Some of their archiving accounts:
- webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/145817/on-which-country-are-the-creators-and-servers-of-archive-today-archive-is-base/175600#175600 by Ciro Santilli
Points to:"Alex Conferno" is also brought up: twitter.com/conferno - www.reddit.com/r/COPYRIGHT/comments/1bcqf3y/archivetoday_archiveis_copyright_victims/
- drive.google.com/file/d/1JTPVd09NPaGH-KzGv2jU3XXcFiJAoUjw/view some crazy due investigating, let's see how long until it goes down, posted at:
- www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/12trawt/has_anyone_ever_actually_spoken_to_denis_petrov/
- gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/. Trended on Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009598
- gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20240326-archive-today/
Other mentions of "Denis Petrov":
In 2025, the FBI got interested in the creator of the website due to its news paywall circumvention usage, and the dude started going nuts, coming after anyone who had previously investigated him with OSINT, e.g. the author of gyrovague.com and Ciro Santilli:
Later on in 2026 Wikipedia banned archive.today links because it had DDoS'ed Wikipedia and tampered with snapshots: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/ The dude had gone completely unhinged, destroying everything he built.
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Archive.today, also known as archive.is, is a web archiving service that allows users to capture and store snapshots of web pages. The service can create permanent records of online content, which is useful for preserving information that may change or become inaccessible over time. When a user submits a URL to Archive.today, the service takes a snapshot of that page as it exists at that moment. The resulting archived page can be accessed later, even if the original page has been altered or deleted.