actualastro.org

According to its WHOIS record, ACTUALASTRO.ORG was created on July 9, 2016 and expires on July 9, 2018. That is around 10 years of continuous registration. It is registered through GoDaddy.com LLC (IANA ID 146) and is past its expiry date. The registrant country on record is India. When a domain uses its own nameservers, the owner runs the DNS directly instead of relying on a hosting or DNS provider. An older registration date is often seen as a sign of an established website, although age alone says nothing about who owns it today. Status flags such as transfer or delete locks are set by the registrar or registry to protect a domain from unauthorised changes. Managed DNS providers are often used for speed, security and protection against attacks. Registry locks add an extra layer of protection for valuable names, because changes then need manual confirmation by the registry. Public WHOIS records can show the registrant organisation and country, while many owners now hide personal details behind privacy services. Registrars are the companies accredited to sell and manage domain names, and the sponsoring registrar is the one currently responsible for this name.

In the period from July 12, 2016 to September 20, 2017, 19 fields of the record were modified. Status flags were updated: inactive and pendingDelete were added and addPeriod, clientDeleteProhibited, clientRenewProhibited and clientTransferProhibited were removed. It was renewed: the expiry date went from July 9, 2017 to July 9, 2018. The full record, including every stored snapshot, can be downloaded in JSON, XML or CSV.

For ACTUALASTRO.ORG, Whois Data Center keeps 6 historical WHOIS snapshots. The most recent capture is from September 20, 2017. Comparing snapshots makes it easy to see when the registrar, nameservers or status of a domain changed. Snapshots are collected over time, so the gaps between them depend on how often the record was checked. The snapshot list below shows every capture we hold, newest first. 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.