How do I check the age of a domain?
Enter a domain name or full website URL above. The checker finds the registered domain, reads the public registration record, and calculates the time since the registry's published creation date.
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Free domain age checker
Check how old a domain or website is. Get its registration date, expiration date, registrar, and nameservers from the public registry record.
What the domain age checker finds
The checker reads the registered domain's public RDAP data. It does not scrape the website or guess dates from page content.
- Registration and expiration dates
- The registry's creation date, the domain's exact age, and the published expiration date.
- Registrar and last update
- Which registrar manages the domain and when the registry record last changed.
- Nameservers and DNSSEC
- The domain's nameservers and whether the registry reports a signed DNSSEC delegation.
Domain age and website age questions
Learn what the dates mean, where they come from, and what they cannot prove.
Is domain age the same as website age?
No. Domain age measures the current domain registration. A website may have launched later, and a dropped domain may have existed before its current registration. There is no universal public record for the first date a website went live.
Where does the domain creation date come from?
The date comes from RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol) records that registries and registrars publish. RDAP replaced WHOIS at most registries and returns structured data instead of free text.
Does an older domain rank better in Google?
Not on its own. An older domain has had more time to earn links and mentions, but the registration date itself does not make a page rank.
Why is a creation or expiration date missing?
Registries do not all publish the same fields. Some domain extensions omit dates, return restricted records, or temporarily fail to answer. When that happens the checker says the date is not published instead of guessing.