--- title: "Domain Age Checker: Free Website Age & Domain Age Lookup" description: "Check domain age free: see exactly how old any website or domain is in years, months and days, plus registration and expiry dates, from the official registry." url: https://getmylocations.com/domain-age-checker --- Free Domain Age Checker · Official registry data # Domain Age Checker Enter any domain or website address to **check domain age**: see exactly **how old it is in years, months and days**, **when it was registered and when it expires**, with its registrar, status and name servers, straight from the official registry. Last updated November 4, 2026 by [Ahmed Anwar](https://getmylocations.com/about). ## Check how old a domain is Try: ## How to check the age of a domain or website - **Enter the domain,** such as example.com, or paste the full website address. Subdomains and page paths are removed for you. - **Press Check age.** The checker asks the domain’s official registry for its record, the same data a **WHOIS domain age** lookup shows. - **Read the result:** the **domain age** in years, months and days, the **domain registration date** (the **domain creation date**), the expiry date with time left, the registrar and the name servers. This **domain age checker** works as a **domain age calculator**: it counts from the registry’s creation date to today, so the figure is exact to the day, not rounded to the year. ## Why check a domain’s age - **Spotting scams:** a shop or bank site registered a few weeks ago deserves extra caution. Phishing sites are often registered only days before they are used. - **Buying a domain:** check its **domain history** and expiry before paying. - **SEO and link building:** see how long a site has been around before you buy a link, a guest post or the whole site. - **Your own domains:** use it as a **domain expiry date checker** and see the expiry date before it lapses and someone else takes it. ## Domain age vs website age | Feature | Domain age | Website age | | --- | --- | --- | | Counts from | The day the domain was registered | The day a site first went online | | Source | Official registry (RDAP / WHOIS) | Archive snapshots, such as the Wayback Machine | | Resets when | The domain expires and is registered again | Rarely; old snapshots stay | | Best for | Ownership, scam checks, expiry | Content history, past owners’ sites | For most purposes, **website age** and domain age are close, so this **website age checker** answers both “**how old is a domain**” and “**how old is a website**”. If you need to know what was on a domain before, open its earliest snapshot on the [Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/). ## How old are famous websites? These are the registration dates of well-known domains, read from each one’s official registry record. Several are older than the company that uses them now: the name was registered by someone else first and bought later, or registered long before launch. That is the gap between domain age and website age in practice. | Domain | Registered | Age | Note | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | symbolics.com | 15 March 1985 | 41 years | The first .com ever registered | | bbn.com | 24 April 1985 | 41 years | BBN built the ARPANET, the internet’s forerunner | | ibm.com | 19 March 1986 | 40 years | — | | apple.com | 19 February 1987 | 39 years | — | | microsoft.com | 2 May 1991 | 35 years | — | | x.com | 2 April 1993 | 33 years | Used for X (formerly Twitter) since 2023 | | cnn.com | 22 September 1993 | 33 years | — | | amazon.com | 1 November 1994 | 32 years | — | | yahoo.com | 18 January 1995 | 31 years | — | | ebay.com | 4 August 1995 | 31 years | — | | tiktok.com | 21 July 1996 | 30 years | TikTok launched worldwide in 2017 | | facebook.com | 29 March 1997 | 29 years | Facebook launched in 2004 | | google.com | 15 September 1997 | 29 years | — | | netflix.com | 11 November 1997 | 28 years | — | | twitter.com | 21 January 2000 | 26 years | Twitter launched in 2006 | | wikipedia.org | 13 January 2001 | 25 years | — | | linkedin.com | 2 November 2002 | 24 years | — | | instagram.com | 4 June 2004 | 22 years | Instagram launched in 2010 | | youtube.com | 15 February 2005 | 21 years | — | | reddit.com | 29 April 2005 | 21 years | — | | openai.com | 19 January 2007 | 19 years | OpenAI was founded in 2015 | | github.com | 9 October 2007 | 19 years | — | | whatsapp.com | 4 September 2008 | 18 years | — | Ages are counted to 4 November 2026, when the records were checked. Type any of these domains into the checker above for its age today, to the day. ## Reading the domain status - **client transfer prohibited:** transfer lock set by the registrar, normal and recommended. - **active / ok:** no restrictions, the domain works normally. - **redemption period / pending delete:** the domain has expired and will soon be released. - **server hold / client hold:** the domain is suspended and will not resolve. To see who is behind an IP address, use the [IP WHOIS lookup](https://getmylocations.com/ip-whois-lookup); to see where the domain points, the [DNS lookup](https://getmylocations.com/dns-lookup); to check its certificates, the [SSL certificate checker](https://getmylocations.com/ssl-certificate-checker). ## Frequently asked questions What is the oldest domain name? symbolics.com, registered on 15 March 1985, is the oldest .com domain and the first ever registered in the .com zone. bbn.com followed on 24 April 1985. Both are still registered today. How old is google.com? google.com was registered on 15 September 1997, which makes it 29 years old as of 4 November 2026. The domain is a year older than Google the company, which was founded in September 1998. How do I check domain age? Type the domain or paste the website’s address into the checker and press Check age. It reads the registration date from the registry that runs the domain’s ending (such as Verisign for .com), which is the official record, and shows the age in years, months and days. Is this domain age checker free? Yes. It is free with no signup and no daily limit. Check as many domains as you like. Is website age the same as domain age? Not always. Domain age counts from the day the name was registered. A website can go live years later, or a domain can be re-registered after an older site on it expired. To see when a site was first online, look up its earliest snapshot on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Can I paste a full URL or a subdomain? Yes. Paste a full address such as https://blog.example.com/page and the checker reduces it to the registered domain, example.com, because only the registered domain has a registration date. Is domain age a Google ranking factor? Google has said domain age itself is not a ranking factor. Older sites often rank well because they have built up content and links over time, not because of the date. Why does the age reset after a domain was dropped? If a domain expires and someone else registers it again, the registry creates a new record with a new creation date. The age shown is that of the current registration. Why does my country domain show no data? The tool uses RDAP, the modern replacement for WHOIS. All generic domains (.com, .org, .net and new ones) support it, but some country-code registries do not publish RDAP data yet. ## Related tools [ ### IP WHOIS Lookup Who owns an IP address ](https://getmylocations.com/ip-whois-lookup)[ ### DNS Lookup A, AAAA, CNAME, TXT and more ](https://getmylocations.com/dns-lookup)[ ### NS Lookup Name servers for a domain ](https://getmylocations.com/ns-lookup)[ ### SSL Certificate Checker Certificates and fingerprints ](https://getmylocations.com/ssl-certificate-checker) AA Written by ### Ahmed Anwar Senior software engineer in Karachi. Builds the geolocation tools, mapping pages, and coordinate utilities on GetMyLocations. Writes about GPS, browser geolocation, and IP geolocation from the perspective of someone who ships the code, not the marketing. This article was researched and drafted with AI assistance, then edited and fact-checked by Ahmed before publication. [More about the author](https://getmylocations.com/about).