History of specific domain name

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GNUbahn
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Iscritto: 02/18/2016

I am interested in buying a domain name which someone else owns but does not use.
There can be legitimate reasons for this. I have tried to contact the current owner, but she has not responded. Now I am curious to know for how long that domain name has not been used or if it has been used at all.

Do you know if there is a way to see the history of a given domain name?

jxself
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Iscritto: 09/13/2010

You can try the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine but there's no promise that is covers everything or that it has anything. It's not as if there's a version control system to go check on a specific domain name. The web doesn't work that way.

GNUbahn
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Iscritto: 02/18/2016

Thanks.

There was indeed a record of the domain I am looking at.

But does your comment mean that even there is a record, I cannot trust that it is complete (for the given domain name)?

jxself
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Iscritto: 09/13/2010

That is correct.

GNUbahn
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Iscritto: 02/18/2016

Thanks

eric23
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Iscritto: 06/30/2017

Maybe you are looking for the whois command?

whois trisquel.info

That brings up some information about the trisquel domain.

jxself
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Iscritto: 09/13/2010

But that information shows current ownership, not historical, and provides no indication of "usage" as the OP wanted.