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WDH-072 Websites, Domains & Internet Infrastructure

Websites, Domains & Internet InfrastructureWDH-072

How can I tell who hosted a website in the past?

Reconstruct the domain’s historic DNS and infrastructure, then trace the provider and customer assignment for the relevant period.

What to do

Useful sources include historic DNS, nameservers, prior IPs, certificate records, CDN or proxy configuration, registrar changes, invoices, support records, backups, migrations and provider assignment data. Build a dated timeline.

Key takeaway

Current hosting shows only the present position; historic attribution requires period-specific records.

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Where this question leads

These links explain why the next page may matter, rather than presenting an undifferentiated list.