BY008.NET dates back to February 24, 2003; its registration is valid until February 24, 2021. That is around 23 years of continuous registration. Metaregistrar BV (IANA ID 2288) manages the name, which is past its expiry date at the moment. The registrant country on record is NETHERLANDS. Its nameservers are ns2.dn-s.nl and ns1.dn-s.nl. 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. 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. Privacy services replace the owner's contact details in the public record with those of a proxy, which is common for personal registrations.
The record was updated in 40 fields between November 29, 2017 and April 7, 2020. The domain moved from eNom Inc. to Metaregistrar BV. DNS moved from ns1.by006.net and ns2.by006.net to ns2.dn-s.nl and ns1.dn-s.nl. Status flags were updated: redemptionPeriod and pendingDelete were added and OK was removed. It was renewed: the expiry date went from February 24, 2018 to February 24, 2021. Select any snapshot below to see the exact record that was captured on that date.
For BY008.NET, Whois Data Center keeps 5 historical WHOIS snapshots. The newest snapshot was taken on April 7, 2020. These records help track changes in registration details, ownership signals and DNS over time. Historical records are useful for due diligence, brand protection and investigating the background of a website. 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.
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