Articles and guides filed under Website Restoration.
Public web archives keep the words and look of many old websites and almost none of the machinery behind them. An asset-by-asset guide, with original DropOps data on the archived homepages of 7,613 recently dropped, mostly well-linked .uk domains.
A practical UK guide to rebuilding a lost website from public web archives: finding and choosing captures, what will be missing and why, who owns the words and pictures, and how to keep the old addresses working.
An old or acquired domain gives you four honest options: restore the original, restore and modernise, repurpose, or start fresh. This article covers the rights, evidence and URL decisions each one needs, with a decision matrix and the lines none of them may cross.
Building a new site on an expired domain is fine if it serves people first. Here is what Google's expired domain abuse policy says, the UK brand risks it does not cover, how to treat old URLs and backlinks honestly, and a checklist to run before launch.
For developers and technical SEOs: how captures are made, how to query the Wayback CDX API, why an empty Availability API answer proves nothing, and a restoration pipeline from discovery to validation.
AI can turn an old website into a modern draft quickly. It cannot tell which of the old site's facts are still true. What it does well, where it goes wrong, what Google's guidance says, and how to review an AI-rebuilt draft before anything goes live.
