tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47331446050218315132011-08-08T12:55:18.972-07:00Announcements regarding DNSHistory.org - enabling you to check out old DNS records for many websites.8086noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4733144605021831513.post-29152512173096528112011-01-30T10:02:00.001-08:002011-01-30T10:03:32.131-08:00The <a href="http://dnshistory.org/">dnshistory.org</a> site is currently down for maintenance as we are moving it to a more powerful server - it should be back up as soon as possible.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4733144605021831513-2915251217309652811?l=dnshistory.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>8086noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4733144605021831513.post-58757470298919465842010-08-01T04:02:00.000-07:002010-08-01T04:09:12.943-07:00Today we exceeded 1 billion DNS records available on the site.<br /><br />We currently have 805 million current records for our 187 million indexed domains and 199 million historical records.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4733144605021831513-5875747029891946584?l=dnshistory.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>8086noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4733144605021831513.post-22416952078593921912010-07-12T16:36:00.000-07:002010-07-12T16:40:39.933-07:00The main dnshistory <a href="http://dnshistory.org/stats/">stats</a> have been updated. <br /><br />They show that within the next month or so we should be storing more than a billion DNS records.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4733144605021831513-2241695207859392191?l=dnshistory.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>8086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4733144605021831513.post-12862996259320879602010-02-20T18:58:00.000-08:002010-02-20T19:04:43.657-08:00We have added in basic support for parsing SPF in TXT records. <br /><br />You can see an example of this on the <a href="http://dnshistory.org/browsedomains/dnshistory.org.">dnshistory.org</a> entry.<br /><br />If anyone notices any problems please <a href="http://www.8086.net/contact">contact</a> us.<br /><br />Chris.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4733144605021831513-1286299625932087960?l=dnshistory.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>8086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4733144605021831513.post-60252613163546702392009-03-13T18:50:00.001-07:002009-03-13T18:54:18.744-07:00We have just completed our first run which has given us just over 180 million fully qualified domain names. We have already made a start on the first refresh which we hope will be a lot faster than the initial run. <br /><br />DNS zone statistics are also updating and will be available online once they are completed.<br /><br />Chris.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4733144605021831513-6025261316354670239?l=dnshistory.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>8086noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4733144605021831513.post-55699396071318950802008-08-19T11:10:00.000-07:002008-08-19T11:18:51.928-07:00<span style="font-weight:bold;">New features</span><br />We have a great new feature released today enabling you to check what links to a domain with a given record, here are a couple of examples to get you going:<br /><br />Listing users of Google Apps Mail (GMail):<br /><a href="http://dnshistory.org/linksto/mx/gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.">http://dnshistory.org/linksto/mx/gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.</a><br /><br />Domains pointing at Googles nameservers:<br /><a href="http://dnshistory.org/linksto/ns/ns1.google.com.">http://dnshistory.org/linksto/ns/ns1.google.com.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Database Growth</span><br /><br />On Monday we exceeded the 50 million domains mark - and the good news is we have over 50 million more domains waiting to be processed so once the initial run is complete we should have well over 100 million domains available for you to check up on<br /><br />ChrisB.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4733144605021831513-5569939607131895080?l=dnshistory.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>8086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4733144605021831513.post-83023663771774848532008-07-25T06:32:00.000-07:002008-07-25T06:33:32.799-07:00The database was reset earlier after we found a bug relating to the database locking. This has now been resolved and we are continuing to crawl the DNS and add new domains.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4733144605021831513-8302366377177484853?l=dnshistory.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>8086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4733144605021831513.post-32124474650476198392008-07-24T05:31:00.000-07:002008-07-24T05:33:46.792-07:00We opened up the website yesterday to the public and exposed a couple of inward links to get a little traffic to the site. It seems to have gone OK although we only had 12million domains indexed so most of the sites searched for hadn't been indexed.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4733144605021831513-3212447465047619839?l=dnshistory.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>8086noreply@blogger.com0