Whois dates incorrect?

[FMS]

Was looking through some old domains I regged way back when (late 90's).

On each one of them I noticed the Whois info states registration around 2002.

Thought the domains show their original reg date?

Any thoughts? Take for example: etoysale.com or ub6.com reged those

a long long time ago. Obviously they were sold or lost over the years, but I wonder why their reg dates don't go back to the original dates.

Anyone?

 

[ToastyX]

The creation date shows the date it was last registered, not the date it was first registered.

 

[FMS]

And you think I would know that by now (lol) Thanks for the heads up...
Is there a place where we can check when it was originally registered?

I know whois.sc has a service that goes 5 years back, anything later than that?

Thanks

 

[Theo]

Whois.sc only goes 2 years back. Try Archive.org and Alexa.com

 

[Leading Names]

opps... wrong thread