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# Memento aggregator (`timetravel.mementoweb.org`) — dead host

The LANL/Los Alamos Memento aggregator, long cited as the canonical cross-archive
TimeMap aggregator (queries Internet Archive, archive.today, UK Web Archive, Arquivo.pt,
and others in one call via `http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/timemap/link/<url>` or
`/api/json/<datetime>/<url>`), **does not resolve** as of this probe:

```
$ curl http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/timemap/link/https://example.com
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: timetravel.mementoweb.org
```

Confirmed not a local-resolver artifact via Cloudflare's DNS-over-HTTPS GET endpoint
(`https://1.1.1.1/dns-query?name=timetravel.mementoweb.org&type=A`), which returns
`"Status":3` (NXDOMAIN) with an SOA-only `Authority` section — the registrar answers
authoritatively that this name has no A record, not a resolver timeout (`Status:2`
would mean SERVFAIL).

The **parent domain is alive** but repurposed: `mementoweb.org` (root) resolves to
GitHub Pages IPs (`185.199.108–111.153`) and serves a static `Content-Type:
text/html` page titled "Memento - Time Travel for the Web", `Last-Modified: Fri, 27
Feb 2026`, `Server: GitHub.com` — an informational/archival landing page with no
working query form or API link in its `<head>`-adjacent markup (checked for
`http(s)://` references: only self-referential `/static/...` asset paths, no
aggregator endpoint). An agent that has `timetravel.mementoweb.org` cached from
older docs will get an outright connection failure, not an HTTP error it can branch
on; checking `mementoweb.org` itself resolves but offers no working substitute path.

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:15:34–08:15:46Z — curl 8 direct DNS resolution failure
(both http and https, two separate attempts) for the subdomain; Cloudflare DoH GET
confirming NXDOMAIN for the subdomain and a real A-record answer for the bare domain;
curl GET of `https://mementoweb.org/` (200, GitHub.com server headers) with its body
grepped for outbound `http(s)://` links.

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