Mozilla Solo shutting down: 54,000 sites deleted Nov 30
Mozilla is closing Solo, its AI website builder, and deleting every site on 30 November. Here is what the 54,000 users can export and how to move a domain.
SUMO· the number puzzle
Dialo· learn languages by speaking
ediviewer· read EDI files like documents
giftdetect· the right gift in minutesIf you built a website with Mozilla Solo, save it now. Mozilla is closing the AI-powered site builder and hosting service, and every site and all its data will be deleted on 30 November 2026.
Solo launched in December 2023 as a "Mozilla Innovation Project". The idea was simple: a sole trader describes their business, a large language model builds the page, and Mozilla hosts it, even under a custom domain. About 54,000 people used it. That, it seems, was not enough.
The Soloist.ai homepage now says the company has made "the difficult decision to close Solo". Mozilla says it first told users on 1 October and gave them a 60-day transition period. With today's date, that leaves just over two weeks.
How do I export my Solo website?
According to the support FAQ, you can download a ZIP file containing an HTML export of your site, plus contact form and newsletter submissions, and a CSV file that links to your images. The images themselves are not in the ZIP. You have to download them separately.
The FAQ does not say how much work it takes to turn that HTML into a complete, working site somewhere else. For the non-technical users Solo was aimed at, that could be the hard part. Mozilla does point to a couple of other AI site generators as alternatives.
What happens to my Solo domain?
Domains bought through Solo Domains have to move to Name.com. Mozilla handles the transfer, but you first need to create a Name.com account and supply the transfer code. So the fiddly bits are not entirely taken care of after all.
Mozilla told The Register that experimentation is part of its mission, and that sometimes means ending a product. It says it has been helping customers download their data and move domains to another provider.
The deadline is fixed: 30 November 2026. After that, the pages are gone.
Apps worth a look
SUMO: the number puzzleTap the right tiles, add them up, hit the target. Easy to learn, hard to master. Free, for all ages.
Dialo: learn languages by speakingTalk to an AI conversation partner; every sentence comes back corrected and explained in your language. 9 languages, A1 to C2.
ediviewer: read EDI files like documentsOpen EDIFACT and X12 messages, see every segment explained, convert to JSON/XML, export PDF and Excel. Runs locally, no upload.
giftdetect: the right gift in minutesPick who it is for, the occasion and their personality. The search engine reads product descriptions from local shops and ranks what fits. Free, no sign-up.
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