According to its WHOIS record, AH431.LINK was created on September 9, 2016 and expires on September 9, 2017. That is around 10 years of continuous registration. It is registered through Alpnames Limited (IANA ID 1857) and is past its expiry date. Status flags block unauthorised transfer. The registrant country on record is Cambodia. DNS is served by dns10.parkpage.foundationapi.com and dns9.parkpage.foundationapi.com. 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. Registry locks add an extra layer of protection for valuable names, because changes then need manual confirmation by the registry. Privacy services replace the owner's contact details in the public record with those of a proxy, which is common for personal registrations. Status flags such as transfer or delete locks are set by the registrar or registry to protect a domain from unauthorised changes. An older registration date is often seen as a sign of an established website, although age alone says nothing about who owns it today. A registrar transfer moves the management of a domain from one company to another without changing the domain name itself. Changes to the registrant organisation can point to a sale, a merger or simply an update of company details. 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 September 10, 2016 to October 29, 2017, 11 fields of the record were modified. DNS moved from ns1.dns.com and ns2.dns.com to dns10.parkpage.foundationapi.com and dns9.parkpage.foundationapi.com. Status flags were updated: pendingDelete, redemptionPeriod and serverHold were added and addPeriod was removed. The full record, including every stored snapshot, can be downloaded in JSON, XML or CSV.
For AH431.LINK, Whois Data Center keeps 5 historical WHOIS snapshots. The most recent capture is from October 29, 2017. 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. Historical records are useful for due diligence, brand protection and investigating the background of a website. Security teams use WHOIS history to spot suspicious ownership changes and to link related domains. These records help track changes in registration details, ownership signals and DNS over time.
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