{"rid":"debrid/simply-nzbs","card":{"rid":"debrid/simply-nzbs","eid":"simplynzbs","topic":"debrid","slug":"simply-nzbs","provider":"SimplyNZBs","url":"https://simplynzbs.com/","domain":"simplynzbs.com","category":"Usenet indexer (Newznab API, closed)","tier":"free","verdict":"dead","vorder":7,"grp":"dead","confidence":"reported","binding":"write-gated","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:11:54.066Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-24","stale_on":"2026-11-07","n_evidence":4,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"None: the domain no longer hosts the indexer. A request for https://simplynzbs.com/ redirects to http://ww80.simplynzbs.com/?subid1=<uuid> - the shape of a l...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":0},"record":{"slug":"simply-nzbs","provider":"SimplyNZBs","url":"https://simplynzbs.com/","category":"Usenet indexer (Newznab API, closed)","tier":"free","free_tier":{"stated":"None: the domain no longer hosts the indexer. A request for https://simplynzbs.com/ redirects to http://ww80.simplynzbs.com/?subid1=<uuid> - the shape of a lapsed domain on a parking service - and that host fails to answer (Cloudflare 520, 'the origin returned an unknown or empty response'). A review states the service is 'no longer operational as of 2024-2025'. The last published free tier was 10 API hits and 5 downloads per day, invite-gated.","unit":"none","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://simplynzbs.com/","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":""},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable: an NZB pointer file","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://simplynzbs.com/","notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"last claimed 'up to 2,145 days retention' while operating; no longer served","days":null,"source_url":"https://nzbhydra.com/indexers/","notes":"reported, historical"},"egress":{"terms":"none: every request is answered by a redirect to a parking host that does not respond","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://simplynzbs.com/"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"Was Newznab-compatible ('The SimplyNZBs API is compatible with ...' in its own invite page). Today the host redirects to a parking subdomain and /api?t=caps is answered by the same non-API redirect.","endpoint":"https://simplynzbs.com/api","tooling":"Nothing to configure: Prowlarr and NZBHydra2 cannot reach an indexer that does not answer.","chaining":"Nothing: removed from the stack.","limits":[{"kind":"request-rate","value":"10 API hits and 5 NZB downloads per day (historical, invite-gated)","source":"https://www.cabalcartel.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=15679"}],"limits_note":"","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"The service is gone, so the binding constraint is the one that killed it: no reachable write path at all. Recorded as write-gated because the vocabulary has no 'offline' kind and the verdict field carries that fact.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"Was invite-only: 'weekly 50 users get 10 invites each' plus a paid bypass. Today no registration path answers.","country":null},"reliability_note":"Dead: the name now redirects to a parking host. A client that still has it configured follows the redirect and gets a Cloudflare 520 or an empty result, not an auth error.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"The redirect to a parking subdomain was observed today, and that is strong evidence of a lapsed domain. The rung stays reported because the authoritative statement of death ('no longer operational as of 2024-2025') is third-party; the redirect alone does not date it.","evidence":[{"url":"probe:https://simplynzbs.com/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the request redirects to http://ww80.simplynzbs.com/?subid1=ba516fd4-ce86-11f1-9da0-c6ff21bde0c4, a parking host, which then fails with Cloudflare 520 'origin returned an unknown or empty response'"},{"url":"probe:https://simplynzbs.com/api?t=caps","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"no Newznab document: the same redirect applies, so no API is served"},{"url":"https://usenetreviewz.com/simplynzb-review/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"third-party: 'SimplyNZB is no longer operational as of 2024-2025'"},{"url":"https://nzbhydra.com/indexers/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"third-party, still listing it: 'registration closed', 'VIP GBP 5 donation', '10 hits'"}],"verdict":"dead","extras":{"price":"GBP 5 lifetime VIP (historical)","nzb_is_newznab":true,"death_signal":"domain redirects to a parking host (ww80.simplynzbs.com) which answers 520","probe_sequence":"an earlier request in the same session returned a 504 from the broker; the later one showed the redirect. Both were kept rather than the first one reported as the truth."},"notes":"The verdict changed while the record was being written: the first two probes returned a 504, which reads as 'down', and a later probe returned 200 on the first hop, which looked like 'up'. Reading the redirect target settled it - the 200 was a redirect to a parking service. A session that stopped at the first probe would have written a different and wrong reason.","verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:11:54.066Z","topic":"debrid","price_per_tb_month":null},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}