Gawker’s parent company, Bustle Digital Group, has named the journalist Dan Peres as the editor in chief of Gawker.com, the latest move in its bid to revive the dormant website brought down by a high-profile legal battle.

Bustle and its chief executive, Bryan Goldberg, acquired the Gawker.com domain in July after an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit brought by the former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan and bankrolled by the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel left Gawker Media bankrupt in 2016.

Gawker.com, the boundary-pushing news and commentary website, shut down that year, and the website appears to have been preserved in amber since then, with its farewell article still at the top of the page.

Mr. Peres, who was editor in chief of the Condé Nast’s men’s fashion magazine Details for 15 years, will lead the effort to revive the website. It is expected to relaunch later this year.