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Denis PETROV from New York is the owner of
archive.today.
PETROV was fully identified as:
NAME: Denis A. PETROV
DOB: 07/##/1971 (52)
SSN: 124-86-####
ADDRESS: 301 E. 75th St, Apt 4E, New York, NY 10021
PHONE: 917-923-7935
E-mail: theti9er@gmail.com
Denis PETROV works as a Senior Software
Engineer at Elephant Ventures LLC
(https://www.elephantventures.com ) and
noted that it is a Delaware company with
offices in several states.
But in front of this respectable facade Denis PETROV leads a double life. A dark life, made of
distribution of pedophile photos, photos of torture, photos of real rape, promotion and referencing
of drug sales sites, multiple perjury in DMCA, violation of individual image and legal rights of
authorship, and extortion.
Denis PETROV is the owner of the controversial site https://archive.today.
Also known by multiple mirror domain names:
https://archive.today
https://archive.ph
https://archive.is
https://archive.li
https://archive.vn
https://archive.fo
https://archive.md
You will find the complete history of this site here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
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But behind this storefront is hidden hundreds of child pornography photos, drug sales links and
links to real torture and rape content. Denis PETROV actually manages a showcase of all the most
horrible things the Dark Web can offer.
Furthermore, Denis PETROV never respects copyright withdrawal requests and steals the personal
data of thousands of people. Hundreds of victims are desperately trying to have content stolen from
them deleted, some victims are overwhelmed by Revenge Porn and harassment but Denis PETROV
doesn't care. And he trades in it.
After a year and a half of investigation, here is all the evidence that proves that Denis PETROV is the
owner of archive.today.
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1. The trail of the who.is:
First, we looked at the archive.is website, where references to mail.ru in the source code suggest a
Russian connection to the site's owner. Our Russian-speaking partner says that mistakes in English
are typically Slavic. And other post shows that he speaks Russian fluently.
The who.is of domains such as “archive.is” and “archive.vn”, which requires putting a real unmasked
who.is leads to a “Denis Petrov”, between 2013 and 2018.
Who.is 2013 archive.is: https://www.isnic.is/en/whois/search?query=archive.is
Who.is 2018 archive.vn: https://whois.inet.vn/whois?domain=archive.vn
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So we have a name and an address:
Denis PETROV
Address: Bílkova 16, Prague, 11000, CZ
Tel. +420 775 168 924
After having commissioned a private detective to check the address in Czechia, he confirmed to us
that there was no Denis PETROV on the mailboxes. This appears to be a fake address or an empty
shell.
Registering with a false name on who.is would mean taking the risk of having domain names cut off,
which is not compatible with the desire to set up a long-term project, so there is a strong chance
that Denis PETROV is the real name of the owner.
We do a search with the phone number on https://epieos.com/ and we find a match with a Denis
PETROV Google account, an account which has disappeared today...
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2. Verification of Denis PETROV’s name and email address search
We found quite quickly in web archives and social networks, several screen copies of emails signed
“Denis” and where the interlocutor begins their email with “Hi Denis”:
