archive.is is being seized by the FBI.

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Featured on Nov 6, 2025 by notorietus: The FBI has issued a subpoena to the registrar Tucows regarding who owns archive.today.
MOD EDIT: They are using this to Subpoena someone archiving CSAM, not the creator of archive.today:
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Not A Cat Person said:
Active link to the tweet on xitter: https://x.com/archiveis/status/1984093883056422993
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https://archive.is/QVwvK (not only is archive.is not down, but it still works)

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According to this, they're looking for customer/donor data. Since their donations are in Monero, I think the glowies will have a hard time tracking them down.

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Oh. That's what they're after: someone is using this to archive child pornography.
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It is one of the most mysterious and, at the same time, best-known websites on the internet. Archive.today has built up a user base over a period of more than ten years who use the service to access previous snapshots of a web page. So basically like the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive, only largely free of rules and presumably therefore also anonymous. To the chagrin of the media industry, the service is also often used to bypass paywalls. This is also possible because the service does not adhere to common rules and laws and offers no opt-out option.


And so far, the operators have gotten away with it. Although there have been minor problems in the history of the service occasionally, for example, a top-level domain operator denied them further use of one of the many archive domains. However, the operation of the project, which is allegedly financed by donations and own funds, was not seriously endangered.

Court Order in the USA​

But now the operators of archive.today are apparently fearing bigger trouble. In recent months and years, they had become noticeably quieter. Until two years ago, for example, questions were regularly answered in the blog. In the official X account, which had been silent for over a year, a new post appeared at the end of October new post. “Canary,” it said there, along with a URL. The mentioned canary bird is likely an allusion to an old custom in mining. A canary brought along warned the miners when it keeled over dead about the threat of invisible gas.

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The deadly danger that the site operators fear is apparently linked to the PDF linked in the X post linked PDF. It contains a court order that the US investigative authority FBI has obtained. It instructs the Canadian provider Tucows to hand over comprehensive data about the customer behind archive.today. It concerns address and connection data as well as payment information. If Tucows does not provide the data, penalties are threatened. Whether the court order is genuine and how the operators of the site obtained it could not be verified so far.

Is the operator based in Russia?​

Why the FBI is currently interested in archive.today, which is also accessible under the domains archive.is and archive.ph, is not evident from the court order. However, there are several obvious starting points for investigations: in addition to the obvious reason of copyright issues, the investigators could also be pursuing suspicions about unclear financing, the origin of the operators, or the technical approach.


In 2023, Finnish blogger Janni Patokallio compiled various clues and research results in a post in a post. According to this, Archive.today uses a botnet with changing IP addresses to circumvent anti-scraping measures. There are also indications that the operator(s) are based in Russia. Another private investigation from 2024 comes to a different conclusion. It names a software developer from New York as the alleged operator. According to this investigation, following the trail to Eastern Europe proved to be a red herring.

I don’t know where else to put this but apparently archive.is is being seized by the FBI. Kash Patel once again doing literally anything else other then catching Pedos.

edit: archiveis twitter account has posted the sopenea.
 
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Archive.is and wayback machine hasn't been working which is fustrating because I was going to use it for article research and archiving articles and pages I found for posting here.
 
So the FBI is threatening a company in Canada?
I do not see that working out, they are slightly outside of their jurisdiction.
 
I highly doubt they're going to get anything useful. Based on what's available publicly in the whois of archive.today (country: CZ), he most likely just reused the same whois he has on archive.is:

Code: 
person:       Denis Petrov
nic-hdl:      DP36-IS
address:      Bilkova 16
address:      Prague, Stare Mesto 11000
address:      CZ
phone:        +420 775168924
e-mail:       domains@dns.li
created:      May 16 2012
source:       ISNIC

Kash loves wasting that cash.
 
Pizdec said:
I don’t know where else to put this but apparently archive.is is being seized by the FBI. Kash Patel once again doing literally anything else other then catching Pedos.
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Guess his handler told him to delete her nudes.

General Emílio Médici said:
My guess is someone is asking Patel to SHUT IT DOWN and saar is willing to do the needful.
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Option 1. They're trying to erase something.
Option 2. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

retartedconspiratard said:
Archive.is and wayback machine hasn't been working which is fustrating because I was going to use it for article research and archiving articles and pages I found for posting here.
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What the fuck are they up to now?
 
The HB1 shit, the mass rapes and murders by third world scum, all the horror and pain.

The globalists don't want you to see any of it and they will go to any lengths of censorship and repression to make sure you don't.
 
Is there a reason why they are doing this?

I've used it loads of times to get around paywall content, for the love of god it would be highly retarded for this to be the cause.

1. That's the website owner deciding to give that content to search engines for SEO, they could lock that down immediately on their own. This isn't a hack of any kind.

2. Fuck the MSM and their globo homo agenda
 
Mr. Brown said:
Is there a reason why they are doing this?
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Truthfully? There's probably something specific that they've identified being hosted on archive.is that they want taken down and have already taken it down on the "clearnet." What that is? Who knows?
 
Preacher ✝ said:
I'm gonna wager this is some kind of copyright bullshit and thus further proof that the DMCA is a crime against humanity.
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makes no sense because other archive sites can also be used to bypass paywalls. my completely unfounded theory is that the admin is involved in cybercrime or whatnot and the feds are trying to get to them through a legitimate service they operate due to a lack of leads. also isn't tucows a reseller for njal.la, which offers anonymous domain registrations? if it ends up being a dead end because the feds think they can obtain usable information from a service that doesn't collect any then i'm gonna laugh my ass off.

getting flashbacks to when dark.fail was compromised because an attacker social engineered tucows support.
 
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