Ciro Santilli
OurBigBook.com- webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/145817/on-which-country-are-the-creators-and-servers-of-archive-today-archive-is-base/175600#175600 by Ciro Santilli
Points to:"Alex Conferno" is also brought up: twitter.com/conferno - www.reddit.com/r/COPYRIGHT/comments/1bcqf3y/archivetoday_archiveis_copyright_victims/
- drive.google.com/file/d/1JTPVd09NPaGH-KzGv2jU3XXcFiJAoUjw/view some crazy due investigating, let's see how long until it goes down, posted at:
- www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/12trawt/has_anyone_ever_actually_spoken_to_denis_petrov/
- gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/. Trended on Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009598
- gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20240326-archive-today/
Other mentions of "Denis Petrov":
In 2025, the FBI got interested in the creator of the website due to its news paywall circumvention usage, and the dude started going nuts, coming after anyone who had previously investigated him with OSINT, e.g. the author of gyrovague.com and Ciro Santilli:
Later on in 2026 Wikipedia banned archive.today links because it had DDoS'ed Wikipedia and tampered with snapshots: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/ The dude had gone completely unhinged, destroying everything he built.