According to its WHOIS record, A-D.SITE was created on July 3, 2023 and expires on July 3, 2024. That is around 3 years of continuous registration. It is registered through Google Inc (IANA ID 895) and is past its expiry date. Status flags block unauthorised transfer. The registrant country on record is Canada. DNS is served by ns3.hostland.ru and ns.hostland.ru. The creation date shows when the name was first registered, while the expiry date shows how long the current registration has been paid for. Domains that are not renewed before their expiry date normally enter a grace and redemption period before they can be registered again. A registrar transfer moves the management of a domain from one company to another without changing the domain name itself. Privacy services replace the owner's contact details in the public record with those of a proxy, which is common for personal registrations. Nameservers decide where a domain's DNS is hosted, so a change of nameservers usually means the website or email moved to a new provider. Renewals are usually made for one to ten years at a time, so an expiry date far in the future shows a long-term commitment to the name. Changes to the registrant organisation can point to a sale, a merger or simply an update of company details.
In the period from August 26, 2022 to July 4, 2023, 16 fields of the record were modified. The domain moved from Go Daddy LLC to Google Inc. DNS moved from ns22.domaincontrol.com and ns21.domaincontrol.com to ns3.hostland.ru and ns.hostland.ru. Status flags were updated: serverTransferProhibited and addPeriod were added and clientDeleteProhibited, serverHold and clientRenewProhibited were removed. It was renewed: the expiry date went from April 13, 2023 to July 3, 2024. The full record, including every stored snapshot, can be downloaded in JSON, XML or CSV.
For A-D.SITE, Whois Data Center keeps 9 historical WHOIS snapshots. The most recent capture is from July 4, 2023. Investigators use dated records to establish who controlled a domain at a specific point in time. A long history with few changes usually points to a stable owner, while frequent changes can signal a transfer or a resale. Buyers often review the history of a domain before purchasing it, to see past owners and registrars. Each snapshot is a dated copy of the public WHOIS record as it looked when it was collected.
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