- May 20, 2019
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Hello I tried to restore a domain name from WMD.
I waited for two weeks to get my files. It turns out that every link on that page(shopping site) redirects to a goodbye message because the site was closing down as I took it from the last updated crawl page which I usually do when doing these things.
So while getting the most updated last crawled page is good you might want to double check if it redirects to such messages. I did check it but because waybackmachine stores the crawled page in 2014 instead of 2013 I had no idea that the goodbye page was already there. So to be safe while you can get the last updated crawl page, it would be wiser to get a few months earlier during that year to avoid such mishaps.
Anyway hope this helps someone, now I have to wait another two weeks
I waited for two weeks to get my files. It turns out that every link on that page(shopping site) redirects to a goodbye message because the site was closing down as I took it from the last updated crawl page which I usually do when doing these things.
So while getting the most updated last crawled page is good you might want to double check if it redirects to such messages. I did check it but because waybackmachine stores the crawled page in 2014 instead of 2013 I had no idea that the goodbye page was already there. So to be safe while you can get the last updated crawl page, it would be wiser to get a few months earlier during that year to avoid such mishaps.
Anyway hope this helps someone, now I have to wait another two weeks