Following up on this: Apparently my knowledge is out-of-date. WHOIS has been superceded by RDAP, and RDAP provides event data for registration and re-registrat

Following up on this: Apparently my knowledge is out-of-date. WHOIS has been superceded by RDAP, and RDAP provides event data for registration and re-registration. So even better! edit: it doesn't seem like registrars actually do re-registration, and many cctlds don't even use RDAP yet.