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 We even had a 404 handler people could put on their website, but that may be out of date-- if others want to put it on their website (please vice!)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.
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 We even had a 404 handler people could put on their website, but that may be out of date-- if others want to put it on their website (please vice!)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.
[email protected] if you would like to do something like this.
-brewster Digital Librarian, Internet Archive