# See what happened to your domains

> The Domain lifecycle report shows what happened to your domains in a month, quarter or year you choose — registrations, renewals, transfers in and out…

Source: https://infranest.io/docs/domain-history-report
Last updated: 2026-09-06

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The Domain lifecycle report shows what happened to your domains over a month, quarter or year you pick — registrations, renewals, transfers in and out, expiries and deletions. It's for anyone who needs to check or report on domain activity over time, not just see what's active right now.

## Overview
- Shows counts per event type for the period you choose: registered, renewed, transferred in, transferred out.
- Includes a chart of when events happened, by day or by month.
- Lists every event as a row, with date, domain, what happened, which registrar, and the amount where there was one.

## Why this isn't just a filter on the Domains list

Your Domains list shows what you have right now. A domain you registered in January and transferred away in March won't be there any more — so filtering that list by date would quietly leave it out, and you'd have no way of knowing.

This report reads a separate record that keeps events even after the domain itself is gone. That's what lets it honestly answer a question like "what did I register in January."

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## Check how an event was recorded

1. Open the report and find the event you want to check.
2. Look at the **Recorded** column to see how InfraNest knows about it:
   - **Registrar** — they told us directly, usually by webhook.
   - **Detected** — we worked it out. For example, a domain that stops appearing in your registrar's list for two syncs running is treated as gone.
   - **By you** — you did it here in InfraNest.

> [!NOTE]
> A detected departure is our best reading of what happened — not a confirmed statement from the registrar. Keep that in mind if you're relying on it for something formal.

## Read the amounts

1. Check the amount column for renewals, registrations and transfers — it shows what they cost, where InfraNest has that information.
2. For deletions and expiries, expect a dash instead of a figure. These cost nothing, and showing €0.00 would look like a measured value rather than genuinely nothing.

## Choose a period

1. Pick the month, quarter or year you want to look at.
2. If you pick a period before InfraNest started keeping this record, the report tells you so and names the date it starts from.

> [!NOTE]
> An empty period like this is empty for everyone, not just you — your filters haven't hidden anything. Domains that had already left before the record started can't be recovered; their history only ever existed in the audit log, which is cleared on a schedule.

## Filter by tag

1. Apply a **Tags** filter to narrow the report to domains with a particular tag.
2. Keep in mind that tags live on the domain, not on the event. If a domain has since been removed entirely, its tags went with it — so any of its events can't be matched by a tag filter.
3. The report tells you how many events are affected this way, rather than quietly leaving them out.

## Export the report

1. Set the period and any filters you want.
2. Select **Export CSV** to download the events for that period as filtered.

> [!TIP]
> Every export is recorded in your Audit Log, so you can always confirm who pulled a report and when.