Domain age checker — how old is a domain and when does it expire?
Type any domain to see its age in years, months and days, its creation and expiry date with a countdown, the registrar, nameservers, IP address and the company hosting it. Read live from the registry. Free, no sign-up.
Many domains? Use the bulk domain age checker — up to 20 at once.
Check the age of 20 domains at once
Paste a list of domains, one per line or separated by commas. You get one table with each domain's age, creation date, expiry date, days left and registrar, and can download it as CSV.
What the domain age checker tells you
One lookup answers the questions people ask before they buy from a website, buy a domain, or renew their own: how old is it, when does it run out, and who is behind it technically.
Domain age
Years, months and days since the domain was first registered, worked out from the creation date in the registry's record. A shop that claims "20 years in business" on a domain registered last month is worth a second look.
Creation and expiry date
The exact date the registration began and the date it runs out, with a countdown in days. Use it as a domain expiry checker for your own names so a missed renewal never takes your site offline.
Registrar
The company the domain is registered through, such as GoDaddy, BigRock or HostKarle. That is where renewals, transfers and nameserver changes happen.
Nameservers
The servers that answer DNS for the domain. They usually name the DNS provider or web host, for example Cloudflare or a registrar's parking service.
IP address (A record)
The server address the domain points to right now. No A record means the domain has no website, which is common for parked or newly registered names.
Hosting provider
The network that owns that IP address, found from its ASN (autonomous system number). It is usually the web host or the cloud the host rents from, such as Amazon, Google or a data centre in India.
Why domain age and expiry dates matter
Age tells you how long a name has been around. The expiry date tells you how long it will stay. Both come from the same public registry record.
Checking a website before you trust it
Fake shops, job offers and investment sites are usually built on domains registered days or weeks earlier, because scammers throw them away once they are reported. A domain age of a few weeks is not proof of fraud — every real business starts with a new domain — but combined with prices that are too good, no GST number and only a WhatsApp contact, it is a strong warning. A domain that has been renewed for ten years is a better sign.
Buying a used or expired domain
People buy aged domains hoping for search traffic. Check the creation date here, then look at the site's history on the Wayback Machine. If the domain expired and was deleted at some point, the registry gives it a new creation date and the age shown here restarts from then. Google has said age alone does not help rankings; links and history do, and a spammy history can hurt.
A domain expiry check for your own names
When a domain expires, the website and every email address on it stop working, often on the same day. Most registries then give a grace period of around 30 days to renew at the normal price, followed by a redemption period where getting it back costs much more, and finally the name is released for anyone to register. Run your domains through the bulk checker once in a while and renew anything with less than 60 days left. At HostKarle you can turn on auto-renew from the client area.
Where the data comes from
We ask IANA which RDAP server runs each extension and read the domain's record from that registry directly — Verisign for .com and .net, NIXI for .in and .co.in, and so on. Nameservers and the A record come from live DNS, and the hosting provider from the IP address's ASN. Registry answers are kept for 10 minutes, so a renewal can take a few minutes to show here.
Domain prices per year, GST extra. Every extension and its renewal price.
Frequently asked questions
Still unsure? Message us on WhatsApp at +91 94343 44325, or open a ticket from your client area.
What is domain age?
Domain age is the time since a domain name was first registered, counted from the creation date in the registry's record. A domain registered on 1 January 2015 is a little under 12 years old in 2026. The age stays with the name as long as it keeps being renewed, even if it changes hands or moves to another registrar.
How do I check the age of a domain?
Type the domain into the domain age checker above. It reads the creation date straight from the registry over RDAP (the modern WHOIS) and works out the age in years, months and days. You also get the expiry date, a countdown to it, the registrar, the nameservers, the IP address the domain points to and the company that runs that IP.
How do I check a domain's expiry date?
The same lookup shows it. The expiry date comes from the registry, so it is the real date the registration runs out, not a guess. Below the date you see how many days are left. If the domain is yours and the countdown is under 30 days, renew now: an expired domain stops your website and email the same day.
Can I check the age of many domains at once?
Yes. Use the bulk domain age checker on this page: paste up to 20 domains, one per line, and you get a table with each domain's age, creation date, expiry date, days left and registrar. You can download the table as a CSV file.
Does domain age help SEO?
Not directly. Google has said that domain age by itself is not a ranking factor. What helps is what usually comes with age: years of content, links earned from other sites and a clean history. An old domain with a spammy past can do worse than a new one. Age is still a useful trust signal when you are checking a supplier, a shop or an email before you pay.
Why does the age differ from what the owner says?
The tool counts from the date the current registration began. If a domain was allowed to expire, was deleted and was then registered again by someone else, the registry starts a new creation date and the age resets. The website may also be older or younger than the domain itself.
Why is no creation date shown for some domains?
A few registries do not publish the creation date in their public record, and a few country extensions have no RDAP service at all. In those cases we say so instead of guessing. For .com, .net, .org, .in, .co.in and most new extensions the date is always available.
Does the checker work for .in and .co.in domains?
Yes. .in, .co.in and the other Indian extensions are run by NIXI, which publishes an RDAP service, so you get the real creation date, expiry date and registrar. If NIXI's RDAP does not answer, we fall back to its WHOIS server for the same data.
Is the domain age checker free?
Yes, with no sign-up. To stop automated scraping, each visitor can run about 40 lookups in any 10 minutes; a bulk check counts one lookup per domain. If you hit the limit, wait a few minutes.
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