How old is a domain? This free domain age checker reads the public registration record for any domain and shows when it was registered, how old it is today, when the registration expires, when the record last changed, and which registrar manages it.
Source: the registry’s public RDAP record (dates in UTC). Age counts from the current registration, so a dropped and re-registered domain starts again from zero. See this domain’s estimated worth
Lookups are free and need no login. Results are cached for a week, and each connection can run up to 15 fresh lookups every 10 minutes so the registries we query aren’t overloaded.
The checker uses RDAP (the Registration Data Access Protocol), the structured successor to WHOIS that ICANN requires for generic top-level domains such as .com, .net and .org. We query the public rdap.org bootstrap service, which forwards the request to the registry responsible for the domain’s extension, and read the registration, expiration and last-changed events from its answer. Nothing is estimated: if the registry doesn’t publish a date, the checker says so instead of guessing.
Domain age is one of the intrinsic factors in the website worth checker: an older registration adds a small amount of value on top of the traffic-based estimate. You can see how it fits with traffic, technical quality and content in how we estimate website worth, or compare established sites in the most valuable websites rankings.
Enter the domain in the checker above. It reads the registry's public RDAP record and shows the registration date, the age in years, months and days, the expiry date and the registrar. It is free and needs no login.
No. Domain age counts from the current registration of the name. A website may have launched later than the registration, and if the domain lapsed and was registered again, the age restarts even though the name was used before.
Some country-code registries do not publish registration dates through RDAP, and unregistered domains have no record at all. In those cases we show a message instead of an estimated date.
Not directly. Google has said it does not rank sites higher just because their domain is old. Older sites often rank well because they have had more time to earn links and build content.
Each lookup is fetched live from the registry the first time and then cached for up to seven days, so very recent changes such as a renewal can take a few days to appear.
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