If a domain is taken over can’t they determine who initiated/created/owned it?
“If a domain is taken over can’t they determine who initiated/created/owned it?”
Domain in question: avsvmcloud[.]com
The brackets, there, prevent a valid link action for the domain in question. If you want a successful link action in the following, then remove those brackets.
To learn about a domain, the following 2 websites provide a lot of information:
https://www.wmtips.com/tools/info/avsvmcloud[.]com
https://dnslytics.com/domain/avsvmcloud[.]com
At that last website, https://dnslytics.com/
In the left side region of your Internet browser window, notice under “Network information” . . . the ASN number.
That is the Autonomous System number. The ASN is assigned (by the Regional Internet Registry) to the organization that has the IP address for the domain in question. (Regional Internet Registries: https://www.nro.net/about/rirs/)
“[T]he organization” that has the IP address, is typically also the host of a multitude of domains (and other IP addresses) under its tent.
At the WebMaster Tips & Tools website (https://www.wmtips.com), you will find a lot of info, such as the WHOIS data. Scroll down, searching for “WHOIS” - there is a Domain WHOIS and an IP WHOIS.
Now, if you really want to know all that info from the 2 sources cited above, BE FOREWARNED:
The “authorites” are monitoring every query re the domain in question.
I would avoid searching at those 2 sources, on the domain in question.
Meanwhile, the history of the domain in question, is typically recorded; and “they” (probably by now, every government in the world, plus 10’s of thousands of affected Internet-connected organizations) will have the history.