Quoting Mark Hughes on Saturday March 02, 2002:
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| > If the creation date is known then people can tell what version of
| > the name policy was in effect at the time the domain was created.
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| So far, I can't see a reason why the creation date needs to be visible.

It is worth noting that the creation date is unreliable for old domains.
Speaking from personal experience, my domain name (cynosure.com.au)
shows as being registered in 1998, when it was in fact registered around
1994.

If I query a number of other .com.au domain names I know of in existence
pre-1995, AUNIC contains a creation date of 1995 or later.

I don't know how many domains this affects.

kim