Domain Registrar Ownership History

Since 1995 domaintools has been tracking the whois history of millions of domains.

Domain registrar ownership history. The registration process is not complete until the domain name requested by you has been registered in your name with the appropriate. Type domain name below get history go loading. Domain history data is provided by. It consists of the list of the domain s past owners their address and contact information and other registration details as shown in whois records.

Do you want to know if certain domain name was registered before. Looking up a domain ownership history is as easy as entering the domain name in the box and click the lookup button. Domain tools is considered to be the most complete domain history database. However several companies had developed independent registrar services.

In addition to the function of domain name registry operator it was also the sole registrar for these domains. Forums domain name help how do you find the registrar ownership history of a domain name. Registrars check domain names when transferring ownership authorities check domain names when investigating criminal activity keep in mind having your personal information made available to the public can also increase your risk of becoming a victim of hackers spammers and data miners. Nsi operated the registries for the com net and org top level domains tlds.

It offers complete details what makes it the best domain name history checker. Is there a way to check. This is a tool is 100 free. Domain name registration data access protocol refers to the elements of a communications exchange queries and responses that make access to registration data possible.

Whois history allows domaintools members access to historical whois records. We track nameserver changes since 2002 for all com net org info biz and us domains. For several years i believed i owned a domain name that i have been paying a registrar for. It helps users to track domain ownership changes last ownership record and the entire domain ownership trial.

In 1996 one such company ivan pope s company netnames developed the concept of a. It disappeared from my account and now i question whether the registrar if ever held the domain or paid the tld and icann. Non logged in users will only get to see the overall statistics of the whois history such as the number of historical record found for the domain name the number of significant changes and the percentage of domain name. Regardless if a domain name is already registered whois net will not be able to register the domain or gain possession of the registration from the current registrar without the permission of the current owner.

Until 1999 network solutions inc.