According to its WHOIS record, AUSTRALIANVISAGUIDE.COM was created on August 24, 2024 and expires on August 24, 2026. That is around 2 years of continuous registration. It is registered through NAMECHEAP INC (IANA ID 1068) and is past its expiry date. The registrant country on record is Iceland. Public WHOIS records can show the registrant organisation and country, while many owners now hide personal details behind privacy services. Changes to the registrant organisation can point to a sale, a merger or simply an update of company details. 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. Privacy services replace the owner's contact details in the public record with those of a proxy, which is common for personal registrations. 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. Managed DNS providers are often used for speed, security and protection against attacks. A registrar transfer moves the management of a domain from one company to another without changing the domain name itself.
In the period from April 5, 2023 to August 25, 2024, 40 fields of the record were modified. The domain moved from GoDaddy.com LLC to NAMECHEAP INC. Status flags were updated: clientDeleteProhibited, clientTransferProhibited, clientRenewProhibited and clientUpdateProhibited were removed. It was renewed: the expiry date went from April 4, 2024 to August 24, 2026. The full record, including every stored snapshot, can be downloaded in JSON, XML or CSV.
For AUSTRALIANVISAGUIDE.COM, Whois Data Center keeps 26 historical WHOIS snapshots. The most recent capture is from August 25, 2024. 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. 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. 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. The snapshot list below shows every capture we hold, newest first.
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