How to find the last IP used for an expired domain name?

Question

Is it possible to look up the last IP address of an expired domain name?

Solution 1

Yes, you can find that information using the ViewDNS.info IP History page. I can see the last 3 IP addresses for a domain I let expire earlier this year and the two IP addresses used in the past for a domain I let expire several years ago (it might have been about 5 years now since it expired). There's no cost to perform a search on a domain name's IP history at the site.

Solution 2

It is possible to find an IP address of an expired domain if you know where the previous DNS server is. For example if you want to know IP address of domain.com from DNS server nsserver.com, you just type:

nslookup domain.com nsserver.com

The result should be like that:

Server: nsserver.com Address: 1.2.3.4#53

Name: domain.com Address: 4.3.2.1

And thats it.

Comments

[VL-80]

Not sure if that what you want, but there are services online which can provide history of IP addresses for domain.

[Frank Thomas]

I would start with a whois search on the domain to find their registry domain id. then use it to search for any publically available registrar records. you may find some services do charge for IP and NS history information, like this one, showing registrar info for purple.com: domainreport.domaintools.com/purple.com

[mtak]

This only works if the nameserver at nsserver.com is still hosting the domain.

[Lorenzo Magon]

It worked with one of my domains after 1 day from the transfer, I managed to recover the IP of the previous server and recover the email history. Tomáš Lieskovan saved my day!