I had to do some digging into history, and these were some of the tools I used
to get a picture
https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/data/zfr/root
most useful:
https://completedns.com
https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/tree/master/wayback-cdx-server
somewhat useful:
https://securitytrails.com
https://whois.whoisxmlapi.com
don't know:
DomainTools
Netcraft
viewdns.info
DMOZ
https://about.rdap.org
not useful:
deep-whois
Whoxy

