areyoufriendswithdavid.com
areyoufriendswithdavid.com was a Roblox friend-path tool that showed how many friendship steps stood between a player and Roblox founder David Baszucki, but the original service is no longer active at the .com domain.
What did areyoufriendswithdavid.com actually do?
The old website asked for a Roblox username and searched the player's social links to find a path toward David Baszucki.
A direct friendship counted as one step, while a friend who knew another friend created a longer chain of two, three, or more steps.
A 2024 Roblox community discussion described areyoufriendswithdavid.com as a “Roblox friend pathfinder” that people used to compare their links with famous players.
The idea worked because Roblox exposes friend information through tools such as GetFriendsAsync, which returns a user's friend IDs, usernames, and display names.
A program can keep checking those friend lists until two social networks meet, which turns thousands of friendships into a searchable graph.
Who was the David in the website's name?
David meant David Baszucki, whom the official Roblox leadership page identifies as the company's founder and chief executive officer.
This made him an ideal target because many Roblox players know his name even when they have never interacted with him.
The website turned that fame into a simple question that anyone could understand: how many friends stand between you and David?
That simple question also gave players a playful example of the “six degrees of separation” idea, where large social networks can connect two people through surprisingly short chains.
How popular did the idea become?
The concept spread far enough that Roblox developers were still discussing areyoufriendswithdavid.com as inspiration for their own friend-search projects in October 2024.
One Roblox Developer Forum discussion specifically mentions the site while developers debate friend-data caching, request limits, and external servers.
Community posts also show players comparing paths of three, four, six, and seven steps to well-known Roblox accounts, which made the result easy to share with friends.
The strongest part of the site was therefore not a large set of features but one result that created a reason to talk, compare, and try another username.
Why is the original website gone?
A history published by FriendPath says the original project was created by a developer known as ImATeapot418 and operated until around 2024.
That account says the project eventually went offline as a small hobby service that faced hosting costs, traffic, and the technical burden of searching many Roblox friend lists.
Those problems are believable because every extra friendship level can require many more network requests, while Roblox developers themselves have discussed rate limits when building similar tools.
The old .com address later changed hands, so the domain name and the original Roblox service should now be treated as two different things.
What is happening with the .com domain now?
As of September 2026, visiting areyoufriendswithdavid.com redirects away from the original friend finder rather than loading the historic Roblox tool.
A public domain lookup recorded the present domain registration on December 18, 2025, with an expiration date of December 18, 2026.
The same lookup found one IPv4 address, zero IPv6 addresses, Australian server infrastructure, and Above.com-related name and mail servers, which are very different signals from an active Roblox application.
Certificate records on Cloudflare Radar also show several different certificate periods across 2024, 2025, and 2026, which fits a domain whose hosting setup has changed over time.
Can you still find your Roblox friendship path today?
Yes, because newer projects have rebuilt the same basic idea even though the original areyoufriendswithdavid.com service is gone.
One current example is FriendPath, which lets users search between two Roblox accounts instead of limiting every search to David Baszucki.
FriendPath says its searches usually place active players about three to six friendship steps apart, although that figure comes from its own observed searches rather than an official Roblox study.
It also adds mutual-friend detection, shareable results, and a network graph, showing how a tiny one-question website grew into a broader way to explore Roblox's social graph.
Why does areyoufriendswithdavid.com still matter?
Its story shows that a useful website does not need hundreds of pages when one clear question can turn complex data into something people instantly understand.
The original tool is gone, but its idea survives because “How close am I to this famous person?” remains much easier to enjoy than thinking about graph databases, search algorithms, APIs, and network theory.