Registered on April 30, 2015, KAIAPOIBAPTIST.ORG is paid up until April 30, 2018. This gives it about 11 years of history. Synergy Wholesale Pty Ltd (IANA ID 1609) is the registrar of record, and the domain is currently past its expiry date. The registrant country on record is New Zealand. Its nameservers are get.2ns1.com and get.2ns2.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. 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. Managed DNS providers are often used for speed, security and protection against attacks. 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. 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.
Comparing April 27, 2014 with July 16, 2017 shows 29 fields changed. The domain moved from PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com (R27-LROR) to Synergy Wholesale Pty Ltd. DNS moved from dns17.parkpage.foundationapi.com and dns18.parkpage.foundationapi.com to get.2ns1.com and get.2ns2.com. Status flags were updated: OK was added and clientTransferProhibited and autoRenewPeriod were removed. It was renewed: the expiry date went from March 25, 2015 to April 30, 2018. The full record, including every stored snapshot, can be downloaded in JSON, XML or CSV.
The Whois Data Center archive contains 5 historical WHOIS snapshots for KAIAPOIBAPTIST.ORG. The newest snapshot was taken on July 16, 2017. Comparing snapshots makes it easy to see when the registrar, nameservers or status of a domain changed. Snapshots are collected over time, so the gaps between them depend on how often the record was checked. 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. 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. 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.
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