Yesterday I was trying to finish the about section/page for this website and since I dont have much to write about myself :-), I thought I will write a little bit about this website (domain name) amitkothari.com . This site is up, on and off, for almost 7 years but I dont remember the exact date when I registered this website for the first time…

As I mentioned in my previous post, I registered this domain for free and then didn’t renew it once the registrar started charging for it. But I was lucky enough to get the same domain name again after 2-3 years.

Anyways, I was looking for the exact date on which I registered this domain for the first time and I couldn’t find any records (no old emails). So I thought why not google it and as usual I found the answer on google. I found this website Internet Archive - archive.org. Internet Archive is like a digital time capsule, an online archive of various digital content. It uses web crawls to take a global snapshot of the web.

Luckily I was able to find some old records of my domain. The first available records for amitkothari.com was of 20th Feb, 2001. So now I’m sure that I registered this domain on or before this date.

On Internet Archive we can even see how a website use to look like a few years ago. Like for my domain, some of the data was missing for year 2001 but I can see how my website use to look like in 2006 and 2007. From the records, I can also see that this domain was inactive for almost 4 years and I think I’m really luckily to get it back after so long.

Try archive.org and see how some of your favorite web sites like hotmail, yahoo or google use to look like in past.