Every CS2 skin marketplace and gambling site whose closure we have verified — when it died, what happened to user balances, and the evidence. Sites vanish in this market without press releases; this page is the record that outlives them. No entry is added on rumour: the bar is the operator's own notice, DNS, or WHOIS.
9Verified closures
61Live operators monitored
2025–26Deadliest stretch on record
The record
Newest first. Closed domains are printed but deliberately not linked — a lapsed domain can be re-registered by anyone, and several dead brands already attract impersonators. Each entry links to our full page on that site instead.
2026Gambling site
CSGOStakecsgostake.com
CSGOStake and RustStake both shut down. The domain now serves only a farewell notice from the operators.
How we verified it: csgostake.com serves a static closure page from GitHub Pages reading "After five years, CSGOSTAKE and RUSTSTAKE are closing. Thank you for being part of the run, 2021-2026."
BitSkins announced its closure on May 27, 2026 and took withdrawals offline on June 30, 2026, citing tightening legal regulations and VAT impositions. Wallet deposits were declared non-refundable and remaining balances require manual recovery through support; exit-scam accusations circulate on Trustpilot. One of the oldest marketplaces (2013), retained here as a historical record.
GamerPay shut down permanently on May 29, 2026 (trading ended May 8) after its November 2025 acquisition by Social First, citing low traffic and unprofitable fees. Users were refunded. It was an EU marketplace known for verified items and instant payouts; this page remains as a historical record and alternatives guide.
The site stopped serving content. Archived pages describe Rust and crypto skin gambling; nothing is served now.
How we verified it: skinbet.gg returns a bare "Error: Page not found" in a real browser — no navigation, no branding. Last good archive capture 26 November 2025.
LootBear closed on May 31, 2025 and was absorbed into Tradeit.gg — lootbear.com now redirects there, user balances were not transferred, and its skin-rental model no longer exists anywhere on the market. This page remains as a historical record of the rental era and an alternatives guide.
An unreachable site is not a dead site. Several live CS2 operators geo-block or bot-block server-side requests — an automated audit of ours in July 2026 produced five false negatives from curl alone, including one of the largest gambling sites in the market. So a failed request, on its own, proves nothing about the operator and never puts a site on this page.
The bar for entry is primary evidence:the operator's own closure notice on its domain; DNS records showing the domain no longer resolves or now redirects to an acquirer; or WHOIS showing the registration has lapsed entirely. Archive captures date the last time the site was demonstrably alive. Each entry above names the specific evidence behind it, and the gambling-site records were last re-verified on 31 July 2026.
Between audits, an automated monitorchecks every active operator's own domain several times a day and powers the “last seen up” stamps on our trading-site and gambling reviews. The monitor records reachability only. When it loses a site, a human investigates against DNS and WHOIS — promotion to this graveyard is an editorial decision, never an automated one.
Citing this page:the closure dates and evidence above are maintained as a historical record and re-verified against primary sources. If you are covering a marketplace or gambling-site closure, you are welcome to cite or link this page; each entry's full-record link carries the complete account of that closure.
Graveyard FAQ
How does CSDB verify that a CS2 site has shut down?
Only from primary evidence: the operator's own closure notice, DNS records (a domain that no longer resolves, or that redirects to an acquirer), or WHOIS (a registration that has lapsed entirely). We never list a site as closed because a request failed — several live operators geo-block or bot-block automated checks, so an unreachable site and a dead site are different findings. Each entry above states the specific evidence behind it.
Can I recover skins or a balance from a closed site?
Almost never, and be extremely wary of anyone who says otherwise. Closed brands attract impersonators offering “recovery” in exchange for your Steam login, API key, or a payment. Where a wind-down did return funds — GamerPay refunded users in 2026 — the entry above says so; where deposits were declared non-refundable, as at BitSkins, it says that too. Never hand credentials to a third party to recover an account on a dead site.
Why do closed sites keep review pages on CSDB?
Because someone searching a dead brand deserves to learn it is dead — when it closed, what happened to balances, and what the evidence is — rather than landing on a stale list that still recommends it. Each closed site keeps its page as a historical record, is clearly marked as closed, and is never linked as an offer.
How current is this record?
The gambling-site closures were last verified against DNS, WHOIS and archive captures on 31 July 2026; the marketplace records carry their own dates. In between manual audits, an automated monitor checks every active operator's own domain several times a day and feeds the “last seen up” stamps on our review pages — but a human, not the monitor, decides when a site enters this graveyard.