Fewer domains have been crawled recently and will be for a couple of days as a unique number is being added to all domains and a full refresh is being forced (broken domains are normally checked with an exponential backoff and generally have slower DNS responses).

In future I hope this will allow the number of database writes to be reduced by caching some updates in RAM, freeing up capacity for more reads (maybe for that API).

It would also make it easier to bring back the old "Progress view" which I doubt many will remember as it's been gone for over 10 years IIRC but it's something I miss 😀. It showed visually how recent domains had been refreshed (and helped find a few bugs).

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I've updated the numbers on https://dnshistory.org/ . It's now archived over 66 billion DNS records for 3.6 billion domains.

#DNSHistory #DNS #Archive

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DNS Domain record history

Sorry folks but https://dnshistory.org/ now has Cloudflare "Under Attack" mode enabled - someone decided they'd request one page per IP to get around my rate limits and then hammered the crap out of the server 😭 .

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Less than a year later https://dnshistory.org/ now has data on 3 billion domains.

I'm gonna need a bigger disk 😁 .

#DNShistory #domain #domains

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DNS Domain record history

Whilst moving #DNShistory data onto new #MongoDB servers I pondered how close to the 16MB limit things are getting. https://dnshistory.org/dns-records/micahclay.us is the biggest at 4.79MB, with https://dnshistory.org/dns-records/vannaoh.com coming in close at 4.78MB so I hopefully have a couple of years before I need to change things 🤞 .

When I first setup https://dnshistory.org/ I thought I'd be lucky to archive DNS records for a million domains but 15 years later it will soon exceed 2 billion 🥳 .

The recent increase is mostly from filling the gaps (a.b.example.com is in the database but b.example.com wasn't) or missing targets (example.org has an MX of mail.example.com but mail.example.com was missing) which should improve both navigation and looking up lost records. #DNSHistory

DNS History

DNS Domain record history

Sometimes I have ideas for https://dnshistory.org/ I'm not sure I should take any further and today is one of those days 🙃 . #DNSHistory
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DNS Domain record history

I'm taking a look at adding an API for https://dnshistory.org/ for a website refresh. I've been asked a few times if there's a public/paid API - if there was what sort of calls would you like to see? #DNSHistory
DNS History

DNS Domain record history