Domain Age Checker

Paste up to 20 domains and see exactly how old each one is: the date it was registered, its precise age in years, months and days, when the current registration expires, and the registrar that manages it. The dates come from the public RDAP directory — the official registry record behind WHOIS — so they are the same dates any registrar would show you. The check is free, needs no sign-up, and results are cached for up to 24 hours.

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Assumptions: Registration dates, expiry dates and registrar names come from the public RDAP directory and are cached for up to 24 hours. Registries that do not publish RDAP records — many country-code domains among them — show — instead of a date. The age shown is the age of the domain's current registration: if a domain lapsed and was registered again, its registration date is the newer one.

How it works

Every domain's registration is recorded by its registry, and the RDAP directory (the modern successor to WHOIS) publishes the key facts: when the domain was registered, when the current registration period expires, and which registrar manages it. This checker asks RDAP for each domain on your list, works out the age from the registration date to today, and shows one row per domain in the order you pasted, so the Age column can be copied straight into a spreadsheet next to your own list. One honest caveat: the registration date belongs to the domain's current registration. If a domain expired in the past and was registered again, its clock restarted — the age shown is the age of the current registration, not of the very first one ever made. Domain age is also widely misunderstood: an old domain is not automatically a trustworthy or high-ranking one, and a brand-new domain is not a problem — what a site publishes and who links to it matter far more than the birthday on its registration. Finally, some registries do not publish RDAP records at all — many country-code domains, .pk among them — so for those domains the dates do not exist in the directory and the row shows — rather than a guess.

Frequently asked questions

What is domain age?

Domain age is the time since a domain's current registration began — the gap between its registration date in the registry record and today. This checker shows it precisely: years and months for older domains, months and days for young ones, because 'about a year old' is not much use when you are comparing an 11-month-old domain with a 13-month-old one.

Does an older domain rank better on Google?

Not by itself. Google has said repeatedly that domain age is at most a negligible signal, and that a new site with strong content can outrank an old one. Older domains often look stronger because established sites have had years to earn content and links, not because the registration date itself earns positions. Treat age as background context — useful when vetting a domain to buy or a site to get a link from — never as a ranking guarantee.

Why does a domain show — instead of its dates?

Its registry does not publish an RDAP record. RDAP is the directory that replaced WHOIS, but adoption is uneven: many country-code registries (for example .pk) publish nothing there, and an occasional lookup simply fails. When there is no record, this checker shows — rather than estimating a date it cannot know.

The age looks wrong — the site has existed much longer. Why?

Probably because the domain lapsed or changed hands. The registry date is the start of the current registration: if a domain expired and was registered again — even by the same owner after a gap, or by a new owner — the date resets to the new registration. A website can also move onto a recently registered domain, or keep publishing on one registered long ago; this checker reports the domain's registration, not the website's history.

Why can I only check 20 domains at a time?

Twenty keeps each run fast and keeps the registry lookups within fair-use limits. If you have a longer list, run the checker again with the next batch — there is no daily cap on runs, and domains you checked recently come back instantly from the cache.

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