Domain Age Checker
Both of a domain's ages, right here: registration age from the registry and web age from its first archive capture — plus expiry and registrar.
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Two ages, two stories
A domain has a registration age — when it was first created, from WHOIS/RDAP — and a web age: when the Internet Archive first captured actual content on it. The gap between them is often the interesting part. A domain registered in 2009 whose first archived page is from last month was probably bought aged, not built.
This report shows both: the registry's creation date alongside the domain's first and most recent Wayback Machine snapshots and its year-by-year capture history.
Why age matters
For scam-spotting: most phishing and fake-shop domains are days to weeks old, whatever their copyright footer claims. A 'established 2010' store on a domain registered last Tuesday answers its own question.
For SEO and acquisitions: aged domains carry history — good (long-standing links, archive evidence of legitimate use) and bad (spam history visible in the archive snapshots). Checking what a domain actually hosted over the years beats guessing from its age number.
Methodology & data sources
Registration data comes from the registry itself: we query RDAP (the structured successor to WHOIS, straight from IANA's bootstrap registry) and fall back to legacy port-43 WHOIS where a registry hasn't deployed RDAP. That gives the creation date, expiration date and sponsoring registrar as the registry publishes them. Registry answers are cached for at most an hour; every result shows when it was checked.
Archive history comes from the Internet Archive's CDX index — the same data behind the Wayback Machine — which gives the first and most recent captures of the domain. A worked example: google.com shows a registration date of September 15, 1997 and archive captures starting November 1998; a freshly registered lookalike shows neither.
Two honest limits: a domain that expired and was re-registered restarts its WHOIS creation date (the archive history is how you catch that), and some country-code registries don't publish creation dates at all — for those, the first archive capture is the best public lower bound on age.
Frequently asked questions
How accurate is WHOIS creation date?
Authoritative for the current registration. What it can't show is whether the domain expired and was re-registered — the creation date resets when that happens. Cross-checking against archive history catches those resets: old snapshots with a recent creation date mean the domain dropped and was picked up again.
Does domain age affect Google rankings?
Google says age itself is not a ranking factor — but things correlated with age (accumulated links, history of consistent content) absolutely matter. Buying an aged domain for its age number alone buys you nothing; its link profile and archive history are what carry value.
Why does a domain have no archive snapshots?
Either it's genuinely new, it has always blocked crawling, or it never hosted public content (parked, internal use). For a site claiming years of operation, zero archive history is a meaningful red flag.
Can I see what a domain looked like years ago?
Yes — the report's archive timeline links into the Wayback Machine's captures by year, so you can open any era's snapshot directly.