The first ratings file for blitz available on the FIDE site is for July 2012 - https://ratings.fide.com/download.phtml ... 2012-07-01.
The first entry in the file is for Tron Aarstad -
1505300 Aarstad, Tron NOR 1805 0 1974
This shows that he had a blitz rating of 1805 but had played zero games during the period. Tricky if that's his first ever blitz rating.
Checking out his rating progress on his profile - https://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?event=1505300
shows that his first blitz rating was actually 1821 in March 2012 based on 13 games, then 1805 in May 2012 based on a further 9 games, then of course it stayed the same in July 2012 since he played no blitz games in that period.
The url for the July 2012 blitz file is http://ratings.fide.com/download/blitz_jul12frl.zip. Trying the obvious substitution - http://ratings.fide.com/download/blitz_may12frl.zip (or "mar" instead of "may") gives a 404 error, so the file is genuinely not there.
At a cursory glance the majority of entries in the "Games" column is zero which suggests that more games were played in the two previous periods.
What happened to archived FIDE ratings files for Blitz for March 2012 and May 2012?
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What happened to archived FIDE ratings files for Blitz for March 2012 and May 2012?
Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.