According to its WHOIS record, STEINMETZCYMBALS.COM was created on April 5, 2016 and expires on April 5, 2018. That makes the domain about 10 years old. It is registered through DNC Holdings Inc. (IANA ID 291) and is past its expiry date. Its record is locked against unauthorised transfer, deletion and updates. The registrant is listed in United States. DNS is served by ns1.brightnoisehosting.com, ns2.brightnoisehosting.com and ns3.brightnoisehosting.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. Privacy services replace the owner's contact details in the public record with those of a proxy, which is common for personal registrations. 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. 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. Changes to the registrant organisation can point to a sale, a merger or simply an update of company details. Registrars are the companies accredited to sell and manage domain names, and the sponsoring registrar is the one currently responsible for this name.
Whois Data Center has 6 historical WHOIS snapshots for STEINMETZCYMBALS.COM. The most recent capture is from September 5, 2017. Buyers often review the history of a domain before purchasing it, to see past owners and registrars. Each snapshot is a dated copy of the public WHOIS record as it looked when it was collected. 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. Snapshots are collected over time, so the gaps between them depend on how often the record was checked.
In the period from April 30, 2016 to September 5, 2017, 25 fields of the record were modified. Status flags were updated: renewPeriod was added. The expiry date moved from April 4, 2017 to April 5, 2018, which shows the domain was renewed. Each change listed here can be checked against the original snapshots further down the page.
WHOIS Record