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.
Oddly, I don't get the message when I access it via Tor. A friend who also lives in the US tested it and didn't get the takedown message either.
I am going to look really stupid panic emailing Jani and archive.today about something which might turn out to be nothing.
I poked at this for a minute or two when my students were doing a lab.
Looks like it depends on who you're using for DNS. Quad 1 (cloudflare) comes up to the Russian takedown page; the others I tested went to the right page.
@johntimaeus Very interesting.
I think this is the reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474255
Though oddly I still get the warning when using AdGuard DNS.
Also, this article says it doesn't resolve, but my testing profile clearly does resolve (to the takedown page) and it defaulted to CloudFlare since that's what Firefox uses by default.
But I'm wondering why it points to a Russian language takedown page.
I'm in a pub having beer. I may look a little deeper later, just because it's a weird thing for DNS to do.
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John Timaeus