When was osha.gov built?
Analyzed 26 October 2026. Re-analyze
Estimated launch
January 1997
There's good evidence for the year, but the exact month is less certain.
- 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
- ~30 years
- From estimated launch
- Domain registered
- October 1997
- Not the launch date
- First evidence
- January 1997
- 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.
Timeline
July 1996 – January 1997
Between January 1997 and July 2005
October 1997
Domain re-registered
The current registration started after the website was already online — the domain likely lapsed or changed hands.
Confirmed
Between March 2008 and November 2010
Between November 2010 and February 2016
Between February 2016 and June 2021
Between July and August 2021
Built with today
The website blocked our request (common with bot protection).
- Hosting / CDN
AWS, 90% confidence. Show evidence.
- Amazon CloudFront x-amz-cf-id header
- 90% detection confidence
Why we think it launched in 19975 pieces of evidence, each linked to its source
- First archived copy of the website: January 1997.
January 1997
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 1997
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
November 2010
jQuery first seen
jQuery appears in archived copies of the site from this date.
Background onlyInternet Archive (Wayback Machine)
February 2016
Bootstrap first seen
Bootstrap appears in archived copies of the site from this date.
Background onlyInternet Archive (Wayback Machine)
June 2021
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 websiteUnavailable
- Archived page comparisonChecked
320 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 1997 · get.gov
- Registered
- 2 October 1997
- Registration expires
- 9 September 2027
- Registry record updated
- 15 August 2026
- Registrar
- get.gov
- Nameservers
- a1-165.akam.net, a10-66.akam.net, a24-67.akam.net, a5-64.akam.net, a6-65.akam.net, a7-66.akam.net
Public registry data via RDAP. Registrant details are never collected.