"The FBI is attempting to track down the identity of the owner of Archive.today and its numerous mirrors, like Archive.is and Archive.ph. As reported by , the FBI subpoena, which was posted on the official Archive.today X account, was sent to web domain registrar Tucows on October 30th demanding the "customer or subscriber name, address of service, and billing address" associated with Archive.today."
"It goes on to say that this info "relates to a federal criminal investigation being conducted by the FBI," but it doesn't reference a specific crime. Archive.today has been around since 2012, but the identity of the site's owner remains unconfirmed. Someone who goes by the common Russian name, or possibly pseudonym, "Denis Petrov" from Prague, Czech Republic registered the original domain of the site, but little else is known about who that person is."
The FBI issued a subpoena to domain registrar Tucows on October 30th seeking the customer or subscriber name, address of service, and billing address for Archive.today and its mirrors. The subpoena additionally requests telephone records, payment information, internet session data, network addresses, and information about services used by the site's owner, such as email or cloud computing. The subpoena states the records "relates to a federal criminal investigation being conducted by the FBI," but it does not specify a crime. Archive.today has operated since 2012; the owner remains unconfirmed despite a domain registration under "Denis Petrov" in Prague. The site is commonly used to bypass paywalls, similar to 12ft.io.
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