iuu.ink

IUU.INK was registered on August 27, 2024, and is set to expire on August 27, 2025. This gives it about 2 years of history. The domain is managed by NameCheap, Inc. (IANA ID 1068) and is past its expiry date. The registrant country on record is Iceland. 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. Changes to the registrant organisation can point to a sale, a merger or simply an update of company details. 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. When a domain uses its own nameservers, the owner runs the DNS directly instead of relying on a hosting or DNS provider. Registry locks add an extra layer of protection for valuable names, because changes then need manual confirmation by the registry. 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.

Between March 20, 2023 and August 28, 2024, 33 fields of the record changed. The domain moved from Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) to NameCheap, Inc.. Status flags were updated: addPeriod and ok were removed. It was renewed: the expiry date went from March 19, 2024 to August 27, 2025. The complete history is available below and can be exported for your own analysis.

The Whois Data Center archive contains 15 historical WHOIS snapshots for IUU.INK. The latest available snapshot is dated August 28, 2024. Historical records are useful for due diligence, brand protection and investigating the background of a website. Security teams use WHOIS history to spot suspicious ownership changes and to link related domains. These records help track changes in registration details, ownership signals and DNS over time. The snapshot list below shows every capture we hold, newest first. Snapshots are collected over time, so the gaps between them depend on how often the record was checked. 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.