How old is that domain, really?

WHOIS output used to be free-form text that every registry formatted differently. RDAP replaced it with structured JSON, so we can read it reliably. We send your domain to the RDAP bootstrap service, which forwards the request to whichever registry runs that extension, and report what comes back.

1. 1Exact age

   Years, months and days since the registration event, plus the total in days.

2. 2Key dates

   Registration, expiry, the last change to the record, and when the registry last refreshed its data.

3. 3Registrar

   The company the domain is registered through, its IANA ID, website and abuse contact.

4. 4Status flags

   Every EPP status code, explained in plain English, with locks and warning states marked.

5. 5Nameservers and DNSSEC

   Where the domain's DNS is hosted, and whether the delegation is signed.

6. 6Compare

   Up to five domains side by side, handy for sizing up competitors or a domain you're buying.

Subdomains are reduced to the registrable domain first, so blog.example.co.uk is looked up as example.co.uk.

Search engines don't reward birthdays. What an old domain usually has is history: years of links, mentions and content. A new domain can outrank an old one with better pages; an old domain with a spammy past can drag on a fresh site.

Buying a domain? Check the registration date against its archive. If the record says 2008 but the content only starts last year, the domain probably expired and was re-registered, and its previous life may come with baggage. Our website history tool shows what was there before.

Running your own? Watch the expiry date and the locks. A domain without clientTransferProhibited is easier to hijack, and a lapsed renewal can take your site, email and every link to it offline at once. Turn on auto-renew and the registrar lock.

For AI search, longevity helps indirectly. Assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity lean on sources that are widely cited and consistently described across the web, which takes time to build. Check how consistently your brand is described with the brand entity checker.