Wayback Machine Downloaders

Expired Domain Restoration Service

Forgot to renew your domain and lost everything on it? We pull your website back from the Wayback Machine archive and rebuild it, as HTML or WordPress, so you’re live again in days, not months.

If your domain expired and someone else registered it, or your registrar deleted your content, your website isn’t necessarily gone for good. As long as the Wayback Machine crawled it before it disappeared, we can extract every archived page, image, and file, and rebuild your site exactly as it was, on your new or re-registered domain.

Why Domains Expire and Websites Disappear

In every case, the underlying question is the same: is there an archived snapshot to rebuild from? If yes, restoration is almost always possible.

How Expired Domain Restoration Works

  1. Send us your old domain name. We look it up in the Wayback Machine to confirm snapshot availability and quality.
  2. We choose the best archived snapshot(s). More recent, more complete snapshots restore more cleanly.
  3. We extract everything. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, PDFs: every asset the archive captured.
  4. We rebuild your site. Choose HTML restoration (static files, ready to upload) or WordPress restoration (fully editable, responsive, SEO structure preserved).
  5. You get a ZIP file plus deployment help. Upload to your (re-registered or new) domain and you are back online.

What We Can and Can't Recover

RecoverableNot always recoverable
Page text, layout, and structurePassword-protected or login-gated content
Images, PDFs, and static files the archive crawledDatabase records (form submissions, user accounts, e-commerce orders)
URL structure (so old backlinks keep working)Content the Wayback Machine never crawled or was blocked by robots.txt
Blog posts, articles, product pagesLive search/filter functionality (can be rebuilt manually)

Pricing

HTML Restoration

$10

per site

WordPress Restoration

$35

per site

Custom Restoration

Quote

Large multi-hundred-page sites: contact us

Why Restore Instead of Rebuilding from Scratch

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, as long as the site was crawled by the Wayback Machine before it went offline. We check snapshot availability for free before you order.

You can still restore the archived content and publish it on a new domain, or wait or negotiate to reclaim the original one. Either way, the archived content is not lost.

Most single-site HTML restorations are delivered within 24 to 48 hours. WordPress restorations and larger sites typically take 2 to 5 days depending on page count.

Extended downtime can hurt rankings, but restoring the same URL structure and content gives you the best chance of recovering them once the site is back live and re-indexed.

No. We rebuild entirely from public Wayback Machine archives, so we don’t need access to your old host or registrar account.

A ZIP archive containing your restored HTML, CSS, JS and images (HTML plan), or a full WordPress backup file ready to import (WordPress plan).

Get Your Expired Domain Website Back

Send us your old domain and we will confirm what can be restored.