DNS History
DNS History | |
"Here at DNS History we have been crawling DNS records since 2009, our database currently contains over 500 million domains and over 2 billion DNS records." | |
URL | dnshistory.org[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] |
Status | Closing |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
Project source | dnshistory-grab |
Project tracker | dnshistory |
IRC channel | #greatlookup (on hackint) |
DNS History is a DNS record archive provided by 8086 Consulting.
It was scheduled to close on July 10th, 2016, due to "funding issues".
Announcement
According to a Twitter entry dated 2016-06-26:
- "dnshistory.org/ will be closing down in a couple of weeks - it has been a fun project over the years thanks folks."
Also, on the main page, on the right:
- "This site will shut down on the 10th July 2016 due to funding issues."
Discovery results
A scrape of all TLDs which are crawled by DNS History currently is available here.
Out of the 1365 TLDs,
- 1114 do have pages
- 1110 are here
- .info: 251346 pages
- .org: 288405 pages
- .net: unknown (expected to be millions of pages)
- 251 don't have a single domain: they
Failed archiving attempt
After ArchiveTeam started the project (2016-07-04), dnshistory.org staff shortly activated CloudFlare in order to block our access to the site.
user:bzc6p contacted them asking for cooperation, but they replied that "there is no way you can archive the >billion pages on the site and trying to do so is causing issues for other users on the site."
Since then CloudFlare seems to have been deactivated. As of 2016-08-17, the site is still up, with various queries, including search, still functioning, with the closure notice still up.