sternsleuth.com

According to its WHOIS record, STERNSLEUTH.COM was created on August 16, 2023 and expires on August 16, 2026. That makes the domain about 3 years old. It is registered through DNS Africa Ltd (IANA ID 2287) and is past its expiry date. The public WHOIS shows the registrant organisation as Cyber Development (Pty) Ltd, based in Netherlands. 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. Changes to the registrant organisation can point to a sale, a merger or simply an update of company details. 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. 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. The creation date shows when the name was first registered, while the expiry date shows how long the current registration has been paid for.

Whois Data Center has 2 historical WHOIS snapshots for STERNSLEUTH.COM. They run from August 17, 2023 to April 10, 2026. Together they cover about 2 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. These records help track changes in registration details, ownership signals and DNS over 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.

In the period from August 17, 2023 to April 10, 2026, 34 fields of the record were modified. Status flags were updated: ok was removed. The registrant organisation became visible in the public record. The expiry date moved from August 16, 2024 to August 16, 2026, which shows the domain was renewed. Each change listed here can be checked against the original snapshots further down the page.