"archive.today is currently categorized as: * CIPA Filter * Reference * Command and Control & Botnet * DNS Tunneling"

Ditto for their other domains like archive.is and archive.ph

Example DoH request:

$ curl -s "https://1.1.1.2/dns-query?name=archive.is&type=A" -H "accept: application/dns-json"

{"Status":0,"TC":false,"RD":true,"RA":true,"AD":false,"CD":false,"Question":[{"name":"archive.is","type":1}],"Answer":[{"name":"archive.is","type":1,"TTL":60,"data":"0.0.0.0"}],"Comment":["EDE(16): Censored"]}

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Relevant HN discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006 "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 "Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?" - Post about the script used to execute the denial-of-service attack

Wikipedia page on deprecating and replacing archive.today links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...

Thanks for that, I didn't know about that API - which it turns out has open CORS headers so you can call it from JavaScript.

I now have my dream DNS lookup web tool! https://tools.simonwillison.net/dns#d=news.ycombinator.com&t...