Whois history

how come whois history changes by itself

[followgreg]

Hi,

I have a domain with a famous "cow" registrar, this domain is 1.5 years old and already have 50 records in whois history.

the problem is that records seem to pile up while I don't even login the registrar admin panel!

How is that possible, how can I see what is modified in my whois?

Thanks

[davezan]

Questions:

1. Do you mean the domain's WHOIS keeps changing at certain times without you doing anything?

2. Are you the only contact listed for the domain?

[webdoctor]

whois history

AFAIK there is no "official" WHOIS history.

There may be third-party companies offering this a WHOIS history service, but what you get from them depends how frequently they query the WHOIS for any given domain, and what they define as a change in the WHOIS data...

I've often registered a domain using my ISPs default settings, but within two minutes I've modified the owner, tech, and admin contacts. Want to bet that a third-party WHOIS picks all this up? I doubt it. Most of the world can't even resolve the domain that early in the registration process...

[gpmgroup]

One Third Party WHOIS provider counts everytime someone accesses their database as WHOIS "history". So if the number increments by 1 everytime you check, possibly the only new information stored in the "history" is your IP address and maybe a timestamp ;)

[followgreg]

Hope you guys are right, it seems yes that each time I check my own domain I get an additional history hit....weird.
I am the only one with access to the registrar info.