Their registrar is and was epik.com, starting in 1997 according to whois records.
I can't find an obvious link between godaddy and epik (though one may exist).
Their current DNS service is provided by ... AWS :)
I'm not convinced that the quote from godaddy is technically informative here, though using the word "registrar" would seem to be more indicative of something other than hosting.
> I guess "Creation Date" refers to the original registration of the domain anywhere rather than with the current registrar.
Correct. Even more interestingly if you backorder a domain name owned by another person and that domain name expires, the creation date reflected in the WHOIS record once you obtain it will be the previous owner's creation date, not the date you obtained the domain. I think this behavior varies by registrar but that is how it seems to function on GoDaddy.
Transfers between registrars do not usually reset the "Creation Date". Actually the creation date field is not correct anymore for most domain names. Some registrars just show a fixed date such as 1985-01-01.
I can't find an obvious link between godaddy and epik (though one may exist).
Their current DNS service is provided by ... AWS :)
I'm not convinced that the quote from godaddy is technically informative here, though using the word "registrar" would seem to be more indicative of something other than hosting.