BAOLAN.WANG dates back to January 12, 2019; its registration is valid until January 12, 2020. That is around 7 years of continuous registration. Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) (IANA ID 1599) manages the name, which is past its expiry date at the moment. The registrant country on record is China. Its nameservers are dns23.hichina.com and dns24.hichina.com. 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. 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. When a domain uses its own nameservers, the owner runs the DNS directly instead of relying on a hosting or DNS provider. Domains that are not renewed before their expiry date normally enter a grace and redemption period before they can be registered again. The creation date shows when the name was first registered, while the expiry date shows how long the current registration has been paid for. 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. 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. 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. 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.
The record was updated in 35 fields between September 23, 2017 and January 17, 2019. The domain moved from Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co. Ltd. to Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn). DNS moved from expired.myhostadmin.net to dns23.hichina.com and dns24.hichina.com. Status flags were updated: addPeriod was added and autoRenewPeriod was removed. It was renewed: the expiry date went from August 24, 2018 to January 12, 2020. Select any snapshot below to see the exact record that was captured on that date.
For BAOLAN.WANG, Whois Data Center keeps 7 historical WHOIS snapshots. The newest snapshot was taken on January 17, 2019. 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. Investigators use dated records to establish who controlled a domain at a specific point in time. 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. Snapshots are collected over time, so the gaps between them depend on how often the record was checked. 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.
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