TechCrunch: Russian authorities block paywall removal site Archive.today. “Paywall bypass website Archive.today and several of its associated domains (including .is and .ph) have been blocked by Russian authorities, according to error pages that appeared when loading its websites. The pages appear blocked as of Monday when TechCrunch visited the websites from the U.S. East Coast. “

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@iampytest1/116280639245477865

CloudFlare has designated archive.today as a "Command and Control & Botnet", blocking it for their 1.1.1.2 DNS server, which markets itself as blocking known malicious domains.
It is not blocked on the unfiltered 1.1.1.1.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/archive.today

Confirmed with my DNS checker tool:

#archivetoday

archive.today's domains now show a message claiming they have been seized by the Russian government.

If you have any information about this, please contact me.

Over the last week I have been dealing with a family emergency and haven't been following the archive.today news, so I had no idea this happened.

The page suggests going to blocklist.rkn.gov.ru for more information, which does not load when accessed from the United States.

#archivetoday

每日必做+1(其实是随缘2333)：将我的实例的新帖子通过Archive Page插件备份到archive.today

#ArchiveToday

What website archiving services do people use [multiple choice]?

#WaybackMachine #Megalodon #GhostArchive #ArchiveToday #WebArchiving #Archivism #Poll

English Wikipedia has pulled the plug on using archive.today links to archive websites after the site used scripts to involve users in a DDoS attack on a critical blog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-blacklist-archive-today-after-site-maintainer-ddosed-a-blog/

#ArchiveDotToday #ArchiveDotIs #ArchiveToday #ArchiveIs #Wikipedia #DDoS #DistributedDenialOfServiceAttack #ArsTechnica

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