According to its WHOIS record, METROMEDI.NET was created on December 8, 2017 and expires on December 8, 2023. This gives it about 8 years of history. It is registered through PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com (IANA ID 303) and is past its expiry date. Unauthorised transfer are prevented by its status flags. The registrant country on record is India. DNS is served by ns1.dnsgem.com, ns2.dnsgem.com, ns3.dnsgem.com and ns4.dnsgem.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. Managed DNS providers are often used for speed, security and protection against attacks. 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. Privacy services replace the owner's contact details in the public record with those of a proxy, which is common for personal registrations. Public WHOIS records can show the registrant organisation and country, while many owners now hide personal details behind privacy services.
In the period from November 28, 2022 to January 23, 2023, 3 fields of the record were modified. It was renewed: the expiry date went from December 8, 2022 to December 8, 2023. Scroll down to see the full current record and the complete list of historical snapshots.
The Whois Data Center archive contains 8 historical WHOIS snapshots for METROMEDI.NET. The most recent capture is from January 23, 2023. 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. Security teams use WHOIS history to spot suspicious ownership changes and to link related domains. 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.
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