According to its WHOIS record, AQUATOTS-KATY.COM was created on January 28, 2012 and expires on August 21, 2019. That is around 14 years of continuous registration. It is registered through GoDaddy.com LLC (IANA ID 146) and is past its expiry date. Status flags block unauthorised transfer, deletion and updates. The registrant country on record is United States. DNS is served by ns15.domaincontrol.com and ns16.domaincontrol.com, which means its DNS is run by GoDaddy. Privacy services replace the owner's contact details in the public record with those of a proxy, which is common for personal registrations. Registrars are the companies accredited to sell and manage domain names, and the sponsoring registrar is the one currently responsible for this name. Public WHOIS records can show the registrant organisation and country, while many owners now hide personal details behind privacy services. Registry locks add an extra layer of protection for valuable names, because changes then need manual confirmation by the registry. Changes to the registrant organisation can point to a sale, a merger or simply an update of company details. 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. When a domain uses its own nameservers, the owner runs the DNS directly instead of relying on a hosting or DNS provider. 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.
In the period from March 16, 2014 to July 4, 2016, 22 fields of the record were modified. Only the spelling of the registrar name changed ("GODADDY.COM; LLC" to "GoDaddy.com LLC"); it is the same registrar. It was renewed: the expiry date went from January 27, 2016 to August 21, 2019. The full record, including every stored snapshot, can be downloaded in JSON, XML or CSV.
For AQUATOTS-KATY.COM, Whois Data Center keeps 5 historical WHOIS snapshots. The most recent capture is from July 4, 2016. 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. 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. These records help track changes in registration details, ownership signals and DNS over time. Security teams use WHOIS history to spot suspicious ownership changes and to link related domains. The snapshot list below shows every capture we hold, newest first. 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.
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