Find out exactly how old any domain is — to the day. Enter a domain and see its registration date, precise age, registrar, last update and expiry, taken directly from the registry record. Free, no signup.
The registration date comes from RDAP, the Registration Data Access Protocol, which is the structured successor to WHOIS and is now supported by every generic top-level domain registry. RDAP returns machine-readable JSON rather than the free-form text WHOIS produced, which means dates arrive unambiguous rather than needing to be parsed out of prose.
This is the registry own record. It is not an estimate, an archive crawl date, or a guess based on when a site first appeared in search results.
Age is one of very few trust signals that is genuinely expensive to fake. Almost everything else about a website can be manufactured in an afternoon: a professional design, a valid certificate, plausible copy, even reviews. A ten-year registration history cannot be. It requires ten years.
That asymmetry is why fraudulent and phishing sites are so often only days or weeks old. It is also why age alone proves very little in the other direction — a domain can be old and still be used badly, and expired domains with history are routinely bought precisely for their age.
It tells you when the domain was first registered. It does not tell you when the current site launched, when the business was founded, or whether the domain has changed hands. A domain can sit parked for years before anything is published on it. Ownership can transfer without the creation date moving at all.
Read it as the age of the domain, not the age of the organisation behind it.
Not every registry publishes creation dates. A number of country-code registries withhold the field entirely, and some records are redacted under GDPR. Where the registry does not provide a date, this tool says so rather than substituting one from another source — an inferred date presented as a registry fact would be worse than no date at all.
The last updated date reflects the most recent change to the registration record: a nameserver change, a registrar transfer, a contact update. It moves far more often than most people expect and rarely indicates anything by itself.
The expiry date is when the current registration lapses unless renewed. Most owners renew automatically, so an approaching expiry is not usually a warning sign. A domain expiring within days that also lacks every other trust signal is worth a second look.
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