= Creator of Archive.today
= Denis Petrov of Archive.Is
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* https://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:
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/denispetrov/
"Alex Conferno" is also brought up: https://twitter.com/conferno
* https://www.reddit.com/r/COPYRIGHT/comments/1bcqf3y/archivetoday_archiveis_copyright_victims/
* https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JTPVd09NPaGH-KzGv2jU3XXcFiJAoUjw/view some crazy due investigating, let's see how long until it goes down, posted at:
* https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/12trawt/has_anyone_ever_actually_spoken_to_denis_petrov/
* https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/[]. Trended on <Hacker News>: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009598
* https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20240326-archive-today/
Other mentions of "Denis Petrov":
* https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/88257/deny-access-to-archive-is
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>:
* https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cirosantilli2#c-Cirosantilli2-20260527051200-Chrisahn-20260526203100
Later on in 2026 <Wikipedia> banned archive.today links because it had <DDoS>'ed <Wikipedia> and tampered with snapshots: https://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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