About JDM Wiki

The Story of GTR-Registry.com

In January 2016, Mark Dodd — a GT-R enthusiast from Perth, Australia known as sin- on SAU Community and 9TR on gtr.co.uk — launched GTR-Registry.com with a comprehensive database of every R34 Skyline GT-R ever produced. He had spent an estimated 100 hours on the R34 data alone, painstakingly extracting and cross-referencing VIN records from the Nissan FAST Electronic Parts Catalogue, verifying details against dealer records and with owners worldwide.

By late 2016, the site had expanded to cover the complete production runs of the R32, R33, R34 and R35 GT-R — approximately 1,865,530 vehicles in total. The scope continued to grow, eventually encompassing the Nissan Silvia, 180SX, Stagea, Fairlady Z, Figaro, Pulsar GTI-R, and other iconic JDM platforms. Mark estimated he invested over 1,000 hours and a significant amount of his own money into the project.

He wasn't working alone. Brendon designed and built the website, powered by his own "Apathy Engine" framework. Steve developed the database backend and assisted with data collection. A dedicated group of researchers — Brad and IronChef (who together helped track down 92 missing VINs), Cam (model code research), K66 SKY (UK GTR list), BenTaylor200 (UK GTR details), Rich, Damien, Tessa, Rajeel (MrFijiGold), and Tyson — all contributed data, tracked down gaps, and verified production numbers that no official source had ever published. Kristian Appelt of Iron Chef Imports and Josh at 7Tune provided Japanese translations, while andreasgtr contributed German translations.

For the better part of a decade, GTR-Registry.com was the definitive reference that owners, importers, dealers, and enthusiasts worldwide relied upon. Countless forum posts, buyer's guides, and import documents linked to it as the authoritative source for verifying VIN details, identifying special editions, confirming colour codes, and understanding production numbers. From August 2017, hosting was provided by Assured I.T. (assuredit.com.au), as credited in the footer of the original site throughout that period.

What Happened

In mid-2025, GTR-Registry.com went offline. According to reports from the GTR USA Blog and community discussion on GTRLife, the outage was initially attributed to a server hardware failure. It was subsequently alleged that a financial and operational dispute had arisen regarding the hosting arrangement, with claims that payments made over several years for hosting and maintenance may not have been properly applied. It was also alleged that the site's data had been deleted. The full circumstances remain unclear, and legal proceedings were reportedly initiated.

It is worth noting that between approximately 2021 and 2022, the Assured I.T. hosting credit in the site's footer was replaced with the anonymous text "Hosting kindly provided by donor" — as visible in archived snapshots from that period onward.

The domain gtr.com was reportedly acquired as a planned future home for the registry. As of early 2026, both gtr-registry.com and gtr.com display "Coming Soon" pages, but no relaunch timeline has been announced and the effort appears to have stalled.

Meanwhile, all the links that the GT-R community had built up over the years — in forum posts, in bookmarks, in saved references — went dead. The data still existed in Wayback Machine snapshots, but navigating archived pages is slow, unreliable, and a far cry from the clean searchable experience the original site provided.

Why JDM Wiki Exists

This data is too valuable to lose.

JDM Wiki has no affiliation with the original GTR-Registry.com team. We are not claiming their work as our own and we are not attempting to replace any future relaunch of the registry. What we have done is recover the dataset from publicly available archive snapshots and rebuild it into a functional, searchable website — so that the GT-R community can continue to access the information they have relied upon for years, without having to dig through the Wayback Machine page by page.

All credit for the original research, data compilation, and the thousands of hours of work belongs to Mark Dodd and every contributor named above. We are simply trying to keep their work alive and accessible for the community that depends on it.

If any of the original contributors would like to get in touch — whether to be involved, to request changes, or for any other reason — please reach out on our Telegram.

Sources & Image Credits

The production data on this site consists of factual records — VINs, build numbers, colour codes and option data — which are not themselves subject to copyright. They have been independently recompiled from publicly available sources and from archive.org snapshots of the original registry.

Photographs, brochure scans and other documents were compiled from the original GTR-Registry community archive, preserved via the Wayback Machine, and were originally donated anonymously by enthusiasts. Where you see a clean studio-style vehicle image, it is an original illustration we generated to avoid reusing third-party photography; documentary material — brochure pages, VIN plates and images showing the specific features of a particular car — is preserved as-is because its value is in showing the real, specific thing.

We make no ownership claim over donated material. If one of these images or documents is yours and you would like it credited or removed, please message us on Telegram and we will sort it out promptly.