knowing whether an available domain has ever been registered

[atoklas]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to find out whether an available name has been registered at all at some point in the past? (Even if only for a few days.) And, if so, is it possible to find out how long it was registered for?


Thanks,
Andy

 

[lesurf]

you could go to archive.org and type the domain name in. that would at least show you if there was ever a site hosted at the domain. Not 100% though as some sites never got crawled by archive.org

 

[den]

Domain Tools: Whois Lookup and Domain Suggestions (formally whois.sc) have this feature if its a .com/.org/.net

I have seen a few domains I've done a whois on there and found to be available that it has been registered in the past and they have cached whois information going back years.

www.whois.sc/yourdomain.com

 

[wwwdomain.name]

Yep - second Den on domaintools...

One of the best resources online...

 

[atoklas]

Great. Thanks for that. I tried domaintools and it does what I needed it to.

 

[stender]

If someone has a .com and .co.uk and the .co.uk forwards to the .com does the .co.uk appear on wayback or just the .com????