Domain Age Checker

Check the registration year of any domain. Free, no signup, results in < 1 second.

What 'domain age' actually means

The age of a domain is the number of years since it was first registered with the registry, regardless of how many times the registrant changed. Aged domains carry SEO signals (longer crawl history, accumulated backlinks, more Wayback snapshots) that fresh registrations cannot match. Buyers acquiring expired domains use age + Wayback depth to estimate residual authority.

This tool reads live WHOIS / RDAP data for any domain and shows the registration year. For domains we already track in our expired-domains list, we also show Wayback archive count and the upcoming public-release date if the domain is mid-drop.