New Domain History Site www.hosterstats.com

I’ve launched a new domain history website www.hosterstats.com It covers the DNS history of over 210 million domains covering com / net / org / biz / info / mobi /asia / ie / eu /co.uk domains. The historical DNS database covers domains back to 2000. There is also the statistical history for each Top Level Domain by year back to 2004.

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Written by John McCormac on October 2nd, 2008 with 6 comments.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Richard Hearne
#1. October 2nd, 2008, at 2:31 PM.

Excellent :)

When do we get the API? :D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Richard Hearne
#2. October 2nd, 2008, at 2:39 PM.

One suggestion - change the link behaviour to target self. All the new windows are quite annoying.

Other than that looks very interesting. Lots and lots of data behind that I’m sure :)

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Philip Reynolds
#3. October 2nd, 2008, at 3:22 PM.

This looks like you’re expecting every site to have a “previous hoster” and it breaks when it doesn’t.

I don’t think dcu.ie was ever “previously hosted” by tcd.ie … but it’s nameservers have and continue to be served by the “previous hosters” on that list. Dodgy for loop maybe? :)

http://www.hosterstats.com/historicaldns.php?domain=dcu.ie

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com John McCormac
#4. October 2nd, 2008, at 3:31 PM.

It isn’t broken Philip,
Basically the Epoch is the snapshot of the hosters when tracking began. DCU still uses TCD’s nameservers if you look at the current DNS. :) I think I might need to explain it better on the site. Basically a domain is considered as being “hosted” by a hoster when it appears on that hoster’s nameservers. There isn’t any recorded movements since the Epoch snapshot.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com John McCormac
#5. October 2nd, 2008, at 3:38 PM.

Thanks Richard,
I had the target=new for all pages but I’ve removed that for the main navigation links (apart from the external whois lookups). The only ones that should open in new windows/tabs should be the cross TLD comparisons.

As for the API, I’ve had enough trouble figuring out how to make it work in PHP. :)

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Michele
#6. October 4th, 2008, at 2:21 PM.

John

It’s a really nice idea. The UI needs some tweaking to make it more “human friendly”, but what you’ve got already is a damn good start

Michele

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