Link rot (also called link death, link breaking, or reference rot) is the phenomenon of hyperlinks tending over time to cease to point to their originally targeted file, web page, or server due to that resource being relocated to a new address or becoming permanently unavailable. A link that no longer points to its target, often called a broken or dead link (or sometimes orphan link), is a ...

Software rot, a form of bit rot; Disk rot, also called CD Rot or DVD rot, the physical decay of optical disks; Link rot, hyperlinks becoming broken; Music. Rot, an album by German rapper Sabrina Setlur; Rot, an album by the German band [:SITD:] Rotting, by the Brazilian metal band Sarcofago "Rot", a song by Northlane in 2015 album Node