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Photos.com shutting down as of March 10, 2014

 
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Feb 24, 2014 10:07 |  #1

Just got the email as of March 10th they are no longer. Current subscriber will be transferred to the sister site ThinkStock.

Dear Photos.com Member,

Thanks for using Photos.com. We are writing to let you know that as of March 10, 2014, www.photos.com (external link) will be shutting down.

As an existing Photos.com customer, any active Image Packs and Subscriptions will be transferred to our sister site Thinkstock. Thinkstock offers millions of premium art-directed and user-generated royalty-free photos, vectors and illustrations selected from Getty Images, iStock and our worldwide image partners.

In the meantime, you can continue to download files on Photos.com until March 10.

For more information on this site closure, please refer to our FAQs.

Thank you for your support.

Photos.com Service




  
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Mar 18, 2014 09:36 |  #2

such an awesome domain name, why shut it down?


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Mar 23, 2014 07:28 |  #3

If you go to the URL, it appears that Getty has purchased it.


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