Domain Age Checker | Real Registration Date, Free

Check the real registration date and age of any domain from official registry records before you buy a link or a website. Dates come from the official domain registry over RDAP — the modern replacement for WHOIS. No signup, no API key.

Why domain age matters in link building

Age is not a ranking factor by itself, but it is one of the fastest ways to sanity-check a link seller. A site claiming strong authority metrics on a domain registered four months ago has either bought those metrics, spammed them into existence, or is reporting the history of a domain it re-registered after it expired. Age gives you the historical context that authority scores hide.

How to read the result

• Under 12 months — treat any high authority score as manufactured until proven otherwise.
• 1–2 years — usable in a mixed profile, not the backbone of a campaign.
• 2–5 years — enough history to judge on traffic and relevance.
• 5 years or more — established, but still check that the current site matches the domain’s history.

Registration date is not launch date

A domain can be registered, dropped, and picked up years later by someone else. That is the entire expired-domain PBN model: buy a domain with old links, rebuild an unrelated site on it, sell placements. If the registration date is old but the record was last changed recently, check the site’s history in the Wayback Machine before you pay for anything.

Where the data comes from

We query the registry’s RDAP service, the standardised successor to WHOIS. It returns the registration, last-changed and expiry events plus the registrar and registry status codes. A few country-code registries do not publish RDAP data or hide dates for privacy, in which case no age can be confirmed — that is a limitation of the registry, not an error.

Use it inside a full prospect check

Age is one signal of five. Pair it with a live crawl using the broken link checker, confirm the placement will actually pass value with the dofollow / nofollow checker, and confirm the page can be indexed at all with the Google index checker. If you would rather skip the vetting entirely, we vet every site for you.