A claim is being made about the domain having been taken out of use by 2005, and being unable to receive emails at that time. There are strong circumstances pointing to this claim being an outright lie, not least the fact that the domain was available for scraping as of 2005. I think DNS records from the time period could contribute to shedding light on this :)
det_nya_livet@aggregatet.org 3 days ago
A claim is being made about the domain having been taken out of use by 2005, and being unable to receive emails at that time. There are strong circumstances pointing to this claim being an outright lie, not least the fact that the domain was available for scraping as of 2005. I think DNS records from the time period could contribute to shedding light on this :)
kn33@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s pretty limited. DNS records won’t show whether the mail server was up or not.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 days ago
If the DNS records for the mail server were missing, it would suggest that they didn’t intend to receive mail, even if a mail server were actually up.
kn33@lemmy.world 2 days ago
But the records could’ve also been left up long after the server was taken down just out of laziness or mismanagement.
det_nya_livet@aggregatet.org 3 days ago
Very true! :) if you have additional ways of showing that a mail server was operational in 2005 I’m happy to hear them :)
kn33@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Email archives would be best. If not that, look to see if any of the scanners like Censys or Shodan have records back that far showing SMTP running.