Domain history
What is domain history?
Domain history is a track record of all possible changes (Registrar, contact details, SEO ranking, etc.) that were made to the domain name since it was registered for the first time.
Why check the domain history?
Most often that is done to check if there were any issues before purchasing a domain name that is already registered or to monitor the competitor’s domain. Different parameters can be found on different websites.
How to get information on a domain using WHOIS?
WHOIS will show the domain registrar who might be able to forward your email do the domain registrant, domain registration date as well as the expiration date, nameservers, etc. You can check our review on popular WHOIS services here.
Investigating domain changes history
Few services offer that sort of information and it’s usually paid. One of the best among such is reg.com The price depends on the amount of information you want to get. There are free services that allow to perform a Whois check and nameserver change history. A few good and free ones are securitytrails.com and whoisrequest.com Here is a free tool, the web archive. It allows you to trace the website’s design, structure and content change free of charge.
How to get search queries history and other SEO information?
Some services allow checking how did the website search engines ranking change over time, who refers to it, analyze the competitors, etc. Serpstat and ahrefs are considered to be good services to check this information. They are partially free and provide higher quality services than competitors. You can check the domain positioning for the last 6 months free of charge at Serpstat without registering an account.
How to get PR history?
There are a lot of companies providing this kind of information. They all work in a similar way: by adding websites and their PR indexes to their database and following the changes. As a result, the more websites on the database – the better the service. We recommend checking SpyFu as one of the best services in our opinion.
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