Mark Graham got back to me and confirmed a 'content owner' had requested that Ezboard forums be blocked on the Wayback Machine. I assume from the timing involved that this was Yuku, now acquired by Tapatalk.
I've sent some emails and posted this thread on the Taptalk support forums. There had already been at least one user there requesting access to Ezboard forums again, and one of the support admins (ChrisW) had asked around but I'm chasing them for a followup and an official reply.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/tapa...ne-t45474.html
Also messaged the Tapatalk CEO on Linkedin
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Though I doubt he will answer.
I'm still chasing this, I don't give up easy.
I've got a list of about 1,000 ezboard URLs scraped with grep from my EQ archive that I'm ready to start dumping the minute these come online again.