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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:47:33AM -0500, K. Jo Garner wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Steven Champeon wrote:
> 
> ->on Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:30:28PM -0500, K. Jo Garner wrote:
> ->> Greetings, 
> ->> 
> ->> Is there any service which will give a history on domain names? 
> ->
> ->Nope. If it's not in archive.org, you're out of luck. 
> 
> No, I don't want to see former versions of a website, just the domain 
> registry history. How come you can trace ownership of a car but not a 
> domain name?

Because the whole idea of "expiry" is recent, foisted upon us by an
uncaring monopolist and a negligent government, and because nobody ever
thought to make it a feature of whois searches?

When I was doing my scans for the namespace project, it really hindered
my progress, as a lot of registrars don't even bother to keep the
"first registered" data up to date after the domain is transferred.

 http://hesketh.com/schampeo/projects/namespace/

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