Check how old a domain is and when it expires. Uses WHOIS/RDAP registration data.
Enter a domain to check when it was registered and when it expires
Every domain has a registration date, set by its registry on the day the domain is registered. Enter the domain above and this tool reads that date from RDAP, the registration data service that replaces WHOIS, and shows it with the age of the domain. In a WHOIS record the same date is called the Creation Date.
The date is when the current registration began. Renewing the domain, however often, or moving it to another registrar does not change it. A domain that expired, was deleted and was registered again starts over with a new date, so an old name can show a recent date. The Updated date is the last change to the record (a renewal, new name servers, a new registrar), not the registration.
Some country-code registries do not publish registration dates; the tool then shows the date as unavailable. The age of a domain is not the age of its website: a site may have gone live years after the domain was registered, or moved to a domain bought long before.
Domain age is calculated from the registration date stored in RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol) - the modern replacement for WHOIS. The registration date reflects when the domain was first registered, not when it was last renewed. Some country-code TLDs restrict access to registration dates, in which case the tool will report the data as unavailable. Results are cached for 1 hour.
Enter any domain name and click Check. The tool queries RDAP (the registry's own RDAP server, or the public rdap.org service when the registry is not listed) to return the first registration date, current expiry date, registrar, and the number of days remaining until expiry. For .co, .us and .jp, which have no RDAP, VLANlab's server reads the expiry date from the registry's WHOIS server instead, and the registration date is not available. You can also enter a full URL - the hostname is extracted automatically.
The expiry date is the current registration period end. Domains do not necessarily become available at expiry - registrars provide grace and redemption periods. Domain age is commonly used to assess trust: newly registered domains (under 6 months) are more likely to be phishing or spam infrastructure. Older domains with continuous registration history carry more authority in search rankings.