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ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down

ICQ will stop working on June 26. It's encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.

It now recommends users migrate to the messaging platforms from VK, the Russian social media company that acquired ICQ from AOL in 2010, but under a different corporate name. ICQ, which stands for "I Seek You," was originally developed at an Israeli company called Mirabilis before AOL bought it in 1998 for $407 million. In 2010, VK bought ICQ with the goal of revitalizing it since the instant messaging app had been quite popular in Russia.

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