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Domain Age Checker
See how old any domain is: the date it was registered, its exact age, when it expires, and who its registrar is — read straight from the public registry record, never estimated. For a website, that date is usually where its age starts; how to tell how old a website is covers the rest.
A bare domain, a subdomain or a full URL all work — we look up the registered domain.
What the domain age checker reads
Every domain has a registration record kept by the registry that runs its ending — Verisign for .com, Nominet for .uk, and so on. The checker asks that registry through RDAP, the structured successor to WHOIS, and falls back to the official WHOIS server for the endings that have no RDAP service yet.
From that record it shows the creation date and the exact age in years, months and days, the expiration date, the date the record last changed, the registrar, whether the delegation is signed with DNSSEC, and the nameservers. A field the registry does not publish says “Not published” rather than a guess. The Domain Expiration Checker runs the same lookup and leads with the expiration date instead.
Domain age is not what this site ranks by. Every site on the ranking is ordered by its Ahrefs Domain Rating alone, which the DR checker looks up for any domain. Paying never changes a rank, and neither does a domain’s age.
How to tell how old a website is
A website has no registration record of its own. The nearest public one is its domain’s: a site cannot have been live at an address before that address was registered, so the creation date above is usually the earliest it could have started there.
The site itself is often younger. Domains are registered months or years before anything is published on them. It can also be older than the date suggests: a project that moved to a new domain keeps its history while the new registration starts at zero, and so does a domain that lapsed and was registered again.
For when a site actually went up, look the address up in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Its earliest capture shows the site was online by that date; the archive may simply have found it late. The registration date and the first capture bracket a website’s age between them.
Domain age questions
How do I check the age of a domain?
Type a domain or paste any URL from the site. The checker reduces it to the registered domain — blog.example.co.uk becomes example.co.uk — reads that domain's public registration record, and counts the years, months and days since the registry's creation date.
Where does the registration date come from?
From RDAP, the registries' own structured lookup service. For domain endings without an RDAP service, the checker asks the official WHOIS server IANA lists for that ending instead. It never guesses a date from the website's content or an archive.
Is domain age the same as website age?
No. Domain age is the age of the current registration. A site may have launched years after its domain was registered, and a domain that expired and was registered again starts counting from the new registration.
How can I tell when a website was created?
Start with the domain's registration date: a site usually cannot have been live at that address before it, unless the domain lapsed and was registered again. Then look up the address in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Its earliest capture shows the site was online by that date. In most cases the website went up somewhere between the two.
Does it show when a domain expires?
Yes. Every result shows the expiration date the registry publishes, next to the registrar the domain is renewed through and the date its record last changed. The Domain Expiration Checker runs the same lookup and leads with that date and the days left.
Why can't some domains be checked?
Some registries do not publish a creation date at all — .de, .eu and .at are common examples — and some publish no public lookup the checker can use. When that happens you get a clear message instead of an estimate.
Does an older domain rank higher?
Not on its own. Google has said domain age by itself is not a ranking factor, and it plays no part here either: domainrating.lol ranks sites only by their Ahrefs Domain Rating. An older domain has simply had more time to earn the links that rating measures.