When was paulgraham.com built?
Analyzed 17 October 2026. Re-analyze
Estimated launch
September 2000
Some historical evidence exists, but the available signals don't fully agree or are limited.
- Website age
- ~26 years
- From estimated launch
- Domain registered
- October 1998
- Not the launch date
- First evidence
- September 2000
- Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
- Current version
- No major change detected
History at a glance
The domain and the website have separate lives. Website age is measured from the launch, not from registration.
Timeline
October 1998
Domain registered
The domain was registered. This is not the same as the website launching.
Recorded
March–September 2000
October 2026
Why we think paulgraham.com launched in 2000
- First archived copy of the website: September 2000.
- Domain registered: October 1998 (23 months earlier).
October 1998
Domain registered
The domain's current registration began on this date. A website can only launch after this, but often launches much later.
Launch can't be earlier (+5 pts)RDAP registry dataView source
September 2000
First archived copy of the website
The earliest successful snapshot of the homepage showing real website content in the Internet Archive.
Basis of the estimate (+27 pts)Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)View source
Built with today
Detected on the live homepage. Select a technology to see the evidence.
No common technologies were detected with enough confidence to report.
Domain
- Registered
- 29 October 1998
- Registration expires
- 28 October 2027
- Registry record updated
- 13 October 2026
- Registrar
- easyDNS Technologies Inc.
- Nameservers
- yns1.yahoo.com, yns2.yahoo.com
Public registry data via RDAP. Registrant details are never collected.
What we checked
- Domain registry (RDAP)Checked
- Internet Archive indexChecked
- Live websiteChecked
- Archived page comparisonChecked
285 months of archived homepage copies; 6 compared in detail. BuiltWhen estimates from observable evidence and can be wrong. How estimates work