How old is that domain?
Look up a domain's registration date, age, registrar, status and nameservers straight from the registry over RDAP. Free, no signup, no API key.
- Registration date and exact age from the authoritative registry
- Registrar, domain status codes and nameservers
- RDAP, the structured successor to WHOIS — no key, no scraping
Free, no signup, no rate limit. Nothing you check is stored.
How to use the domain age checker
Enter a domain
Works on any registered domain, yours or a competitor's. No account and no API key.
Read the registration date
This is the first registration on record, taken from the registry's own RDAP response rather than a scraped WHOIS page.
Compare against expectations
A domain registered last month will not rank like one registered a decade ago, whatever the content quality.
Check the expiry
A domain renewed years ahead signals a business that intends to still be there. One expiring in weeks is worth noticing on a supplier.
How much domain age actually matters
Age is not a ranking factor in itself — Google has said so repeatedly, and a fifteen-year-old parked domain ranks for nothing. What correlates with age is everything age gives time for: links accumulated, content published, a crawl history, mentions on other sites. A new domain is not penalised; it simply has none of those yet. The practical consequence is patience. A site launched this month competing against sites launched in 2015 is behind on evidence, not on merit, and the gap closes with published work rather than technical changes.
Where this data comes from
RDAP, the registry protocol that replaced WHOIS. It is free, keyless, structured, and comes from the registry that holds the record rather than a third party's cached copy. Some registries redact dates for privacy, particularly for domains registered by individuals in the EU, and country-code domains vary in what they publish. When a date is missing here it is because the registry does not publish it, not because we could not find it.
Questions about this tool
- Does domain age affect SEO?
- Less than commonly claimed. Google has said repeatedly that age itself is not a ranking factor. What correlates is what an older domain usually has — accumulated links, history and trust. A ten-year-old domain with no links doesn't outrank a one-year-old with a real reputation.
- Where does this data come from?
- RDAP, the IETF's structured replacement for WHOIS, queried through the rdap.org bootstrap resolver which routes to the authoritative registry for the TLD. It's the registry's own record, not a cached copy.
- Why do some domains return nothing?
- Not every registry publishes RDAP yet — several country-code TLDs still only offer WHOIS. When that happens this tool says so rather than estimating an age, because a guessed registration date is worse than no answer.
- What's the difference between RDAP and WHOIS?
- WHOIS returns free-form text that varies by registry and has to be scraped. RDAP returns structured JSON over HTTPS with a standard schema. Same underlying records, far more reliable to read.
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