DNS History

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DNS History
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"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."
"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[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]
Status Closing
Archiving status In progress...
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.

On July 10th, 2016, DNS History will be shut down due to "funding issues".

Announcement

On the main page, on the right:

"This site will shut down on the 10th July 2016 due to funding issues."

There has been no further annoucement which we have been able to find at this time, the operators have not replied, and the forums are inaccessible.

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

Lack of cooperation

After ArchiveTeam started the project, 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."

Server errors also occur since then.