Notes on bookmarks from 1997
> First, donate to the Internet Archive: <a href="http://archive.org/donate/" rel="nofollow">http://archive.org/donate/</a><p>This is a good step, but there's one massive problem with the Internet Archive: If the domain registration lapses (or is sold), the new owner can direct the Internet Archive to <i>remove</i> archived copies of the site previously hosted on that domain[0].<p>In other words, <i>even if the archives are there today</i>, they may not be there when you want them a year (or more) from now). I've been bitten by this in the past.<p>This means that the Internet Archive wouldn't have been able to prevent or mitigate some of the cases of link rot described here, as the content could have been scrubbed from the archive.<p><i>EDIT</i> In case it wasn't clear, I still support the Internet Archive - I just want to make sure people know this issue exists and that it's not a "silver bullet" for this problem.<p>[0] I'm fairly certain this is still the case; if they have changed their policy recently I would be pleasantly surprised.