aoimanipal.org

According to its WHOIS record, AOIMANIPAL.ORG was created on September 24, 2012 and expires on September 24, 2018. That is around 14 years of continuous registration. It is registered through Wild West Domains LLC (IANA ID 440) and is past its expiry date. Status flags block unauthorised transfer, deletion and updates. The registrant country on record is India. DNS is served by ns47.domaincontrol.com and ns48.domaincontrol.com, which means its DNS is run by GoDaddy. 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. Registry locks add an extra layer of protection for valuable names, because changes then need manual confirmation by the registry. Managed DNS providers are often used for speed, security and protection against attacks. 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. A registrar transfer moves the management of a domain from one company to another without changing the domain name itself.

In the period from October 20, 2016 to December 6, 2017, 6 fields of the record were modified. Status flags were updated: clientUpdateProhibited was added and autoRenewPeriod was removed. It was renewed: the expiry date went from September 24, 2017 to September 24, 2018. The full record, including every stored snapshot, can be downloaded in JSON, XML or CSV.

For AOIMANIPAL.ORG, Whois Data Center keeps 7 historical WHOIS snapshots. The most recent capture is from December 6, 2017. Snapshots are collected over time, so the gaps between them depend on how often the record was checked. 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. Each snapshot is a dated copy of the public WHOIS record as it looked when it was collected.