diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/di/dillong/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/di/dillong/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 31e76fa89d40..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/di/dillong/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  autoreconfHook,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  fltk,
-  mbedtls_2,
-  pkg-config,
-  stdenv,
-  which,
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  pname = "dillong";
-  version = "0-unstable-2021-12-13";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "w00fpack";
-    repo = "dilloNG";
-    rev = "2804e6e9074b840de3084abb80473983f8e49f5b";
-    hash = "sha256-JSBd8Lgw3I20Es/jQHBtybnLd0iAcs16TqOrOxGPGiU=";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    autoreconfHook
-    fltk
-    pkg-config
-    which
-  ];
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    fltk
-    mbedtls_2
-  ];
-
-  outputs = [ "out" "doc" "man" ];
-
-  configureFlags = [
-    (lib.enableFeature true "ssl")
-  ];
-
-  strictDeps = true;
-
-  # Workaround build failure on -fno-common toolchains:
-  #   ld: main.o:/build/dillo-3.0.5/dpid/dpid.h:64: multiple definition of `sock_set';
-  #     dpid.o:/build/dillo-3.0.5/dpid/dpid.h:64: first defined here
-  env.NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-fcommon";
-
-  # The start_page and home settings refer to /usr.
-  # We can't change /usr to $out because dillorc is copied to the home directory
-  # on first launch, so the paths would quickly become outdated.
-  # So we just comment them out, and let dillong use the defaults.
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace dillorc \
-      --replace "start_page=" "#start_page=" \
-      --replace "home=" "#home="
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://github.com/w00fpack/dilloNG";
-    description = "Fork of Dillo, a lightweight web browser";
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
-    mainProgram = "dillo";
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ fgaz ];
-    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index a80d55ff72cd..f6e0e334ef2f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ mapAliases {
   dgsh = throw "'dgsh' has been removed, as it was broken and unmaintained"; # added 2024-05-09
   dhcp = throw "dhcp (ISC DHCP) has been removed from nixpkgs, because it reached its end of life"; # Added 2023-04-04
   dibbler = throw "dibbler was removed because it is not maintained anymore"; # Added 2024-05-14
+  dillong = throw "'dillong' has been removed, as upstream is abandoned since 2021-12-13. Use either 'dillo' or 'dillo-plus'. The latter integrates features from dillong."; # Added 2024-10-07
   dnnl = oneDNN; # Added 2020-04-22
   dnscrypt-wrapper = throw "dnscrypt-wrapper was removed because it has been effectively unmaintained since 2018. Use DNSCcrypt support in dnsdist instead"; # Added 2024-09-14
   docker-compose_1 = throw "'docker-compose_1' has been removed because it has been unmaintained since May 2021. Use docker-compose instead."; # Added 2024-07-29