# DerbyWheel website disappears: is this how it ends?

*By Simon | May 31, 2026*

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## 󠀁[DerbyWheel website disappears: is this how it ends?](https://globalkeirin.com/2026/05/derbywheel-website-disappears-is-this-how-it-ends/)󠁿

31 May 2026

At some point last week, on or around May 28th, the derbywheel.com website was
replaced by an error message from its hosting provider Wix, declaring: ‘Looks
like this domain isn’t connected to a website yet.’

The _Global Keirin_ editorial staff wasn’t immediately concerned: maybe it was
even a good sign. Switching over to a new website can sometimes mean a brief
moment of downtime, as details of the new site and its location spread across
the internet.

Or it could be a simple administrative oversight. Automated renewals can fail
for all sorts of reasons, such as an expired credit card number. Not even Google
and Microsoft are entirely immune to forgotten online renewals.

But several days later, the same error message is still being displayed; and
_Global Keirin_ has not received any hints of a major new announcement being
imminent.

**Even at our most optimistic, we can’t interpret this as a good sign.**

The only logical conclusions are that the company’s Wix hosting account has
expired, and nobody has noticed… or the account has been knowingly allowed to
expire.

_Global Keirin_‘s continuous tracking shows that the website had not been edited
in over three months; and it was over two years since the last update was posted
in its News section – although the website had carried various communications
since then, including the pledge last year that ‘
[DerbyWheel will be implemented](https://globalkeirin.com/2025/10/derbywheel-will-be-implemented-new-launch-plan-promised-for-2026/)
‘.

The derbywheel.com domain name, last updated in November 2025, is not due to
expire until December 2027.

The separate [DerbyWheelPlayer.com](https://www.derbywheelplayer.com) website,
which also uses Wix for its hosting, remains active – although it still declares
‘First DerbyWheel season begins 2025’, so the word ‘active’ is carrying a lot of
weight there.

If this is the end of the DerbyWheel dream, it’s ironic that it should come
barely a week before the
[start of Japan’s Keirin World Series](https://globalkeirin.com/2026/04/foreign-riders-will-face-veterans-and-future-stars-in-first-japanese-races/)
, with six lucky international stars being invited to participate in mid-ranking
Japanese domestic competition.

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