Find out exactly how old any domain is — registration date, age, expiry and registrar, straight from the registry. Check one site, or run a bulk domain age check on up to 20 at once. No signup, no credits, no WHOIS captcha.
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Domain age is simply how long a domain name has been registered, measured from the date the registry first created the record. It is one of the few facts about a website that cannot be faked, bought overnight, or inflated with a tool — which is exactly why it is useful. A domain age check tells you whether the site you are about to link to, buy a placement on, or compete with has been around long enough to have earned anything at all.
To check the age of a single domain, paste it into the field above and hit check — you get the registration date and exact age in seconds. To check domain age for many sites at once, switch to bulk mode and paste up to 20 domains, one per line. This bulk domain age checker returns every date together and exports them to CSV, so you can screen a whole prospect list in one pass instead of running twenty separate WHOIS lookups.
Most free domain age tools scrape WHOIS text and parse it with regular expressions, which breaks the moment a registrar changes its output format. This one uses RDAP — the Registration Data Access Protocol, the structured JSON successor to WHOIS that IANA now requires registries to run. The creation date comes back as a typed field from the registry itself, so it is both authoritative and stable. No scraping, no captcha, no rate-limited WHOIS server in the middle.
Not on its own. Google has said plainly that the age of a domain is not itself a ranking signal. What actually helps an older site is everything it has accumulated along the way — backlinks, brand mentions, crawl history, and content that has had time to earn trust. Treat domain age as a proxy for opportunity rather than a score: it tells you how much history could be there, and your next job is to check whether it actually is.
Domain age earns its place in link vetting as a cheap first filter. A site pitching guest posts that was registered four months ago has had no time to build a real audience, whatever its Domain Rating says — and DR can be inflated far faster than a registration date can be back-dated. Run the domain age check first, and it will kill a surprising share of bad prospects before you spend anything on deeper analysis.
Age alone is not enough, though. Pair it with a Domain Rating check for link strength and a backlink profile check to see who is actually linking. An old domain with a thin profile is usually a name that sat parked for a decade — the date is real, the authority is not. That combination of checks is the same one we run before any site enters our own inventory; you can read how in how we vet sites.
A domain age checker is a tool that looks up when a domain name was first registered and works out how old it is today. You paste in a domain and it returns the registration date, the age in years and months, the expiry date, and the registrar. This one queries the domain registry directly over RDAP, so the creation date is the authoritative record rather than an estimate.
Paste the domain into the field above and press check — that is the whole process. To check domain age for several sites at once, switch to bulk mode, paste up to 20 domains one per line, and export the results to CSV. You do not need a WHOIS account or any login to check domain age with this tool.
From the domain registry itself, via RDAP — the Registration Data Access Protocol, which is the IANA-mandated successor to WHOIS. RDAP is the registries' own structured record, so the creation date you see here is the same one the registry publishes. It is not scraped from a third-party database and it is not an approximation.
Not directly. Google's John Mueller has said repeatedly that domain age on its own is not a ranking factor. What correlates with age is everything that accumulates over time — backlinks, brand signals, crawl history and content depth. So an older domain often ranks better, but because of what it has earned, not because of the date on its registration record. Buying an old domain does not inherit that advantage if the history behind it is thin.
It is a fast, free credibility filter. A site offering guest posts that was registered three months ago is a very different proposition to one with ten years of history, even if their Domain Rating happens to look similar. Registration date is one of the few signals that cannot be manufactured overnight, which is why it belongs in your vetting checklist alongside real organic traffic and a genuine backlink profile.
Yes. Switch to bulk mode and paste up to 20 domains, one per line, to check every registration date at once and export the results to CSV. It is the fastest way to screen a list of link prospects for suspiciously young domains without looking each one up by hand.
A few registries — most commonly some country-code TLDs — either do not publish a creation date over RDAP or do not run an RDAP service at all. In those cases the lookup returns what the registry does publish and tells you the date was unavailable, rather than guessing. Most gTLDs including .com, .net, .org and .io return a full record.
They are not the same thing. Domain age measures how long the name has been registered; a domain can sit parked and empty for years before anyone builds on it. If you need to know when a site actually started publishing, pair this with the Wayback Machine — the registration date tells you the earliest possible start, and the archive tells you the real one.
The registry record usually keeps the original creation date even through a change of owner, so the age shown here can overstate how long the current site has existed. If a domain shows fifteen years of age but has a thin backlink profile and no archive history, that gap is the tell — the name is old, the site on it is not.
Yes. No signup, no credit card, and no usage credits to run out of. There is a fair-use limit so the tool cannot be turned into an open WHOIS proxy, but ordinary checking — including bulk runs — will never hit it.
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