Mozilla is shutting down Solo, its AI-powered website builder and hosting service, on November 30, 2026. Launched in 2023 as an experimental project for sole traders, Solo helped about 54,000 people create websites and hosted them, including for customers using custom domains. Mozilla says it notified users on October 1 and is providing a 60-day transition period. After the shutdown, all sites and associated data will be deleted, so owners must move their content and domains before the deadline.
Users can download a ZIP containing an HTML version of their site, contact-form and newsletter submissions, plus a CSV that identifies image links; the image files themselves need to be retrieved separately. Domains bought through Solo must be transferred to Name.com, requiring users to create an account and provide a transfer code. The migration process could be difficult for the less technical customers Solo was designed to serve, and the available guidance does not establish how much work is needed to make an exported site fully functional elsewhere. Mozilla frames the closure as a normal consequence of experimentation and says it is offering migration support. The shutdown also raises the question of whether a commercial partner or paid transfer service could have eased the burden, though maintaining the service would have carried ongoing costs.
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