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Domains: Deleted, Expired, Dropped . . . Age?

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I am a bit confused in this area! If I go hand reg a domain say entertovape.com and no one has ever regd it, then my reg date seems like the "birth" day. Now if love.com expired and I hand regd it (never will happen I know) it will show creation date as the date I regd it. I may find historical data showing it had been regd before. I may go to a place like screenshot.com and see all that great info. It still shows as a 1 year old domain if I regd it 12/12/16.


That does not make sense to me. In fact what makes it even more confusing is I have hand reg other domains that show with age, while others do not show with age . . . but a place like screenshot shows they both have a history. Am I losing my mind here? What am I not understanding properly?
 
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findgaylove.com

Here are some stats:

Domain was first registered on: 2016-12-05
Domain was first found by the Wayback Machine on: Wed Jul 31 21:37:44 UTC 2013

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In this case the domain is not very old to begin with. However, screenshot.com has this to say:

The most recent screenshot for this website was taken on Mar 30th, 2017.

We have 9 historic screenshots of FindGayLove.com dating back to Jul 8th, 2004.

Our earliest WHOIS history record for the FindGayLove.com domain was first recorded in the year 2007.

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So, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2016? Very very confusing to me.

Someone regd it and let it expire if I picked it up via hand reg. Does letting a domain expire/nonrenew work out like reincarnation? If we die at 80, and are reincarnated when we come back we aren't 80 anymore??!!??!! LOL
 
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Hello, the reg date is always the creation date. You can only rely on whois services (eg whois.icann.org).

*edit: waybackmachine shows only the history. Not the the creation date.
 
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Domain deleted and registered multiple of times over the years.

Age "is the length of time that a domain has been registered and active"
In other words, once dropped the age resets to 0

See https://www.namepros.com/threads/about-domain-name-age-aby-or-wby.939366/
There is probably more threads that cover this topic (domain age).

I found this video interesting
 
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So it is like reincarnation then!!

Thanks!
 
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So it is like reincarnation then!!

Thanks!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Reincarnation is the philosophical or religious concept that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body or form after each biological death. It is also called rebirth or transmigration, and is a part of the Saṃsāra doctrine of cyclic existence."

:xf.grin: yes, it is like a reincarnation
 
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Difference between the words 'age' and 'history'.

Take 2 domains:
If one has been registered continuously for 10 years, the other was registered originally 10 years ago but has been dropped/re-regged a few times, you now have one domain that has an 'age' of 10 years, but the second domain has a 'history' of 10 years. If you reg that second domain today, it has an age of 1 day, but a history of 10 years.

Drink more beer and this confusion will go away :)

P.S. Any reason in particular that you chose to use the domain findgaylove.com as an example?
;)
 
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The new creation date is like the reg day or the domain birthday.
Although you can see also when the name came up for the first time so a name can be "born again"on 01-05-2017 but excisted once back in 2006 for example.
 
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Difference between the words 'age' and 'history'.

Take 2 domains:
If one has been registered continuously for 10 years, the other was registered originally 10 years ago but has been dropped/re-regged a few times, you now have one domain that has an 'age' of 10 years, but the second domain has a 'history' of 10 years. If you reg that second domain today, it has an age of 1 day, but a history of 10 years.

Drink more beer and this confusion will go away :)

P.S. Any reason in particular that you chose to use the domain findgaylove.com as an example?
;)


Find gay love had been registered previously.
 
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HeHe..... and so the saga continues

In this case I . . .

Okay so I got this idea around Christmas 2016. I'll skip trip to casino. Ill call it a 2k loss. Ill buy some domains, if I sell any of them it is a win!

I have about 100 domains from December 2016 from Godaddy. All two year regs and many with privacy. I wouldn't register probably 80 of them again! Lots of really wasted money, unfortunately.

So this was not a recent reg!
 
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