Nin.com
nin.com is the official website for Nine Inch Nails. It has had a long and storied history. It is currently in its transitional phase to a The Slip-themed format. All With Teeth-related pages except the Nin.com/visuals page have been removed as of March 24, 2008.
Fragility
During the Fragility period, nin.com was designed with backgrounds and art in the style of the album artwork created by David Carson. The site contained journal entries which were posted on the site by Rob Sheridan, who had been newly hired to update and organize the site, detailing the progress of recording the album, as well as a discussion board. Sound loops from the songs "Starfuckers, Inc." and "The Day The World Went Away" were posted on the site prior to the release of The Fragile and are available here. Images, backgrounds, sound files and screen shots of this version of nin.com have been archived at The NIN Hotline here.
Fragile-era nin.com screen-shots:
pre-With Teeth
From 2004 onwards, prior to the release of With Teeth, nin.com had a sparse and minimalist layout with a plain white background and black smudged typewriter font. The site contained a "Current" section that was updated occasionally with photos and information on the progress of the album, a "Body of Work" section with information on each of the Halos and a visuals section with music videos available for viewing. A Q&A section titled Access was also a feature of the site where members of NIN answered user submitted questions.
nin.com front page
body of work page
With Teeth
In 2005 for the release of With Teeth, nin.com was updated with a front page with links to purchase the album and watch "The Hand That Feeds" video. Viral teaser trailers were also hidden pages on the site, named with lines from songs that would appear on the album.Later, the front page was changed to display photos taken at various destinations on the With Teeth Tour, and called the site "nin.com V6". The pages of the site which had previously had blank backgrounds were changed to With Teeth-style art and the font was also changed. A blog section titled "TR" was added, where Trent would post comments and messages. The Access section continued to be updated by Reznor, with Aaron North and Jerome Dillon answering a set of questions, titled "part one", however, due to Dillon's departure from the band, it was to be the last time the section was updated. The site also contained a downloads section containing desktop backgrounds. All With Teeth-era videos, trailers and downloads can be found here.
nin.com V6 front page
nin.com index
performance page
Year Zero
Following the release of Year Zero, nin.com was updated to V6.9 with a YZ-themed background and font. All previous pages, apart from Performance and Merch were deleted, leaving a basic front page with a photo on. As the Performance 2007 tour began, more pages were added to the site, including a page written in Russian, a page in Chinese and a page in Korean, added as the band performed in the countries for the first time. Links to the Year Zero site and NIN's official youtube account were also added, the former is where live performance videos and video diaries have been uploaded. A photo blog was also added to the front page and updated several times a day during the tour. At present, the band are back in the studio and the front page of nin.com is updated periodically with messages from Trent, photos and Youtube videos showing work in the studio. Additionally, site visitors may comment on the current picture.
Here is the archive of all images posted on the 6.9 version of nin.com:
Front page
Front page
Tour page
Year Zero Korea
Ghosts I–IV
On announcement and immediate release of the new album, Ghosts I–IV, in March 2008, the site was altered so that it had an album-themed design. The site still contains links to all Year Zero pages as well as an additional Ghosts I–IV player and a link to the new official NIN flickr page and a page containing RSS feeds.
We have a compiled a current and updated list of all pictures posted on the Ghosts version of nin.com. This is the nin.com picture archive:
04/04/08: Welcome Back!
04/07/08: Today's News
04/07/08: Josh Freese In Action
04/08/08: Four Guys Up To Something
04/11/08: nin.com, the spiral, pre-sales
04/22/08: New single
04/23/08: The three of us will destroy you!
Sub-sites
Over the years, nin.com has had various sub-sites to coincide with releases. Here is a list of all sites linked with nin.com:
- thefragile.com - set up in 1999 to promote the release of The Fragile
- thingsfallingapart.com - set up in 2000 to promote the release of Things Falling Apart
- andallthatcouldhavebeen.com - set up in 2001 to promote the release of And All That Could Have Been
- tds.nin.com - set up in 2004 to promote the re-release of The Downward Spiral
- Nin.com/access - a page on nin.com V6 where Trent Reznor posted responses to questions.
- Nin.com/visuals - page from the With Teeth-era website which is still operational, has numerous music videos visuals
- nin.com/with_teeth - set up in 2005 for the release of With Teeth
- halo22.nin.com - set up in 2007 for the release of Beside You In Time
- yearzero.nin.com - set up in 2007 to promote Year Zero (see also List of Year Zero pages
- remix.nin.com (and yearzero.nin.com/remix) - set up in 2007 to coincide with the release of Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D
- ghosts.nin.com - created in 2008 for the release of Ghosts I–IV
- discipline.nin.com - created April 22 2008 for the free release of "Discipline", contained various pages for individual radio stations to link to. Now redirects to theslip.nin.com
- theslip.nin.com - created May 5th 2008 for the free release of The Slip.
- lightsinthesky.nin.com - created June 5th for the free promotional release of Lights In The Sky
Official Accounts
NIN has official accounts at the following locations: