Way back machine?

I would say it is accurate. It shows screenshots from a precise moment in history. Very useful...

Thank you.

No, the age has nothing to do with what was done with the domain at any given time in the past.
Unless that domain has never been dropped, changed registrars, etc, age starts when someone regs it.

@iowadawg so you r saying that it wasn't necessarily regged then? I checked who.is and it went back to 2006. So it dates back to 2006? When the Hawkeyes were good

The Wayback Machine shows what was on that domain when it was crawled/saved at a given point in time, not how long a domain has been registered. If a domain is an 11 year old domain, that means it has been constantly registered and never dropped, etc. for the ENTIRE 11 year period.

Just because was registered and had something on it 11 years ago does not make it an 11 year old domain.

OK gotcha. Thanks for that

How long in between dropping g/catching g do you have befors you have to say its newly registered?

wcpthree said:

How long in between dropping g/catching g do you have befors you have to say its newly registered?

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As soon as a domain is released to the open market after being dropped (it has to go through the different phases before it gets to this), when the next person registers it then it's age starts all over again.

OK gotcha thanks for that.

Is it fair to say, "dates back to?". Or should one say it was dropped a couple of months, picked up, then repurchased?

you can say it was caught after it dropped, but most domainers will go to the whois to check the age

OK. So if the way back says 2004 and the whole says 2006-2009 and then 2010-now,, I say?

wcpthree said:

OK. So if the way back says 2004 and the whole says 2006-2009 and then 2010-now,, I say?

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Don't even look at the Wayback Machine when looking to state a domains age. Go to a whois site like whois.com, who.is or a registrars whois lookup (usually in the footer of their site) and go by the "Creation Date" when stating a domains age.

You can state that it was registered back in 2004 (or whatever) and had a website on it. I don't think that will make any difference though.