The frustrating thing about a program closing:
 

...most of the time the goodbye email doesn't specify which sites they run, leaving you wondering which of the 500+ sites you're promoting is about to disappear.

Then you load the program website and there's a boilerplate message saying they're closed, with no way to see what sites they had.

:Oh crap

That does blow.

I guess the only away around that is if you're using gmail or something, hopefully you can search your email for that address and look for previous site announcements from them.

Of course, they probably weren't sending out site announcements, which may be one of the reasons they're now dead in the water.

You could try using www.archive.org and see their old pages. Thats what I do.

example: PIBCash sites list.
http://web.archive.org/web/200302100...com/folio.html

On my phone so can't look but doesn't whopaidme.com and possibly daizzzy list that info?

are you talking about iguanabucks? they just sent me a closure letter

Been there and know what you mean.

Something I did in the past is make a spreadsheet that had a list of all the sites I promote and the companies they belong to. Now I am transfering that info over to TALS (see Zorgman's sig for this product). When you create a new outgoing link you give it a name. I name them something like this: Bang Her Butt - Sponsor Cash. I put the program name after each site name. Then when I get an email like that it is easy to go through and change a few links for those sites.

exactly, start organising your sponsors. Create a database entry for each sponsor containing, sites/urls/contactinfo/etc etc

It helps a lot in cases like this. "1 click -> all offline" actions rock!

TALS v2 is great for quickly redirecting traffic from died programs. Specially if you have hundreds of pages.