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Domain Age Checker
Got a link, offer or cold email from a site you have never heard of? Paste the domain and see how old it is, when it was registered and when it expires — a plain-English trust read, not raw WHOIS output.
- ⏱ Age in years, months, days
- 📅 Registration & expiry dates
- 🧭 Established / Moderate / New verdict
Check a domain
We query the registry over RDAP — the domain's own source of truth, no WHOIS scraping and no account needed.
How it works
Step 1
You paste anything
A full URL, a www host or just the name — the scheme, path, query and subdomains are stripped in your browser before anything is sent.
Step 2
We ask the registry
The domain is looked up over RDAP, the official registry protocol that replaced WHOIS, capped at 20 seconds so the page never hangs.
Step 3
Age gets calculated
Registration date to today in years, months and days — or as total days/months if you prefer, with the timeline drawn to scale.
Step 4
You read the verdict
Established (10y+), Moderate (1–10y) or New (<1y) plus the raw registrar, status flags and nameservers if you want them.
Step 5
Nothing is stored
No account, no cookies and no logging of what you looked up — the result page is rendered per request and discarded.
Step 6
Age is one signal
A 20-year-old domain can still host a scam. Pair the age with spelling, payment methods and pressure tactics before you trust it.
What the verdict means
Registered 10+ years ago. Long-lived domains are expensive to abandon, so scams are less common — but always confirm the site matches the brand it claims.
1 to 10 years old. Typical for genuine small businesses and side projects, so read the registrar and status flags too.
Registered under a year ago. Not automatically bad, but combine it with an unexpected payment request or a lookalike name and treat it as a red flag.
Red flags worth more than age alone
- A brand name with one added or swapped character.
- Client-hold or pending-delete statuses — the domain may be about to vanish.
- Only one nameserver, or nameservers at a free host nobody uses.
- Payment asked for by gift card, crypto or bank transfer.
What RDAP cannot tell you
- Whether the site behind the domain is honest, safe to open or malware-free.
- Who is really behind it — privacy proxies hide registrant details, and GDPR redaction hides the rest.
- Traffic, popularity or reviews. A brand-new domain can rank; an old one can be abandoned.
- Some ccTLD registries publish no RDAP at all — then we say so instead of guessing.
FAQ
What counts as the "age" of a domain?
Time since the current registration was created (or since the current registrant took it over, which resets the clock). It is the date the registry publishes, measured to today — not how long the website has existed.
Where does the data come from?
Directly from the registry over RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol), the IETF standard successor to WHOIS. No scraped WHOIS dumps and no third-party reputation score — just the registry record.
Why do some dates say "not published"?
Registries are only required to publish RDAP data, not every field. When a creation or expiry date is missing we print that instead of inventing a number — status flags and registrar still show.
Is a domain's age a trust score?
No. It is one signal among several. Old domains get compromised and newly registered domains get used by real businesses every day — use the age with the rest of the evidence.
Do you store the domains I check?
No. The lookup happens per request, the result is rendered and returned, and nothing is written to a database or log of your searches.
Can I check an international domain like münchen.de?
Yes. Your browser converts it to punycode (xn--mnchen-3ya.de) automatically, and we look up those characters — so paste it however you normally write it.