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When was netflix.com built?

Analyzed 18 October 2026. Re-analyze

Estimated launch

January 1999

Medium confidenceLikely range: July 1998 – January 1999

There's good evidence for the year, but the exact month is less certain.

Website age
~28 years
From estimated launch
Domain registered
November 1997
Not the launch date
First evidence
January 1999
Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
Current version
No clear redesign
A possible change is in the timeline

History at a glance

The domain and the website have separate lives. Website age is measured from the launch, not from registration.

Domain registeredLikely launch rangeWebsite onlineMajor change

Timeline

  1. November 1997

    Domain registered

    The domain was registered. This is not the same as the website launching.

    Confirmed

  2. July 1998 – January 1999

    Estimated launch

    Based on: first archived copy of the website.

    Medium confidenceView evidence

  3. Between January 1999 and January 2008

    Possible major redesign

    The page layout changed a lot. Homepage title changed.

    Medium confidenceBeforeAfter

  4. Between January 2008 and January 2012

    Possible major redesign

    The page layout changed a lot. Homepage title changed.

    Medium confidenceBeforeAfter

  5. Between January 2012 and January 2017

    Possible major redesign

    The page layout changed a lot.

    Not certainBeforeAfter

  6. Between December 2018 and December 2020

    Possible major redesign

    The page layout changed a lot.

    Not certainBeforeAfter

  7. Between November 2022 and July 2023

    Possible major redesign

    The page layout changed a lot.

    Not certainBeforeAfter

Built with today

This website asks crawlers not to fetch its homepage, so we only used historical evidence.

Why we think it launched in 19994 pieces of evidence, each linked to its source
  • First archived copy of the website: January 1999.
  • Domain registered: November 1997 (14 months earlier).

  1. November 1997

    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

  2. January 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

  3. January 2017

    React first seen

    React appears in archived copies of the site from this date.

    Background onlyInternet Archive (Wayback Machine)

  4. December 2018

    Bootstrap first seen

    Bootstrap 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

235 months of archived homepage copies; 12 compared in detail (sampling was cut short). BuiltWhen estimates from observable evidence and can be wrong. How estimates work

Domain registrationRegistered November 1997 · MarkMonitor Inc.
Registered
11 November 1997
Registration expires
10 November 2027
Registry record updated
9 October 2025
Registrar
MarkMonitor Inc.
Nameservers
ns-1372.awsdns-43.org, ns-1984.awsdns-56.co.uk, ns-659.awsdns-18.net, ns-81.awsdns-10.com

Public registry data via RDAP. Registrant details are never collected.

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