Disciplines of domain evidence
A domain name leaves its record in several places at once — a registrar account, a registry database, the DNS that answers for it, the archives that crawled it, the logs that recorded a certificate issued for it — and every entry on this site is filed under the one that decides its question. The six disciplines below are that filing scheme, and they are also the practical answer to "who has to be asked for this, and how long that will take."
Three disciplines cover the record itself and the infrastructure behind it. One covers the inference drawn from converging records. Two cover the forums: the policies and statutes that decide domain disputes, and the trademark comparison and valuation questions that run alongside them.
Registration and Historical Records
7 entriesWhat the registration and resolution record shows, where it is held, and what survives once it has been redacted or aged out.
Hosting and Infrastructure
2 entriesWhat a domain resolved to, where it was hosted, and where its traffic went.
Attribution and Ownership
3 entriesEstablishing who controlled a domain, and at what point — an inference from converging records, never a lookup.
Policy and Statutory Proceedings
7 entriesUDRP, URS and the ACPA: what each proceeding requires, and what an expert supplies to it.
Trademark and Confusion
2 entriesWhether a domain is confusingly similar to a mark, and whether a variant was deliberate.
Valuation and Damages
2 entriesWhat a domain was worth and what a diversion cost — stated as methodology, not as a number.
Or read the two categories straight through
Forensic analysis describes how the record is retrieved and preserved. Litigation support describes what a forum does with it.