. The old address now redirects to a farewell notice.
FindMyBabe: adult dating site that began life as a Passion.com whitelabel, its earliest captures showing that network’s own welcome page rather than its own. It ran under its own branding until around 2020, then went quiet. The server behind the domain has returned nothing for years.
FirstMet: started in 2007 as AreYouInterested, a dating app that lived inside Facebook, and rebranded in 2016 with 30 million members behind it. The site stopped answering at the start of September 2021 and the apps were gone within two weeks. The domain no longer resolves.
FKBabe: free white label casual site established in 2018, really a lead funnel for a paid network. Domain dead, last served a real page in January 2025.
FlingHub: white label fling site around since 2010, notorious for a cheap trial that flipped to ?54.52 a month. Went dark back in 2022.
Flip: 2016 app that fought fake profiles by making you copy a random pose on camera before you could join. It reached about 300,000 users, went quiet after a late 2022 update, and the flip.dating domain expired in spring 2025 and now sits on a resale lot.
FlirtInLove: straight, gay and lesbian dating site run from Hong Kong by Bestsocial LTD, live from about 2020 on its own software. The last archived capture is February 2024, and the domain was re-registered in March 2026 and put up for sale at 995 dollars.
Flirt-Mee: white label chat site on the Flirt-Box network, established 2019, ran a euro credits model aimed at Dutch and Belgian users. The domain stopped resolving, last archived mid-2025.
FlirtSwap: free white label skin of the NaughtyDate platform, adult sex dating. Domain dead, last served a real page March 2025.
ForumOfDesires: white label dating site established in 2021, ran on a pay-per-action coin system (up to ?238.91 for 200 coins). Went dark in early 2026.
FuckkBook: white label hookup site with a Facebook knockoff name, established in 2018 on rented infrastructure. Domain now dead.
Hitwe: free social discovery site that claimed over 240 million registered users at its peak, big in Africa and South America. The Android app was pulled from Google Play in December 2020, the domain later turned into a bride-catalogue lander, and by mid 2026 it stopped loading at all.
HookUpIt: white label adult dating site from 2020 that peaked near 178,000 visits a month. The operator dropped it and the domain is now parked for sale on HugeDomains.
Horny-Hub: white label adult dating skin launched in 2020, aimed at straight, gay, and lesbian users. The domain stopped resolving in late 2025 and the site is gone.
HotorNot: the site that invented rating strangers out of ten, launched in 2000. Sold to Avid Life Media in 2008 and to Badoo in 2012, then folded into an app called Chat and Date. The domain stopped serving its own site in December 2020 and redirects there now.
HowAboutWe: Brooklyn site from 2010 built on posting an actual date idea instead of a profile, and it reached around seven million members. IAC bought it in July 2014 and wound the dating service down within a couple of years. The domain is now a single line pointing at Match.com.
HSwing: independent swinger site dating back to 2007, one of the older ones here. The domain no longer resolves, last archived in late 2024.
iHookup: no-strings hookup site that launched in 2009 and claimed over three million members. A 2016 redesign fixed the looks but never the paywall, you could not send a single message without paying. It went dark with no announcement and the domain no longer answers.
InstaBoink: white label site from 2020 charging 27.23 euro a month. By its last working capture in May 2023 it had stopped being a dating site at all, sending clicks through a redirect handler after a questionnaire promising matches “43% faster”. Gone by March 2024, and the domain now points at 127.0.0.1.
InstaFlirt: affair dating site run by Deniro Marketing (aka AmateurMatch), built on fake “Online Cupids” profiles and named in a 2010 class action. Switched off in late 2025 though the domain stays registered.
Klique: group dating app where you and your friends matched with other groups, and over a million people signed up. The whole category collapsed after Tinder killed Tinder Social in 2017, and Klique’s site went dark by mid 2018 without a goodbye.
LocalBangClub: white label from 2021 that spiked past two million visits a month before the network burned it. The domain now serves a parking placeholder.
LocalBangs: white label straight dating site from 2011. The server still answers from behind Cloudflare but every page returns a 404, so the site is gone.
LocalShemaleContacts: niche white label transgender dating site from 2016 that never cleared a few thousand visits a month. The .co.uk domain no longer resolves, quiet since 2022.
