10 Websites that Closed in 2010

10. E-Victims. A charity website geared towards helping individuals who were victims of internet crimes was forced to close due to a lack of funds. A British based website, run by founder Jennifer Perry, was unable secure funds to operate. Perry, however, will continue her work off the net including consulting with city officials and talking to judges and other officials about domestic abuse victims being stalked online. The website has been in existence since January 2007, and has won local community awards in Perry's city.

9. Sky Songs . Aimed to be iTunes's music rival, Sky Songs' subscription service was forced to close after being unable to effectively compete with Apple's iTunes. The service was launched in October 2009 and in that time had only been able to attract less than 10,000 subscribers. The UK based service offered subscribers unlimited, ad-free access to stream music and included five mp3 downloads for around $8 USD per month. The website announced that the full closure of the service would be in February of 2011.

8. Black Hawk Safety Net.A Chinese website used to teach individuals how to hack websites by launching cyber attacks and how to implant or spread malicious software was closed by the Chinese government in February 2010. The arrest took place after Google was taken down in China after Google alleged that China-based hackers were attempting to hack Google's mail service to obtain the private e-mails of U.S. businesses and prominent Chinese human right activists. The website was established in 2005 and had over 12,000 paying members.

7. Fashionair. Co-founded by American Idol creator, Simon Fuller, was a luxury fashion website along with Sojin Lee, who once worked for another luxury fashion website, net-a-porter.com. Fashionair was an entertainment site for fashionistas featuring everything from upcoming films and news in the fashion world. The website was notable for its "Seven days of fashion" series, where an industry expert would show an outfit they handpicked for everyday of the week.

6. Fitfinder. UK social networking website, similar to Facebook when it first started, was a student run website. The website, made by a computer science university student, was forced to close doors after various complaints from several universities were made about the website distracting students. The owner of the site was fined by his own university and took down the site for fear his degree may be in jeopardy if he didn't

5. The Pirate City. A website popular as a place to download pirated versions of popular TV shows and movies was removed from the web after a large scale crackdown on pirated content offered on the internet by Federal investigators. Pirate City was one of nine websites seized in July 2010, who were targeting sites offering Toy Story 3 and Iron Man 2 downloads within hours of the movies premiere.

4. Brittany Murphy Foundation . After the death of the actress, her widower, Simon Monjack, set up the Brittany Murphy Foundation as a charity supporting arts education for children and began accepting donations through the website. It was later revealed, by Entertainment website TMZ, that the foundation was never registered as a non-profit organization through the State of California or the IRS as is required by law. When this was revealed the website was closed and a notice stating that all funds would be returned was left at the address. Later in the year, Monjack mysteriously passed away, from the same cause as his late wife, anemia and pneumonia.

3. RevolutionMuslim. The radical Islamic website was closed after it was blamed for inspiring Roshonara Choudry, to stab a British MP, Stephen Timms. Additionally, it was later revealed by counter-terrorism specialists in the United States (where the site was hosted) that at least one third of the 50 individuals arrested in America over the last year as terror suspects were involved with the English language website.

2. Craigslist. While the actual website didn't closed the "adult services" section of the website was removed in September 2010, after getting a lot of bad press following the high profile case of Philip Markoff who was accused of murdering a masseuse he met off the site. Attorney generals in 18 states pressured the website to do so as most of the posts were for illegal prostitution ads.

1. Wikileaks. The website known for posting classified government documents and videos otherwise unavailable from anonymous sources and news leaks was shuttered this year various times, first by distributed denial of service attacks, and later by it's own internet host, Amazon. Amazon closed the website for violating the host's "terms of service," although many suggested it was due to political pressure. The site was ousted by their former Swedish host, and has struggled to stay live since posting U.S. cables that revealed a host of classified date. Paypal and major credit cards have also refused to process donations made to the site.