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In the ancient times (around 2000-2003) I had a class involving creating websites. College by the way.
I bought a silly domain, something like greatcookiesareawesome.com <--- NOT THE ACTUAL DOMAIN. I used it for my class projects.
I graduated. Had a copy of my work in a usb flash drive thing. I did not renew the domain after graduating college not the hosting.
The other day I found the usb flash drive thing. I have like over 100 of them in a big box. It fell off that box.
I went to look for the domain and guess what? no one registered it. So i registered it. It forwards to my current domain.
The whois obviously says November 2021 as creation date.
However the domain was alive at around 2000-2003 (I can't remember the exact year(s)). Is there a way to search for the history of the domain. Not the wayback machine of the contents, but the whois records (Domain History). Even though it hasn't been active from roughly 2003-2021. Roughly for the past 18 years.