LuvByrd: outdoor dating site launched in Colorado in 2014 for skiers, climbers and campers, free to use and open to gay and straight members. It ran a decade before losing the numbers game to the big apps. The domain now loads a bare hosting control panel.
ManCrunch: a gay dating site out of the company behind Ashley Madison, best known for a 2010 Super Bowl ad of two men kissing that CBS refused to air. It never caught on, and today mancrunch.com just redirects to Ashley Madison.
Match2Night: white label from 2020 that posted over two million visits a month at its peak. The domain now shows a for-sale parking page.
MatchurLove: white label MILF and older-women dating site from around 2019, another cheap-trial-into-a-EUR 54.52-a-month skin. Its server has since gone dark and the site no longer loads, though the domain stays registered.
MatchWishes: white label dating site established in 2018 (our records tie it to NaughtyDate). Went quiet in 2024 and the domain lapsed completely, now unregistered.
Mate1: large Canadian dating site that claimed over 30 million members. It is best remembered for a February 2016 breach that exposed around 27 million accounts with the passwords stored in plain text. The name is gone and mate1.com now redirects to a site called eDate.
MELD: dating app for single Black professionals, launched in 2014 by two Dartmouth MBA classmates and vetted through LinkedIn. It never drew the crowd the idea deserved and went dark by the end of 2018. The old address now hosts an unrelated spam blog.
MiCrush: dating app built for Latinos with proper English, Spanish and Portuguese support and a genuinely useful free tier. It ran out of runway with no announcement, and micrushapp.com is now parked for sale on a domain reseller.
MilfsContact: white label MILF dating site (our records, since 2018). Went dark in May 2025 and the domain expired a year later, now in its redemption period.
Mint: Latvian app backed by the Ask.fm founders that let you message anyone nearby without waiting for a match. The site froze in 2018, the apps left the stores around 2021, and mint.me is parked for sale. The Mint-branded app in the stores today is unrelated.
MissTravel: travel dating site that matched people who wanted trips with people who would pay for them. It closed with an actual farewell notice reading that Miss Travel had reached its final sunset, live by December 2025, and now points members to Seeking.com from the same company.
MySecretSexMate: white label adult dating site established in 2019, ran on an EUR8.09 trial that rolled into EUR31.91 a month. Went quiet in 2022 and the domain has lapsed.
NakedLocals: white label dating site established in 2018, another skin on the same WTSEticket network, with a GBP 1.77 trial that rolled into GBP 36.32 a month. Ran into late 2025, then the domain stopped resolving entirely.
NaughtyLuck: white label dating site established in 2014, another skin on the same trial-trap billing, with a cheap day or week that rolled into about EUR 54.52 a month. Served pages into late 2025, then the domain stopped resolving.
NymphoDate: white label straight dating skin from 2011 on a .co.uk domain. The server answers but returns a 404 on every page, so the site is gone.
NymphoDate (.com): straight adult dating site running since around 2009. It served its last working page on 13 September 2024, then went to redirects and errors. The domain still resolves but nothing answers. The separate .co.uk version of the brand is also gone.
Oasis Active: popular free Australian dating site from 2008 that merged with RSVP in 2014. It closed in December 2020 because ad revenue on a free platform stopped covering the costs. Be careful: the old domain was taken over and now runs an unrelated overseas marriage agency, so it looks alive but is not the same company.
OnlyFlings: white label straight dating site, ran on a EUR1.77 trial that rolled into EUR36.32 a month. Switched off in late 2025 though the domain stays registered into 2026.
OnlyHookup: affair-focused site whose tagline was have an affair tonight. It was still working in October 2025, then the server behind it stopped answering. The domain still resolves, so it looks alive for a moment before failing.
OutPersonals: the gay corner of the FriendFinder network (the AdultFriendFinder company), a paid, explicit, site-based hookup platform. Rather than shut down it was folded into MenNation, and outpersonals.com now redirects there.
Over40only: white label older-women dating site established in 2013, another skin on the WTSEticket network with a EUR 1.77 trial that rolled into EUR 36.32 a month. Faded out and the domain stopped resolving, last archived in 2025.
Premium-Adult-Flirts: whitelabel adult dating skin that appeared around 2021 and lasted about three years. Its last working capture is dated 18 December 2024, and the domain stopped responding entirely during 2025.
