diff --git a/dns/firedns/Makefile b/dns/firedns/Makefile
index ed4bd3467508..08c272cf1668 100644
--- a/dns/firedns/Makefile
+++ b/dns/firedns/Makefile
@@ -1,29 +1,32 @@
 PORTNAME=	firedns
 PORTVERSION=	0.9.12
 PORTREVISION=	1
 CATEGORIES=	dns devel
 MASTER_SITES=	https://BSDforge.com/projects/source/dns/firedns/ \
 		http://www.firestuff.org/projects/ \
 		http://www.wa.apana.org.au/~dean/sources/ \
 		ftp://ftp.wa.apana.org.au/pub/pc/unix/packages/
 
 MAINTAINER=	dean@odyssey.apana.org.au
 COMMENT=	C library for handling asynchronous DNS queries
 WWW=		https://www.firestuff.org/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/GPL
 
+DEPRECATED=	Abandonware, upstream is gone and last release in 2004 and it also depends on unfetchable misc/firestring. Consider dns/c-ares
+EXPIRATION_DATE=2024-04-30
+
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${LOCALBASE}/include/firestring.h:misc/firestring
 
 USES=		tar:bzip2
 HAS_CONFIGURE=	yes
 CONFIGURE_ENV=	MANDIR="${PREFIX}/share/man"
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/${PORTNAME}
 
 pre-configure:
 	@-${RM} ${WRKSRC}/firemake/*.orig
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>