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Hosting History

The Hosting History API provides a list of changes that have occurred in a Domain Name's registrar, IP address, and name servers. IP and name server events include the value before and after the change and indicate the type of action that triggered the event.

https://api.domaintools.com/v1/domaintools.com/hosting-history/

Sample Response

{
  response: {
    domain_name: 'domaintools.com',
    ip_history: [
      {
        action: 'N',
        action_in_words: 'New',
        actiondate: '2004-05-03',
        domain: 'DOMAINTOOLS.COM',
        post_ip: '63.247.77.156',
        pre_ip: null
      },
      {
        action: 'D',
        action_in_words: 'Not Resolvable',
        actiondate: '2005-10-02',
        domain: 'DOMAINTOOLS.COM',
        post_ip: '',
        pre_ip: '63.247.77.156'
      },
      {
        action: 'C',
        action_in_words: 'Change',
        actiondate: '2007-03-10',
        domain: 'DOMAINTOOLS.COM',
        post_ip: '66.249.17.251',
        pre_ip: '66.249.4.251'
      },
      ...
    ],
    nameserver_history: [
      {
        action: 'T',
        action_in_words: 'Transfer',
        actiondate: '2002-04-14',
        domain: 'DOMAINTOOLS.COM',
        post_mns: 'Xxxnameservers.com',
        pre_mns: 'Interland.net'
      },
      {
        action: 'T',
        action_in_words: 'Transfer',
        actiondate: '2004-11-25',
        domain: 'DOMAINTOOLS.COM',
        post_mns: 'Host.org',
        pre_mns: 'Xxxnameservers.com'
      },
      ...
    ],
    registrar_history: [
      {
        date_created: '1998-08-02',
        date_expires: '2003-08-01',
        date_lastchecked: '2003-06-28',
        date_updated: '2002-04-12',
        domain: 'DOMAINTOOLS.COM',
        registrar: 'Tucows',
        registrartag: 'Tucows'
      },
      {
        date_created: '1998-08-02',
        date_expires: '2006-08-01',
        date_lastchecked: '2005-08-21',
        date_updated: '2005-03-08',
        domain: 'DOMAINTOOLS.COM',
        registrar: 'GoDaddy.com',
        registrartag: 'Go Daddy Software Inc'
      },
      ...
    ]
  }
}

Sample Queries

  • HTML: https://api.domaintools.com/v1/domaintools.com/hosting-history/?format=html
  • JSON: https://api.domaintools.com/v1/domaintools.com/hosting-history/
  • XML: https://api.domaintools.com/v1/domaintools.com/hosting-history/?format=xml