Registered on February 5, 2003, KENT.DE.US is paid up until February 4, 2027. This gives it about 23 years of history. US Locality Zone Manager (IANA ID 0) is the registrar of record, and the domain is currently active. Just 82 days are left before expiry, so renewal is due shortly. The owner organisation on record is Registry Services, LLC from United States. 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. 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. 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. 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. Registrars are the companies accredited to sell and manage domain names, and the sponsoring registrar is the one currently responsible for this name. Managed DNS providers are often used for speed, security and protection against attacks.
Comparing October 16, 2022 with February 18, 2026 shows 30 fields changed. The domain moved from US Locality to US Locality Zone Manager. Status flags were updated: inactive, serverTransferProhibited and clientHold were removed. The registrant organisation became visible in the public record. It was renewed: the expiry date went from February 4, 2023 to February 4, 2027. The full record, including every stored snapshot, can be downloaded in JSON, XML or CSV.
The Whois Data Center archive contains 7 historical WHOIS snapshots for KENT.DE.US. The newest snapshot was taken on February 18, 2026. Security teams use WHOIS history to spot suspicious ownership changes and to link related domains. 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. 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.
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