After being banned from Wikipedia a while ago, archive[.]today‘s owner seemingly continued to completely lose it.
Today, a new one: visiting any related domains is redirecting me to the known Russian disinfo website “RT News”.
Accessing any related domain, in this instance archive[.]ph, will return the following page:
<noscript>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://stolidityseashellshotter.com/ezrsb5dd1268e6f6ebaad42916d5d87b8133c0816d3e7"/>
</noscript>
<script>
setTimeout(function(){window.top.location.replace("https://stolidityseashellshotter.com/ezrsb5dd1268e6f6ebaad42916d5d87b8133c0816d3e7")},0)
</script>Redirecting you to the stolidityseashellshotter[.]com domain, which in turn does a 302 redirect to rurtnews[.]com:
HTTP/3 302
server: cloudflare
date: Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:24:19 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
nel: {"report_to":"cf-nel","success_fraction":0.0,"max_age":604800}
priority: u=0,i
accept-ch: Sec-CH-UA, Sec-CH-UA-Platform, Sec-CH-UA-Mobile, Sec-CH-UA-Arch, Sec-CH-UA-Bitness, Sec-CH-UA-Full-Version-List, Sec-CH-UA-Model, Sec-CH-UA-Platform-Version, Sec-CH-UA-WoW64
location: https://rurtnews.com/
cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC
report-to: {"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800,"endpoints":[{"url":"https://a.nel.cloudflare.com/report/v4?s=7S%2Fk%2BCJ3cPRkrzPCTAOnByXZEb6z14U4VNkdo%2FjV%2Bms4GWoSCLbCQ3XewU4M6%2FvP08HN3StYckmJjWK5u2SUO3%2FKYPRUZpQLJ8U9h2SpESzIPo%2BtKrAFpNAz9D3aCI7vNw4hMyW9JwHe8vi%2B91tGOsMcGtRPfGEVW9fY"}]}
cf-ray: a07fa2147fe5a0cd-ARN
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400
server-timing: cfExtPriAfter posting about this on the Fediverse, it seems the same behaviour appears in France as well.
My own tests were done from Finland with my resolver set to DNS.sb. Before this, Archive Today-related websites didn’t even resolve using the same configuration.
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