beygir.com
Beygir.com was a Turkish horse-racing data and prediction website that launched in 1999, became an early sports-data brand, and ended regular publishing in November 2017.
What was Beygir.com built to do?
Beygir.com helped horse-racing fans study races with data instead of looking at only short race cards.
The service grew from an earlier software project that stored facts about horses, race history, age, times, and past results.
Erdem Yurdanur later explained that this early horse database became Beygir.com when his team moved the idea onto the web in 1999.
That simple start matters because the site was built around searchable information, not just daily news.
Users could follow racing programs, results, gallops, statistics, records, comments, and predictions in one place.
For a racing fan, that made the site useful before a race, during a race day, and after results were known.
Why did Beygir.com matter in Turkey's early web years?
Beygir.com arrived when the Turkish consumer internet was still young, so a deep sports database was a more unusual product than it is today.
The site gave people a reason to come back every race day because the data changed all the time.
That repeat habit is one reason sports-data sites can build strong audiences without relying on long articles.
Beygir.com also won first place for Best Entertainment and Games Site at the first Altın Örümcek awards in 2002.
The award shows that the brand had already earned attention beyond its core group of racing fans.
Its wider importance becomes clearer when you look at the history of Kokteyl, the technology company behind several major Turkish sports sites.
Kokteyl says its story took shape with Beygir.com before Mackolik.com became its larger consumer success.
In that sense, Beygir.com was also a test bed for a much bigger sports-media model.
Who was behind Beygir.com?
The project was tied to the founders and teams that later built Mackolik.com and Sahadan.com.
Yurdanur describes Beygir.com, Mackolik.com, and Sahadan.com as products of the same push to build direct-to-user internet businesses.
A later Mackolik public offering document also listed beygir.com among the domains registered in Mackolik's name.
This link is important because it places Beygir.com inside a larger sports-data business, not as a small stand-alone racing blog.
The teams learned how to collect data, turn it into useful screens, and give sports fans a reason to visit often.
That pattern later became normal across live-score apps, sports-stat sites, and mobile sports products.
When and why did Beygir.com close?
Beygir.com announced the end of its publishing run on November 13, 2017.
A report published that day said the site had stopped race predictions for about two months before the final goodbye.
The closing message said the service had covered more than 6,000 race days and 18 Gazi race days during its long run.
It also looked back on famous horses and major international races that had passed through its pages.
Public reports about the closure did not give a clear business reason for the shutdown, so claims about the exact cause should be treated with care.
The safest conclusion is simple: the editorial and racing-data service ended, but the domain did not vanish from company records right away.
Is Beygir.com still active today?
As of September 2026, Beygir.com does not appear to be operating as the old live horse-racing service.
A direct web check fails to load the current site, and independent uptime records have also reported the domain as unavailable.
Some old directory pages still describe Beygir.com as a horse-racing site, but those descriptions reflect its past service.
This is why search results can look confusing if you only read a short snippet.
A registered domain can survive for years even when the old website behind it is no longer publishing.
So visitors should not assume that an old Beygir.com result leads to a working racing database today.
What was the real legacy of Beygir.com?
The strongest legacy is not a single prediction, horse profile, or race result.
Beygir.com showed that a focused sports database could become a daily consumer product.
Its founders started with one narrow problem: help racing fans understand horses through organized data.
They then used the same basic idea in broader sports products where live scores, stats, and repeat visits became central.
That makes Beygir.com a useful example of how a small niche can teach a team how to build for a much larger market.
The site also shows why old web brands can still have value after they close, because their names remain tied to user habits, search history, and company history.
For people researching Turkish internet history, Beygir.com is best understood as an early data-first sports platform whose ideas outlived the site itself.