diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/na/namazu/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/na/namazu/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 9616c9332ba1..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/na/namazu/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-{
-  fetchurl,
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  perl,
-  perlPackages,
-  makeWrapper,
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "namazu";
-  version = "2.0.21";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://namazu.org/stable/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1xvi7hrprdchdpzhg3fvk4yifaakzgydza5c0m50h1yvg6vay62w";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    perl
-    perlPackages.FileMMagic
-  ];
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
-
-  postInstall = ''
-    wrapProgram $out/bin/mknmz --set PERL5LIB ${
-      perlPackages.makeFullPerlPath [ perlPackages.FileMMagic ]
-    }
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Full-text search engine";
-
-    longDescription = ''
-      Namazu is a full-text search engine intended for easy use.  Not
-      only does it work as a small or medium scale Web search engine,
-      but also as a personal search system for email or other files.
-    '';
-
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
-    homepage = "http://namazu.org/";
-
-    platforms = lib.platforms.gnu ++ lib.platforms.linux; # arbitrary choice
-    maintainers = [ ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 6a6ac68b11a7..8ebf99e28025 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1590,6 +1590,7 @@ mapAliases {
 
   ### N ###
 
+  namazu = throw "namazu has been removed, as it was broken"; # Added 2025-08-25
   ncdu_2 = ncdu; # Added 2022-07-22
   neocities-cli = neocities; # Added 2024-07-31
   neocomp = throw "neocomp has been remove because it fails to build and was unmaintained upstream"; # Added 2025-04-28