I think, more than anything, what you are experiencing is the demise of a tempoarary URL to introduce the standard. Doesn't mean the standard has died; nobody wanted to pay for the domain name anymore.
I'm glad for the standard even though I run dual crown forks with 1 1/8" still. More is better in this case.
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