Easy Steps for Removing Your Site from Wayback Machine Archive.org

Today we learned about Wayback Machine.

The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public

The point is that how to remove our site from archive.org, there are 3 simple steps for removing your site from archive.org, Detail is as under:

1. Place a piece of code in your robots.txt file.
2. Creating a DMCA takedown notice.
3. Email to Achive.org asking for permanent removal of site.

1. Place a piece of code in your robots.txt file.

The code is given below

User-agent: ia_archiver

Disallow: /

If your domain have already this file then you need to add this code into it otherwise just create new one and save it as robots.txt and pate the code then upload to domain directory files.

2. Creating a DMCA takedown notice.

Now You will need to create a DMCA notice that you can paste into the email you will be sending to Archive.org.

To create a formal DMCA notice for removing of your website follow the template which link is given below:

Template Link Click Me

Then pate in Email as mention in step three

 3. Email to Achive.org asking for permanent removal of site.

  

After this now you need to send an email to info@archive.org and ask them to remove your site as your required Email format is given below:

Email subject:

Formal Request To Remove Website From Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Then start Email as below:

 “Hi, my name is [Your Name] owner of [The Domain You Are Asking Them To Exclude]. I’m officially requesting immediate removal of the [Your Domain] site/domain from web.archive.org and the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

We have placed the User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: / code in our robots.txt file which is not being followed. The Copyright Notice on this site can be found here – [Link To Your Copyright Notice]”

Here pate your DCMA takedown Notice as you copied from template:

“Here is my formal DMCA Takedown Notice:”

“PASTE IN YOUR TAKEDOWN NOTICE YOU GENERATED FROM TEMPLATE”

Regards,

”Your Name”

When email completed then send it to info@archive.org

Once all steps finished then you need to wait up to 48-72 hours and then check site form archive.org if not removed then send Email to archive.org for removing for your site.

Thank you for your Support.