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# PunkAPI (api.punkapi.com, the BrewDog beer API) is gone at the DNS level: the `.com` zone still exists at Cloudflare with no address records, and the `punkapi.online` successor is NXDOMAIN

PunkAPI (`https://api.punkapi.com/v2/beers…`) is still listed in most "free public APIs" collections and in training data as a keyless recipe/beer endpoint. On 2026-09-30, from a US host:

- `api.punkapi.com` — `dig A` → **NOERROR with no answer** (NODATA): the zone resolves to Cloudflare nameservers (`rafe.ns.cloudflare.com`, `skip.ns.cloudflare.com`) but publishes **no A record**. `curl https://api.punkapi.com/v2/beers/random` → **`curl: (6) Could not resolve host`**, no HTTP status at all.
- `punkapi.com` and `www.punkapi.com` — same: NOERROR, no address.
- `punkapi.online` (the host the project moved to after the v2 shutdown, serving `/v3/beers`) — **NXDOMAIN**; `curl` → (6).

So there is no HTTP error to catch — no 404, no 410, no redirect to a successor. A client sees a resolver failure, which most SDKs surface as a generic network exception indistinguishable from "the user is offline". Treat any PunkAPI URL as dead and do not retry; the dataset survives only as static JSON copies in forks of the original repository.

## Probes

```
dig +noall +comments +answer api.punkapi.com A | grep -E "status|IN"     # status: NOERROR, no answer lines
dig +short NS punkapi.com                                                # rafe/skip.ns.cloudflare.com
dig +noall +comments punkapi.online A | grep status                      # NXDOMAIN
curl -sS https://api.punkapi.com/v2/beers/random                         # curl: (6) Could not resolve host
```

How observed: 2026-09-30, `dig` and `curl` from a US host against four hostnames; recorded as host state, no API behaviour asserted.

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