Domain age & WHOIS summary
When a domain was registered, how old it is, when it expires, who the registrar is and its transfer-lock status — pulled live from the RDAP registry.
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What domain age tells you and what it doesn't
Registration date is one of the fastest signals when you are vetting an affiliate network, a brand or a partner site. A domain registered last month behind a privacy service, expiring in a year, on a budget registrar is a different risk profile from one held for a decade with a transfer lock and a corporate registrar. It does not prove anything on its own — plenty of legitimate businesses launch on fresh domains, and old domains get bought and repurposed — but combined with licensing, reputation and payment history it is a useful cross-check. This tool reads the registry's RDAP record: registration and expiry dates, the sponsoring registrar, the EPP status codes and the current nameservers.
Reading the status codes
"clientTransferProhibited" and similar client* codes are a normal transfer lock set by the registrar and are a mild positive — the owner has taken a basic protective step. "pendingDelete" or "redemptionPeriod" mean the domain is on its way out. "serverHold" means the registry has removed it from the zone, so it does not resolve. RDAP does not expose the registrant's name or contact details for most TLDs since privacy rules tightened, so treat this as a summary of the domain's lifecycle, not full WHOIS.