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domain history / removal of a complete website from archive.org
hyperblast
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in General
i'm looking for a tool that can analyze the history of a domain. i found it at domaintools (https://domainreport.domaintools.com/) but i'm not sure if it's any good and access to it is very expensive. is there anyone here who has access to domaintools? are there alternative services that can analyze the history of a domain (or more) (also for a fee)?
i would also be interested to know if anyone here has ever had experience of completely removing a website (the one you have access to, of course) from archive.org? how time-consuming is it? what do you have to bear in mind? do you have any chance at all?
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Why? What are you hiding?
with all due respect, but it's none of your *ing business.
Send them a legal notice
I once wanted to remove a page from web.archive.org because I accidently published too much private information in my legal notice (Impressum), I simply wrote a mail and they answered and removed it within a few days. But I don't know whether they would remove a whole website.
https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-something-from-archive-org/
I perfectly understand this is questionable and debatable, but IMO that's quite sad to hear in general.
There should be some (at least somehow trusted) resource, which can be used later (sometimes much later) to confirm that some info was published online.
Otherwise all we can have is screenshots, about which it's always possible to shout loudly "Photoshopped!".
I believe Archive.org has an official method to remove any website you own from the Wayback Machine by putting the correct syntax on the sites robots.txt
I don't have first hand experience, but you can mail them for a website removal. Do include your "proof of ownership", that the domain you want to remove belonged to you while the site was indexed by them.