: An official mirror often used to bypass specific network firewalls or DNS blocks. : A shortened official redirect. archive.transformativeworks.org : Direct access through the parent organization’s domain. insecure.archiveofourown.org
If you are in the middle of a story and the site goes down, you have several options to access content: 1. Use the Wayback Machine (Internet Archive)
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These domains are managed by the and lead to the same underlying database as the main site.
: A real, official domain introduced to bypass network controls.