HOUGER.INFO dates back to March 31, 2021; its registration is valid until March 31, 2022. Its age is about 5 years. Alibaba Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co. Ltd. (IANA ID 420) manages the name, which is past its expiry date at the moment. The registrant is listed in China. Its nameservers are expirens4.hichina.com and expirens3.hichina.com. When a domain uses its own nameservers, the owner runs the DNS directly instead of relying on a hosting or DNS provider. 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. Changes to the registrant organisation can point to a sale, a merger or simply an update of company details. 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. Privacy services replace the owner's contact details in the public record with those of a proxy, which is common for personal registrations. A registrar transfer moves the management of a domain from one company to another without changing the domain name itself. 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. Managed DNS providers are often used for speed, security and protection against attacks.
We have collected 5 historical WHOIS snapshots for HOUGER.INFO. The newest snapshot was taken on May 16, 2022. Comparing snapshots makes it easy to see when the registrar, nameservers or status of a domain changed. Historical records are useful for due diligence, brand protection and investigating the background of a website. Snapshots are collected over time, so the gaps between them depend on how often the record was checked. 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. Investigators use dated records to establish who controlled a domain at a specific point in time.
The record was updated in 30 fields between April 2, 2021 and May 16, 2022. The registrar changed from HiChina Zhicheng Technology Limited to Alibaba Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co. Ltd.. The nameservers moved from ns1.sedoparking.com and ns2.sedoparking.com to expirens4.hichina.com and expirens3.hichina.com. Status flags were updated: redemptionPeriod was added and addPeriod and serverTransferProhibited were removed. Scroll down to see the full current record and the complete list of historical snapshots.
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