Inadvertantly set up an email on a previusly used domain

I bought a new domain yesterday and set it up with protonmail to use as my primary email for creating accounts, and have already gotten spam emails and emails adressed to the previous owner of the domain (I have a catch-all adress). I'm pretty sure i'm going to just buy a new domain at this point but want to ask if anyone knows a way to check if a domain has ever been used before, and not just currently in …

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