Starting point during creation of the website is date of registration of a domain name, in other words, of the URL address. From the moment of registration of URL there pass several hours or days, and the site administrator attaches the address to the hosting suitable for it. At the same time data on registration of URL register in the international service WHOIS.
Instruction
1. WHOIS contains information on all domains and domain zones registered on the Internet. Therefore it is possible to define lifetime of the website, having referred to the WHOIS database.
It is possible to use information from WHOIS service, having followed the link:
http://www.ripn.net/nic/whois/
or
http://whois-service.ru/
Open any of the offered websites in your browser and enter the address of the website which lifetime you want to learn into a special window of input of the desirable URL address located on both of these pages. After input of the address key "Enter" on the keyboard or click the Search button (->) on the page of request. Service will contact records of databases WHOIS.
2. In several seconds the page of the website will be refreshed, and on it you will see detailed information on the domain and also accompanying this information this.
Find the lines "created" and "paid-till" in information on the domain. The first field - "created" – contains the acquisition date of the domain his administrator. This date is considered in the first afternoon of life of the domain. In the second field under the name "paid-till" the date to which the domain was paid is specified. If the URL address will not be prolonged up to this date by the administrator, the domain will be blocked for 30 days, and after a while is offered for an auction of domains.
3. If with a year everything is clear, he registers in a full view, for example, "2011", then with month and day of creation of the domain not everything is clear, for example "2008-11-03". Month, and then day at first is specified in WHOIS therefore "11-03" designates on November 3.
4. Knowing date of registration of the domain, you can calculate lifetime of the website. It can help to avoid a fraudulent website. Often Internet pyramids and other fraudulent online projects specify on the pages lifetime of "business", for example, 2005-2011. While the domain can be acquired only in 2010 or 2011.