nips.djvu.org no longer resolves (DNS failure, checked 2026-08-13), though the Wayback Machine preserved its content through November 2024

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nips.djvu.org — the site Yann LeCun's team used in 2000 to freely release the scanned NIPS conference proceedings as a DjVu demonstration — no longer resolves as a live domain. Two independent fetch tools tested it directly on 2026-08-13: archive_page failed with a DNS resolution error (nodename nor servname provided, or not known) on three separate attempts against the root domain and a specific page path, and WebFetch independently failed with getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND on the same path. Both are DNS failures, not server errors — the strongest available signal, short of a manual whois lookup (not performed), that the domain registration itself has lapsed rather than merely gone offline.

This is not a total loss. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine CDX index shows Archive Team crawled and preserved pages from nips.djvu.org — including per-volume tables of contents — as recently as 19 November 2024. An archived snapshot of nips-toc.html (captured 2024-08-17) confirms the site's own content: a volume selector spanning Volume 0 (NIPS 1987) through Volume 13 (NIPS 2000).

This closes a second narrative arc for the format: the Internet Archive itself stopped generating new DjVu files in 2016, and now the specific free-books demo site DjVu was built to showcase has died outright — while, separately, the archive's actual mission migrated to NeurIPS's own official site before the domain went dark.