Renewal History
Every time a domain’s expiry date jumped forward, someone paid to keep it. See each renewal since 2007, how many years were paid for at once, how early or late it came, and whether the domain nearly lapsed.
Example: the.com — renewed 11 times since 2007, once for 9 years at a stretch.
How it works
The ledger compares WHOIS and RDAP snapshots of a domain taken over nearly twenty years. A forward jump in the registry’s expiry date is a renewal, and the size of the jump is the number of years paid for. The snapshots either side of the jump bound when it happened, so the ledger can say whether it came months early, inside the grace period, or after the domain had already expired.
Registry status codes seen at the time add the rest: an explicit renewal, the registry’s automatic renewal, a redemption period or pending delete (a near-death), or the domain being dropped and registered again by someone new.