Domain age, in short
Paste a domain and click Check age. The headline is how long the current registration has existed, in years, months, and days. The list under it shows the creation date, the day count, the update date, the expiration date, and the registrar. Email, phone, and street address are left out.
A domain age checker reads the creation date in the WHOIS record and counts forward to today. Use the tool above. The number is the age of this registration, not a ranking score and not Domain Rating.
You need this when a domain is new to you: a guest post, a vendor site, an expired name you might buy, or a site that showed up in search yesterday. The creation date answers “when did this registration start?” It does not answer “how strong are the backlinks?”
How to check a domain’s age
Three steps. One domain per check. The hostname is the only thing you submit.
Enter the registered domain
Type example.com, or paste a full URL. The checker keeps the hostname. It drops https://, a leading www, and anything after the slash. Check one domain at a time.
Click Check age
The checker reads the WHOIS record for that hostname and fills in the age.
Read the age and the dates
The headline is years, months, and days from the creation date, counted in UTC. Under it: the creation date, the day count, the update date, the expiration date, the registrar, and the name servers when the record includes them.
What the result lists
A field appears only when the record has something to put in it. A blank creation date does not get replaced with a guess.
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| Age | Years, months, and days from the creation date, in UTC |
| Days | The day count in the record when one is present. If it is missing, whole UTC days counted from the creation date, and the result says so |
| Created | The creation date, written as a calendar date in UTC |
| Updated | The last update date in the record, when one is present |
| Expires | The expiration date in the record. If it is before today, a note says the date is in the past and that the name is not necessarily free |
| Registrar | The registrar name. A normal http or https address on that field becomes a link |
| Organization and country | Shown only when the registrant block includes them |
| Name servers | Hostnames delegated for the domain, up to eight |
| Status | EPP status words from the record, such as clientTransferProhibited |
The Status row is the WHOIS status. The codes are registry locks, not a safety rating.
How the years, months, and days are counted
The headline uses the creation timestamp as a UTC calendar date and ignores the clock time. Counted on 22 October 2026, a creation date of 14 August 1995 prints as 31 years, 2 months, 8 days: 2026 minus 1995 is 31 years, October minus August is 2 months, and 22 minus 14 is 8 days.
If the creation day does not exist in a later month, the count uses the last day of that month. A 31 January creation reaches its one-month mark on 28 February, or on 29 February in a leap year. A 29 February creation reaches its next anniversary on 28 February when the year is not a leap year.
The day figure under the headline is separate. When the record includes a whole-day count, that integer is what the page shows. If it is missing, the page counts whole UTC days from the creation date and says so. Do not expect the day figure and a hand count of 365-day years to match the headline. Months in the headline are calendar months, not blocks of 30 days.
A dropped domain starts over
The age is the age of the registration in this record. If a name expires, drops, and someone registers it again, the registry publishes a new creation date. The checker then reports that newer date. It cannot see the previous owner or the first year the name existed.
An expiration date that has already passed is marked on the result. Treat it as “this recorded end date is behind us,” not as “the name is available today.” After the date, a registrar often keeps a grace period, and then a redemption period, before a stranger can register the name. This page does not time those periods and does not tell you the name is for sale.
Domain age is not Domain Rating
Age answers when the current registration started. Ahrefs Domain Rating answers how strong Ahrefs considers the backlink profile, on a 0 to 100 scale. An older registration has had more calendar time in which links could accumulate. The age number itself is not that score, and this page does not claim an older domain will rank higher.
Moz Domain Authority is a third metric, from a different index. This checker does not return it. When you want Domain Rating for a list of sites, use the bulk domain authority checker. When you want the registration date, stay on this page.
What the checker leaves out
The response to your browser does not include registrant email, phone, fax, or street address, even when the WHOIS record has them. Organization and country are shown only when those two fields are present and are not themselves an email or a web address.
The Status line is the WHOIS status. clientDeleteProhibited blocks deletion, clientTransferProhibited blocks a transfer, and clientUpdateProhibited blocks updates. A lock like that is normal on a domain someone intends to keep. It is not a safety rating. ICANN’s EPP status codes explain the rest of the list. A country-code registry can still omit the creation date. The result then says there is no creation date, instead of inventing an age. If the lookup returns no WHOIS record, the form says so and does not fill in dates. A name with letters outside basic Latin should be entered in a form the hostname check accepts, such as example.com. One check is one domain. Repeated checks from the same visitor are limited.
A young domain is not proof of a scam, and an old domain is not proof of a safe site. Age is one public date. It does not review the content, the certificate, or the mail setup. There is no account, and closing the tab does not leave a history of lookups on this site. The hostname was still sent for the lookup.
A related check
Registration age and backlink strength are easy to mix up because both show up in SEO spreadsheets. They stay on separate pages here.
- Bulk domain authority checker for Ahrefs Domain Rating on up to 100 domains. It does not return a creation date.
What to do next
Check the registered domain, not a blog subdomain and not a single article URL, unless that host is the name you actually care about. Read the creation date before you trust the headline. If the date is missing, the registry did not provide one. If you came here for a backlink score, switch to the Domain Rating checker instead of treating years as a substitute.
Domain age questions
How do I check how old a domain is?
Paste the domain into the box and click Check age. The page shows years, months, and days from the creation date, plus the created, updated, and expiration dates and the registrar when that record includes them.
Where does the domain age come from?
The age comes from the creation date in the WHOIS record. The headline counts calendar years, months, and days from that timestamp, in UTC, and ignores the clock time. The day figure is the day count in the record when one is present. If it is missing, the day figure is counted from the creation date instead.
Is domain age the same as Domain Authority?
No. This page reports how long the current registration has existed. Domain Authority is a Moz score, and this site does not show it. The bulk domain authority checker shows Ahrefs Domain Rating, which is a backlink-strength score, not an age.
What if the domain expired and someone registered it again?
The creation date in the current record is the start of the current registration. The age is not the first time that name was ever registered. A drop and a new registration reset the date the registry publishes.
Why is there no creation date?
Some registries do not publish one, so the age cannot be counted. A subdomain can also miss the date that belongs to the registered name. Try the name without the extra label, such as example.com instead of blog.example.com.
Are the domains stored?
The checker uses the domain to request the record and then returns the dates. It does not create an account or a saved history. Do not submit a hostname you are not willing to send for the lookup.
Is the domain age checker free?
Yes. It is free and it does not ask for an account. Each check is one domain. Repeated checks from the same visitor are limited so the lookup is not overwhelmed.