diff --git a/ghost/member-attribution/lib/outbound-link-tagger.js b/ghost/member-attribution/lib/outbound-link-tagger.js
index 25b0e34538..d5b8346ef0 100644
--- a/ghost/member-attribution/lib/outbound-link-tagger.js
+++ b/ghost/member-attribution/lib/outbound-link-tagger.js
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ const LinkReplacer = require('@tryghost/link-replacer');
 const blockedReferrerDomains = [
     // Facebook has some restrictions on the 'ref' attribute (max 15 chars + restricted character set) that breaks links if we add ?ref=longer-string
     'facebook.com',
-    'www.facebook.com'
+    'www.facebook.com',
+    'web.archive.org',
+    'archive.org'
 ];
 
 /**
diff --git a/ghost/member-attribution/test/outbound-link-tagger.test.js b/ghost/member-attribution/test/outbound-link-tagger.test.js
index 51ddda6c5a..b763a888ec 100644
--- a/ghost/member-attribution/test/outbound-link-tagger.test.js
+++ b/ghost/member-attribution/test/outbound-link-tagger.test.js
@@ -82,6 +82,11 @@ describe('OutboundLinkTagger', function () {
             const updatedUrl = await service.addToUrl(url);
 
             should(updatedUrl.toString()).equal('https://facebook.com/');
+
+            const urlTwo = new URL('https://web.archive.org/');
+            const updatedUrlTwo = await service.addToUrl(urlTwo);
+
+            should(updatedUrlTwo.toString()).equal('https://web.archive.org/');
         });
 
         it('does not add ref if utm_source is present', async function () {