Domain Age & WHOIS Checker

How it works

What we check

• Creation date — The date the domain was first registered, taken from the WHOIS record. This is the anchor for everything else — domain age, history and how established the site is are all measured from here.
• Domain age — How long ago the domain was created, expressed in years and months. Older domains have had more time to earn trust, build a link history and establish a track record — which is why age is a common vetting signal.
• Expiry date — When the current registration lapses. A domain expiring soon is a risk for the owner — if it's not renewed it can drop and be re-registered by someone else, taking the site and email offline.
• Registrar — The company the domain is registered through. Useful for knowing where a domain is managed, and for spotting whether a competitor or partner uses a registrar you recognize.
• Domain identity — Confirms the exact domain the WHOIS record resolves to, so you're reading data for the registrable domain rather than a subdomain or a typo'd variant.
• Record availability — Some registries and privacy-protected domains return limited WHOIS data. We surface what's published and clearly mark anything the registry doesn't expose rather than guessing at it.

Common issues we catch

• Creation date shows as unknown — Some registries (and certain country-code domains) don't expose a creation date in public WHOIS, or return it in a format that can't be parsed reliably. When that happens we mark it unknown rather than show a wrong date.
• Brand-new domain used for outreach — A domain registered only weeks ago, sending you cold email or pitching a partnership, is a classic red flag. Scammers spin up fresh domains constantly. Age won't prove intent, but a domain with no history deserves extra scrutiny.
• Domain expiring soon — An expiry date just weeks away means the owner needs to renew or risk losing the domain. For your own domains this is the check that prevents the worst-case outage — a lapsed renewal that drops your site and email.
• Privacy protection hides registrant details — Most registrars now offer WHOIS privacy, which replaces the owner's name and contact info with the privacy service. The dates and registrar still show, but don't expect to learn who owns a privacy-protected domain from WHOIS alone.
• Recently re-registered (dropped) domain — A domain can look old by name but show a recent creation date because it lapsed and was re-registered by a new owner. The earlier history doesn't carry over cleanly — treat the current registration date as the real starting point.
• Reseller registrar masks the real one — The registrar shown may be a reseller or a wholesale provider rather than the brand you bought through. The data is accurate, it's just one layer removed from the retail name you might recognize.
• Age assumed to equal authority — An old creation date alone doesn't make a site trustworthy or strong in search — a domain can sit parked and unused for years. Age is one input; pair it with whether the site has actually been live and active over that time.

Where this matters

• Generic TLDs (.com, .net, .org) — These return full WHOIS data including creation, expiry and registrar in a consistent format, so age lookups are most reliable here. The vast majority of business domains fall into this group.
• Newer gTLDs (.io, .co, .app, etc.) — The wave of newer extensions generally exposes the same core fields. They're often younger by nature, so a recent creation date on a newer extension isn't unusual on its own.
• Country-code TLDs (.uk, .de, .ca, etc.) — Country domains vary widely — some publish full dates, others restrict WHOIS data for privacy reasons. We surface whatever the registry returns and mark missing fields clearly.
• Registrars — Whatever registrar a domain uses, the registration dates live in the same registry-level WHOIS record. That's why the creation date is consistent no matter where the domain was purchased.
• Privacy-protected domains — When WHOIS privacy is enabled, registrant identity is masked but the registration timeline and registrar are still visible — which is exactly what an age and vetting check needs.