Company Domains
Company Domains: Registry Dates and Archive History for Funded Companies
Every funded company has a domain with a history of its own. This is the index, with a downloadable dataset.
Key takeaways
- 2 companies covered so far, one new post a day.
- Each post gives the domain’s registry creation date, expiry, registrar, extension and setup, and what the Internet Archive holds from before the company existed.
- A sale price is printed only when a verified source is cited. Otherwise the post says none was found.
Funded companies are usually described by their money. This series looks at something quieter: the domain. For each company it records when the name was first registered, who the registrar is, how the address is set up, and what the Internet Archive holds from before the company existed.
The most recent post is Motive’s Address Is gomotive.com, Not motive.com.
All posts
Dataset
The full list is available as data.json, updated with every post. It carries the company, domain, registry creation date, rounded funding, extension and post type.
Frequently asked questions
What is this series?
A post a day about a funded company and the domain it uses: when it was registered, how it is set up, what the Internet Archive holds, and how the address relates to the company’s name.
Where does the data come from?
Registry records, public DNS, the Internet Archive, IANA’s extension database, Wikidata and the Crunchbase Unicorn Board. Each post lists its sources. Funding figures are rounded and are not valuations.
Why do most posts give no purchase price?
Company domain purchases are mostly private, and the registry does not record prices. A figure is printed only when a verified, cited source exists.
