30 UK businesses publish a web address that goes nowhere

The web address the business publishes on its own directory listing does not resolve at all. We query the bare hostname and the www hostname against five independent public resolvers, confirm the answer at the registry nameserver, and query a known-live and a known-dead control domain in the same second so a resolver outage cannot be mistaken for a dead domain. It is not an opinion about the site's speed, design or age.

About 1.7% of the businesses we scan have a fully dead domain. That is low enough that nobody finds them by hand, which is exactly why they sit there for years with directories still printing a link that goes nowhere. A town hands you one or two, not fifty. Anyone selling you a list of fifty broken sites in one town has not checked.

Because they have not asked to be named on a public page, and the rows are the product. The counts, the method and the dates are public so anyone can judge whether the work is real.

Every row is re-queried on each verification run. The last full re-check was 2026-09-08, and every count on this page survived it with no decay. A fault that heals is removed, never sold.

Yes. A free account is 20 credits with no card — two searches, enough to run a town and a trade and judge the output yourself. You see every business found and what we observed about each site; phone numbers and email addresses come with a paid plan.