Bento.me shut down on February 13, 2026. Every old URL now sends visitors somewhere else entirely.
A dead link would at least be honest. Instead every path on the domain returns a 301 redirect.
Not to a matching profile. Not to your username. Every single URL collapses to one generic marketing page.
They tap your bio link from a talk slide and land on a signup page. They assume that's what you meant to send them.
Search engines pass ranking through a 301. Every link you earned now credits the company that absorbed your platform.
Your repos, then profile fields elsewhere, then files already sent — a resume PDF or printed badge can't be recalled.
Text takes an hour to retype. A URL printed, emailed and indexed for two years can't be recreated anywhere.
On your own domain, a shutdown costs you a rendering layer — not your address. You repoint DNS and every link keeps working.