Cloudflare has flagged the popular web archiving service archive.today as a 'Command & Control/Botnet' domain, causing it to no longer resolve through Cloudflare's 1.1.1.2 DNS resolver. This classification has sparked significant discussion in the tech community, with users reporting access issues and debating the validity of the classification for a widely-used archival tool.
Background
Cloudflare operates public DNS resolvers like 1.1.1.1 and 1.1.1.2, with the latter configured to block known malware and phishing domains. archive.today is a widely used service for creating permanent snapshots of web pages.
- Source
- Hacker News (RSS)
- Published
- Mar 22, 2026 at 11:43 AM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10