The record
What this domain was, 2001–2011
This address is not new. It carried a campaign site for a decade, and a fair number of the links pointing here were placed by people who cared about that campaign. They deserve an honest account of what happened to it rather than a redirect into a sales page.
What the record shows
The first capture in the Internet Archive is dated 25 July 2001. The site was a campaign and a discussion forum, formed during the fight over the anti-circumvention provisions in Section 1201, the part of the law making it unlawful to break a technical lock, whether or not anything is copied. That was the live controversy of 2001, and it produced a wave of organising among programmers, librarians and security researchers.
Archival activity peaks in 2004 and the site remains active until around 2011, with the last substantial captures that year. The bulk of the archived URLs are forum pages, which fits what the site mainly was: a place where people argued the thing out. The 2011 capture is a reasonable picture of its later shape.
Who was pointing at it
The link record is the clearest evidence of what the site meant at the time. Still live today are references from the University of Helsinki, Harvard, Indiana University, Slashdot, SourceForge, LWN, the Perl and Squeak communities, and European digital-rights groups including FITUG. Several of those links carry the same anchor text, a line from the campaign itself: "Join us to Take back the Net!"
That is an unusual set of referrers for a small site, and it says something specific: this was cited in teaching material and in technical press, not traded or bought.
Why the original isn't republished here
The text on that site was written by its contributors, and buying a domain does not transfer the copyright in what other people wrote on it. Re-hosting their words under a new operator would be a strange thing to do on a site about copyright.
So the material stays where it is properly preserved, at the Internet Archive, and it can be read in full there: every capture of anti-dmca.org. If you contributed to the original site and would like something restored here, or removed from this account of it, that is a request worth making.
What the domain does now
Section 1201 is still law and the exemption cycle still grinds round every three years. What changed is that the everyday harm moved: for most people the DMCA is no longer an argument about locks, it is a notice that took their video down on a Tuesday.
So the name stays and the work is narrower. Explain the procedure accurately, hand people the document the statute actually requires, and be straight about what the law will and will not do for them. There is no advertising on this site and nothing here is a placement.