Domain Age & Expiry Checker
Find out how old any domain is and exactly when it expires. Type a domain and get its registration date, expiry date, registrar and nameservers in seconds.
Why check a domain's age?
Judging a website
Before you buy a guest post, an age check shows whether a site has years of history or was registered last month.
Spotting expiring domains
A domain that is about to expire can lose its rankings and links. The expiry date and the days left warn you early, before you pay for a link on that site.
Researching competitors
See how long a competitor has been around and who their registrar is, all from public records.
Frequently asked questions
It reads the public registration record of the domain from its registry through RDAP, the modern replacement for WHOIS. The record contains the date the domain was first registered, when it expires and when it was last changed. The age is the time between the registration date and today.
Enter the domain above. The result shows the expiry date and how many days are left, in green when there is plenty of time, amber under 90 days and red under 30 days. The date comes from the registry, so it is the date the current registration runs out, not the date the registrar plans to renew it.
Most registrars give the owner a grace period (often 0 to 45 days) to renew at the normal price. After that the domain usually enters a redemption period (around 30 days) where renewing costs extra, and then a short pending-delete stage before it is released for anyone to register. A site that loses its domain stops loading, and its links and rankings can disappear, which is why buyers check the expiry date before paying for a backlink on a site.
Not directly. Google has said that domain age by itself is not a ranking factor. In practice older domains tend to have more links, history and trust, so age is a useful clue when you compare sites, but a strong newer site can easily outperform a weak old one. Judge a site by its content, traffic and link profile too.
Not always. The date shows when the domain name was first registered. A site may have launched later, and a domain that expired and was registered again can show a newer date than its original history.
The registry returned no record for that name. Check the spelling, and remember that you should enter only the domain (example.com). If you enter a subdomain such as blog.example.com, we look up the registered domain behind it.
A few registries, mostly for country-code extensions, do not publish registration dates through RDAP or do not support RDAP at all. For those, the tool tells you instead of guessing.
They are lock flags set by the registrar or registry. "client transfer prohibited" means the domain cannot be moved to another registrar without unlocking it, which is normal and protects against hijacking. Other flags, such as "pending delete" or "redemption period", mean the domain has expired and is on its way to being released.