That's an excellent idea.
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> SPAMHAVEN.COM 01-Jul-1995 - 30-Jun-1996 SPAMHAVEN.COM-1
> SPAMHAVEN.COM 06-Aug-1996 - 05-Aug-1998 SPAMHAVEN.COM-2
> SPAMHAVEN.COM 02-Nov-1998 - 01-Nov-1999 SPAMHAVEN.COM-3
>
> which would enable you to do historical lookups. In a REAL ideal
> world, the registrar would, any time the owner-info is changed,
> create a whowas record for the domain and instead of "Record
> Expired/Returned to Pool", it might say something like:
>
> Owner Contact Changed on 15-Jul-1998
>
> I wonder if there's an RFC in the making here....
>
> D
>