Spain’s Ministry of Culture ordered the blocking of Archive.today and several of its mirror domains, including Archive.is, Archive.ph, and Archive.li, following an administrative complaint from an unnamed rights holder. The decision, issued by the Second Section of the Intellectual Property Commission, redirects Spanish users to a government notice stating they are attempting to access an “illegal” website. The notice accuses visitors of facilitating unauthorized access to copyrighted material and warns that such actions pose risks to personal security and data. Users are instead prompted to access content from legal sources, which the government claims supports artistic creation and cultural development. The block took effect in mid-August, initially through select internet providers, and was implemented under a 2021 protocol requiring mirror sites to be taken down within 24 hours of notice from a technical committee. Unlike court rulings, the action stems from an administrative process and does not appear on the Ministry’s publicly maintained list of blocked domains, which was last updated on September 11. Archive.today functions as a web archiving service, preserving snapshots of pages that have been removed, altered, or are behind paywalls, a capability that benefits researchers and journalists documenting online content.