HACKER Q&A
📣 smeej

When did 302 redirects start corrupting Wayback Machine archives?


I owned a domain from 2017-2021. After I decided not to move forward with the project, I made sure to make an archive through the Wayback Machine for posterity, then let the domain expire.

Now, when I go try to look at any of the archives, either that I made or that had happened previously, all I get is a 302 redirect to Huge Domains, which offers to sell it back to me.

What use is an archive if it can be changed later? And when did this start happening?

  👤 DamonHD Accepted Answer ✓
AFAIK the Wayback Machine respects redirects and similar in the live site/domain, for reasons. I doubt that your original pages are lost, but getting to them may be hard.