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title: "Free domain age checker with registration dates | SEO Skill"
description: "Check how old any domain is, for free. Get the registration date, expiry, registrar and name servers straight from the registry, and compare up to five domains on a timeline."
canonical: "https://seoskill.dev/tools/domain-age-checker"
language: "en"
---

# Domain age checker

Enter a domain to see when it was registered and how old it is, read live from the registry's own record.

### Registration timeline

The solid bar runs from registration to today. The faint part runs to the date the registration is paid until.

## Read the domain age result

The big number is the age of the current registration, in years and months. Under it, each domain gets its own record from the registry.

| Field | What it tells you |
| --- | --- |
| Registered | The day the current registration began. |
| Paid until | The date the registration runs out unless the owner renews it. |
| Last changed | The last time the record changed, such as a renewal or new name servers. |
| Transferred | The last move to a new registrar, when the registry reports one. |
| Registrar and name servers | Where the domain is registered and which DNS servers answer for it. |

Enter several domains and the timeline puts them side by side, so you can see at a glance which site has been around longest and which registrations run out soon.

## Where the dates come from

Each top-level domain is run by one registry, and the registry keeps the record for every domain under it. The checker reads IANA's [RDAP bootstrap file](https://data.iana.org/rdap/dns.json) to find the registry's server, then asks it directly. No third-party database sits in between, so the date is the registry's own.

RDAP is the standard that replaced WHOIS for generic top-level domains. Some country registries still do not offer it, and the checker says so rather than guessing. Personal details of the owner are usually withheld, so the result does not show who owns a domain.

## Domain age is not the age of the website

The registration date is when the current owner's registration began. If a domain lapsed and someone registered it again, the clock restarts. A domain can also be bought years before a site goes live on it. To see when a site started getting search traffic, the [website traffic checker](https://seoskill.dev/tools/website-traffic-checker) shows a year of estimated history.

## Does domain age matter for SEO?

Not by itself. Google has said that the age of a domain does not help it rank. Old domains often do well for other reasons: years of links from other sites, a large body of content and a name people search for. A new domain with better pages can and does outrank them.

Where age is useful is due diligence. Before you buy a domain, a link or a business, a long registration with the same registrar and steady name servers is a good sign. A recent registration on a name that claims a long history, or a recent transfer, is worth a question.

## Check a domain before you buy it

-   Look at the registration date and any recent transfer here.
-   See whether it gets search traffic with the [website traffic checker](https://seoskill.dev/tools/website-traffic-checker).
-   Check the strength of its links with the [Domain Rating checker](https://seoskill.dev/tools/domain-rating-checker).
-   Look for spam patterns with the [spam score checker](https://seoskill.dev/tools/spam-score-checker).

An expired domain with a big Domain Rating, no traffic and a spam score in the high band was usually used for link schemes. Its old links are unlikely to help a new site.

## Research a domain with your AI agent

SEO Skill has no domain age command, so this page is the place for the date. Your agent can do the rest of the check. With your own DataForSEO or Ahrefs key, [seo research](https://seoskill.dev/docs/research) lists the keywords a domain ranks for and the sites that link to it, each with a Domain Rating. Ask:

```
Show the keywords example.com ranks for and its referring domains, and tell me whether its links look natural
```

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