QwikMeet: white label sex dating site on the DirtyDating network, going back to 2011. The domain is now parked for sale on HugeDomains.
Satisfy-Yourself: white label adult dating skin from 2020 that never got off the ground. The domain stopped resolving in mid 2025.
SeniorPeopleMeet: over-50 dating site from the People Media stable inside Match Group. It was not so much closed as absorbed, since Match already owned OurTime chasing the same audience. The address redirects there now.
SexPartnerChat: German white label chat dating site from 2019, aimed at the .de market. The domain no longer resolves, quiet since early 2025.
SextWithSluts: white label from 2020 that pulled over three million visits a month at its peak. The domain no longer resolves, dark since early 2026.
SingleParentMeet: another People Media niche site under Match Group, this one for single parents. It was retired without a word, and its own address now redirects to a page whose URL literally ends in the word deprecated.
SitAlong: free dating site built only for the over-50 crowd, launched in 2014 and rated Excellent when we reviewed it. The last Internet Archive capture is August 2021 and the server has not answered since.
SluttyDates: white label sex dating skin that pulled better than half a million visits a month. The domain no longer resolves, last archived late 2024.
SluttyFlirt: white label sex dating site from 2021 with north of 600,000 visits a month at its peak. The domain no longer resolves, gone since early 2024.
SluttyMatches: white label from 2020 aimed at straight, gay, and lesbian users, around 444,000 visits a month. The domain no longer resolves, quiet since mid 2025.
Social-Hookups: older white label sex dating skin from 2013 that stayed tiny. The domain no longer resolves, last archived late 2025.
SpeedDate.com: three minute video speed dating site from 2007 that claimed over 11 million members. Match Group ended up owning it and shut it down around 2018 with no announcement. Online speed dating largely died with it.
Sudy: Hong Kong sugar daddy app from 2015 that claimed a couple of million members. Google banned sugar dating apps from Play in the summer of 2021 and the original vanished. A scrubbed, rebranded Sudy app exists on Android, but it is not the app we reviewed.
TenderSingles: free white label Swiss dating site from 2018 on a .ch domain. With no revenue behind it the operator dropped it, and the domain now shows a parking page.
The Grade: 2014 app that graded every member from A+ to F and expelled the failures. Its parent company sold the entire dating portfolio for 1.6 million dollars in early 2019, the new owner let it starve, and it was off the stores by 2020.
TheWorldDate: generic white label adult dating skin from 2020, around 37,000 visits a month. The domain no longer resolves, quiet since mid 2025.
TryDate: Florida-built app that matched you blind and kept both profiles hidden until you had chatted enough to earn the reveal, with over a million installs. The last update shipped in November 2018 and the site went dark at the end of 2021.
UnitedFlirtingStates: high-volume white label from 2020 built for US search traffic, near a million visits a month. The domain now shows a parking page.
Unlimdate: adult dating site from 2018 with a very broad target group, around 446,000 visits a month. The domain no longer resolves, dark since late 2025.
VGL: short for “Very Good Looking,” a 2013 gay dating app aimed at twinks and jocks 18 to 35, with a clever pose-with-a-sign verification trick. It stayed niche, never beat Grindr, and today the app is defunct and getvgl.com no longer loads.
WannaMeet: St Petersburg dating app run through a London shell company, with a couple of million downloads at its peak. The last update shipped in summer 2018, the site served its final page in December 2019, and the domain has fallen out of DNS.
WhereIFoundLove: small independent dating site from 2014 that never scaled. The operator abandoned it and the domain is now parked for sale on HugeDomains.
Whim: San Francisco app from 2015 that skipped the texting and simply booked the date, founded by Eve Peters out of OkCupid Labs. It did not survive 2018 and the site went in August 2019. Its old address is now a clone site stuffed with casino spam.
XSwipes: white label swipe-style straight dating skin from 2018. The domain now serves a parking page instead of the site.
YouUmu: white label on the Wee-Muu network from 2020, one of a run of odd little brand names. The domain no longer resolves, gone since late 2025.
ZoomHookups: white label straight dating site from 2020 that rode the video-call boom, around 229,000 visits a month. The domain now shows a parking page.