The Internet Archive taking over a dead website domains and URL's makes sense to keep them useful to web users (the ongoing fee of the domain name is a pain, but not that expensive)

we have taken over other people's systems with mechanism (like purl.org ) but a static website would be even easier--

redirects galore (20 million broken links fixed in wikipedia) or give us the domain name. We even had a 404 handler people could put on their website, but that may be out of date-- if others want to put it on their website (please vice!) we would bring it up to date.

We also have a 404 service in the Brave browswer (go Brave!). Please communicate to Chrome folks, Mozilla, others how awesome it would be for them to build this into their browser.

info@archive.org if you would like to do something like this.

-brewster Digital Librarian, Internet Archive

this was reported in april 2022, so it was a while ago in TechCrunch, and it was $175M revenue, not profit in that report.

So this may not be as imminent as reported in the ITwire piece.

We are upgrading again-- the pandemic has made us kind-of popular.

Because of budget we tend to use things up 100% before putting more in.

Full copy of the article: https://archive.org/details/howtheinternetarchiveiswagingwar...