diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9eb2b88..20e4e1c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -81,8 +81,10 @@ started earlier pulls whatever image the registry held before, which is stale.
    more after 5 s (`DEPLOY_RECREATE_RETRY_DELAY`). Compose's parallel recreate can lose
    a container it just renamed and leave the rest stopped. If the second attempt fails
    too, the container states are printed and the deploy fails.
-4. Reconciles `registry`, `apt-cacher-ng` and `signal-api`: each is recreated only if its
+4. Reconciles `apt-cacher-ng` and `signal-api`: each is recreated only if its
    definition changed. It never touches `postgres` or `redis`.
+   It then removes services netOrk no longer ships, container and volume, where a host
+   still has them: today the bundled `registry` (NetOrk/netork#763).
 5. Verifies that the containers run exactly the image that was pulled. If they don't, the
    deploy fails.
 6. Records `REGISTRY_HOST` and `NETORK_VERSION` in `~/netork/.env`, so that a
diff --git a/deploy.sh b/deploy.sh
index 2c72f73..229c40a 100644
--- a/deploy.sh
+++ b/deploy.sh
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ deploy_steps() {
   # Containers on upstream images. Reconciled, not force-recreated (below).
   # postgres and redis are deliberately absent: restarting a database on every
   # deploy would be worse than any compose change one could miss.
-  local INFRA_SERVICES="registry apt-cacher-ng signal-api"
+  local INFRA_SERVICES="apt-cacher-ng signal-api"
 
   echo "[${SERVER}] Pulling images..."
   run_remote "$SERVER" "pulling images for ${SERVER_VERSION}" 'Pulled|Already|Error' \
@@ -311,6 +311,24 @@ deploy_steps() {
     docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.registry.yml \
       up -d --no-deps ${INFRA_SERVICES}" || true
 
+  # Services netOrk no longer ships, with the data only they used. `docker
+  # compose up` never removes a container whose service has left the compose
+  # file, so each would keep running on every host until someone removed it by
+  # hand. Idempotent: a host that never had one, or was cleaned already, passes
+  # untouched. Containers first; a volume still in use cannot be removed.
+  #   registry (netork-registry-1, netork_registry_data): the bundled registry:2
+  #     for satellite images. Satellites pull from registry.netork.io; it held one
+  #     old image, nothing had pulled from it in 30 days, and it accepted
+  #     anonymous pushes on port 5000 (NetOrk/netork#763).
+  local RETIRED_CONTAINERS="netork-registry-1"
+  local RETIRED_VOLUMES="netork_registry_data"
+  echo "[${SERVER}] Removing retired services..."
+  run_remote "$SERVER" "removing ${RETIRED_CONTAINERS} ${RETIRED_VOLUMES}" "" \
+    "for c in ${RETIRED_CONTAINERS}; do \
+       docker rm -f \$c >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo \"removed container \$c\"; done; \
+     for v in ${RETIRED_VOLUMES}; do \
+       docker volume rm \$v >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo \"removed volume \$v\"; done; true" || true
+
   # Verify the containers actually run the image we just pulled. `docker
   # compose up -d` reports "Running" (not "Started") when it decides nothing
   # changed, and `pull` prints "Pulled" even when the tag was already local —
diff --git a/tests/test_deploy_retired_services.py b/tests/test_deploy_retired_services.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..75eab06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_deploy_retired_services.py
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+"""A service netOrk no longer ships is removed from the host (NetOrk/netork#763).
+
+`docker compose up` never removes a container whose service has left the compose
+file, so it would keep running on every host until somebody removed it by hand.
+The first of these is the bundled `registry:2`: it held only an old satellite
+image, nothing had pulled from it in 30 days, and it accepted anonymous pushes on
+port 5000 of every instance.
+
+The remote side is a fake `ssh` that records every command it is given.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+import subprocess
+from pathlib import Path
+
+DEPLOY = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "deploy.sh"
+
+_FAKE_SSH = """#!/bin/sh
+for arg in "$@"; do cmd="$arg"; done
+# The host lock's holder runs for real, here (test_deploy_host_lock.py).
+case "$cmd" in *.deploy.lock*) exec sh -c "$cmd" ;; esac
+cat > /dev/null
+printf '%s\\n----\\n' "$cmd" >> "{state}/commands"
+exit 0
+"""
+
+
+def _deploy(tmp_path: Path) -> tuple[subprocess.CompletedProcess[str], list[str]]:
+    bin_dir = tmp_path / "bin"
+    bin_dir.mkdir()
+    fake = bin_dir / "ssh"
+    fake.write_text(_FAKE_SSH.replace("{state}", str(tmp_path)))
+    fake.chmod(0o755)
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        ["bash", str(DEPLOY), "testhost"],
+        env={
+            "PATH": f"{bin_dir}:{os.environ['PATH']}",
+            "HOME": str(tmp_path),
+            "DEPLOY_ENV_FILE": "/dev/null",
+            "REGISTRY_HOST": "registry.example",
+            "NETORK_VERSION": "latest-dev",
+        },
+        stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+        timeout=60,
+        check=False,
+    )
+    commands = (tmp_path / "commands").read_text().split("\n----\n")
+    return result, commands
+
+
+def test_a_deploy_removes_the_retired_registry_and_its_volume(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    result, commands = _deploy(tmp_path)
+
+    assert result.returncode == 0, result.stderr
+    removal = [c for c in commands if "netork-registry-1" in c]
+    assert removal, "no command removes the netork-registry-1 container"
+    assert "docker rm -f" in removal[0]
+    assert "docker volume rm" in removal[0] and "netork_registry_data" in removal[0]
+    # The container goes first: a volume still in use cannot be removed.
+    assert removal[0].index("docker rm -f") < removal[0].index("docker volume rm")
+
+
+def test_the_infrastructure_reconcile_no_longer_starts_the_registry(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    result, commands = _deploy(tmp_path)
+
+    assert result.returncode == 0, result.stderr
+    reconcile = [c for c in commands if "up -d --no-deps" in c and "--force-recreate" not in c]
+    assert reconcile, "the infrastructure reconcile step is missing"
+    assert " registry" not in reconcile[0].split("up -d --no-deps", 1)[1]