According to its WHOIS record, ABC2NEWS.COM was created on March 6, 2003 and expires on March 6, 2026. That is around 23 years of continuous registration. It is registered through MarkMonitor Inc. (IANA ID 292) and is past its expiry date. DNS is served by ns-1299.awsdns-34.org, ns-1605.awsdns-08.co.uk, ns-312.awsdns-39.com and ns-549.awsdns-04.net, which means its DNS is run by Amazon Route 53. Changes to the registrant organisation can point to a sale, a merger or simply an update of company details. 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. Privacy services replace the owner's contact details in the public record with those of a proxy, which is common for personal registrations. 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.
In the period from March 6, 2022 to August 7, 2025, 18 fields of the record were modified. Status flags were updated: client delete prohibited, client transfer prohibited and client update prohibited were added and clientDeleteProhibited, clientTransferProhibited and clientUpdateProhibited were removed. It was renewed: the expiry date went from March 6, 2023 to March 6, 2026. The full record, including every stored snapshot, can be downloaded in JSON, XML or CSV.
For ABC2NEWS.COM, Whois Data Center keeps 17 historical WHOIS snapshots. The most recent capture is from August 7, 2025. The snapshot list below shows every capture we hold, newest first. Each snapshot is a dated copy of the public WHOIS record as it looked when it was collected. Buyers often review the history of a domain before purchasing it, to see past owners and registrars. Historical records are useful for due diligence, brand protection and investigating the background of a website. A long history with few changes usually points to a stable owner, while frequent changes can signal a transfer or a resale. Investigators use dated records to establish who controlled a domain at a specific point in time.
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