Registered on July 2, 2021, Q45375.SITE is paid up until July 2, 2022. That makes the domain about 5 years old. Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) (IANA ID 1599) is the registrar of record, and the domain is currently past its expiry date. Its record is locked against unauthorised transfer. The registrant is listed in China. Its nameservers are expirens3.hichina.com and expirens4.hichina.com. 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. 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. 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. 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.
Whois Data Center has 5 historical WHOIS snapshots for Q45375.SITE. The earliest capture is from July 5, 2021 and the most recent from August 17, 2022. Together they cover about 1 years of registration history. Historical records are useful for due diligence, brand protection and investigating the background of a website. 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. 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. Comparing snapshots makes it easy to see when the registrar, nameservers or status of a domain changed. The snapshot list below shows every capture we hold, newest first. These records help track changes in registration details, ownership signals and DNS over time.
Comparing July 8, 2022 with August 17, 2022 shows 6 fields changed. Status flags were updated: redemptionPeriod, serverTransferProhibited, serverHold and pendingDelete were added and autoRenewPeriod and ok were removed. Select any snapshot below to see the exact record that was captured on that date.
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