Moving to a new server

The dnshistory.org 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.

1 Billion DNS records

Today we exceeded 1 billion DNS records available on the site.

We currently have 805 million current records for our 187 million indexed domains and 199 million historical records.

Stats update

The main dnshistory stats have been updated.

They show that within the next month or so we should be storing more than a billion DNS records.

SPF Support

We have added in basic support for parsing SPF in TXT records.

You can see an example of this on the dnshistory.org entry.

If anyone notices any problems please contact us.

Chris.

First full run

We 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.

DNS zone statistics are also updating and will be available online once they are completed.

Chris.

New features and growth

New features
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:

Listing users of Google Apps Mail (GMail):
http://dnshistory.org/linksto/mx/gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.

Domains pointing at Googles nameservers:
http://dnshistory.org/linksto/ns/ns1.google.com.

Database Growth

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

ChrisB.

Database reset

The 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.