When was canterbury.gov.uk built?
Analyzed 9 November 2026. Re-analyze
Estimated launch
November 1999
There's good evidence for the year, but the exact month is less certain.
BuiltWhen verified that canterbury.gov.uk launched in November 1999 (51% confidence), with domain registration recorded in October 2001.
- The current domain registration is newer than the first evidence of the website, so the domain was probably re-registered or changed hands. The registration date is not used as a lower bound.
- Website age
- ~27 years
- From estimated launch
- Domain registered
- October 2001
- Not the launch date
- First evidence
- November 1999
- Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
- Current version
- Between November and December 2020
- 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
May–November 1999
Between November 1999 and June 2005
October 2001
Domain re-registered
The current registration started after the website was already online — the domain likely lapsed or changed hands.
Confirmed
Between June 2005 and July 2009
Between July 2009 and September 2019
Between November and December 2020
November 2026
Built with today
Detected on the live homepage — it runs on Drupal. Select a technology to see the evidence.
- CMS
Drupalsince 2023, 100% confidence. Show evidence.
- Generator meta tag names Drupal
- X-Generator header names Drupal
- Drupal settings object in page
- Drupal /sites/ asset paths
- 100% detection confidence
- Hosting / CDN
AWS, 90% confidence. Show evidence.
- Amazon CloudFront x-amz-cf-id header
- 90% detection confidence
- Web server
Nginx, 90% confidence. Show evidence.
- Server header is nginx
- 90% detection confidence
Why we think it launched in 19996 pieces of evidence, each linked to its source
- First archived copy of the website: November 1999.
November 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
October 2001
Domain registered
The domain's current registration began on this date. A website can only launch after this, but often launches much later.
Disagrees, so not usedRDAP registry dataView source
September 2019
Google Tag Manager first seen
Google Tag Manager appears in archived copies of the site from this date.
Background onlyInternet Archive (Wayback Machine)
October 2021
Gatsby first seen
Gatsby appears in archived copies of the site from this date.
Background onlyInternet Archive (Wayback Machine)
September 2022
Oldest page date in the sitemap
The oldest "last modified" date among 643 sitemap entries.
Too recent to date the launchXML sitemapView source
April 2023
Drupal first seen
Drupal 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 websiteChecked
- Archived page comparisonChecked
215 months of archived homepage copies; 14 compared in detail (sampling was cut short). BuiltWhen estimates from observable evidence and can be wrong. How estimates work
Domain registrationRegistered October 2001 · Spitfire Network Services Ltd
- Registered
- 5 October 2001
- Registration expires
- 5 October 2027
- Registry record updated
- 24 September 2026
- Registrar
- Spitfire Network Services Ltd
- Nameservers
- ns1-05.azure-dns.com, ns2-05.azure-dns.net, ns3-05.azure-dns.org, ns4-05.azure-dns.info
Public registry data via RDAP. Registrant details are never collected.