Domaintools new change and a question about domain age

[zangief]

Domaintools now shows the drops but I could not understand a point and need help understanding.
I have a domain sexprague(.)com

It shows
ICANN Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.
Created: 2005-04-29
Registrar History: 3 registrars with 2 drops.

-What's the age of this domain ? (2 years old imo)
Does this means for example it was first registred 2002 than dropped 2003 and so on and last register date was 2005-04-29 , my theory is dropping clears the domain age.And this domain is 2 years old.(an archive.org page from 2003 makes me think like this.)

 

[AlienGG]

Just whatever the whois shows.

 

[unholy1]

my theory is dropping clears the domain age.

Not a theory but a known fact... the only time that doesn't happen is if it's a Netsol name that expires and goes into auction at Snapnames, the record creation date does not change after the name changes owners. Although I'm not sure if tis also happens to Expired Godaddy names that end up in TDNAM...

 

[dolansco]

Not a theory but a known fact... the only time that doesn't happen is if it's a Netsol name that expires and goes into auction at Snapnames, the record creation date does not change after the name changes owners. Although I'm not sure if tis also happens to Expired Godaddy names that end up in TDNAM...

it seems to happen on godaddy/tdnam also .