When was animationfactory.com built?
Analyzed 25 October 2026. Re-analyze
Estimated launch
April 1999
Several independent sources agree on this date.
- Website age
- ~27.5 years
- From estimated launch
- Domain registered
- February 1999
- Not the launch date
- First evidence
- April 1999
- Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
- Current version
- Between June 2006 and April 2007
- Possible major redesign
History at a glance
The domain and the website have separate lives. Website age is measured from the launch, not from registration.
Timeline
February–April 1999
February 1999
Domain registered
The domain was registered. This is not the same as the website launching.
Confirmed
Between June 2006 and April 2007
Built with today
The website blocked our request (common with bot protection).
- Hosting / CDN
Cloudflare, 100% confidence. Show evidence.
- Server header is cloudflare
- cf-ray response header
- 100% detection confidence
Why we think it launched in 19994 pieces of evidence, each linked to its source
- First archived copy of the website: April 1999.
- Domain registered: February 1999 (2 months earlier).
February 1999
Domain registered
The domain's current registration began on this date. A website can only launch after this, but often launches much later.
Sets the earliest possible dateRDAP registry dataView source
April 1999
First archived copy of the website
The earliest successful snapshot of the homepage showing real website content in the Internet Archive.
The estimate is based on thisInternet Archive (Wayback Machine)View source
July 2008
Google Analytics first seen
Google Analytics appears in archived copies of the site from this date.
Background onlyInternet Archive (Wayback Machine)
December 2020
jQuery first seen
jQuery appears in archived copies of the site from this date.
Background onlyInternet Archive (Wayback Machine)
What we checked
- Domain registry (RDAP)Checked
- Internet Archive indexChecked
- Live websiteUnavailable
- Archived page comparisonChecked
145 months of archived homepage copies; 13 compared in detail. BuiltWhen estimates from observable evidence and can be wrong. How estimates work
Domain registrationRegistered February 1999 · NameCheap, Inc.
- Registered
- 9 February 1999
- Registration expires
- 6 November 2027
- Registry record updated
- 8 October 2026
- Registrar
- NameCheap, Inc.
- Nameservers
- dylan.ns.cloudflare.com, nina.ns.cloudflare.com
Public registry data via RDAP. Registrant details are never collected.