Domain Expiry Checker

Why check your domain expiration date?

Letting a domain expire can cause serious damage to your business. Here's what happens when a domain expires:

• Your website, email, and any services tied to that domain go offline immediately.
• You lose the ability to update DNS records or make any changes to the domain.
• Your registrar replaces your site with a parked page, which signals to search engines that your content is gone.
• Search engines will keep trying to crawl your site. When they find a parked page instead of your content, your rankings will drop and your indexed pages may be removed entirely.

Checking your domain expiration date regularly is one of the simplest ways to avoid an unexpected outage.

About this tool

Our free domain expiry checker tells you exactly when any domain name expires. Enter a domain and the tool performs a full domain expiration lookup via RDAP (the modern registration data protocol), falling back to a WHOIS lookup when needed, returning the expiration date, days remaining until expiry, the domain registrar, current IP address, last updated date, and registration status. It also serves as a quick DNS expiry check for any domain you want to verify. No account or signup is required.

How to look up a domain's expiration date

If you want to find out when a domain expires, the fastest way is to run a domain name expiry check using this tool. Below are the exact steps it takes under the hood when you click Check.

How it works

1. You enter a domain name (for example, example.com) and click Check.
2. The tool queries the official RDAP registry first, parsing the registration events to extract creation date, expiration date, and last updated date.
3. If RDAP data is unavailable, it falls back to a WHOIS lookup so older TLDs still return useful data.
4. The tool also resolves the domain's current A record via DNS to show you the IP address it points to right now.
5. You get a permalink you can share or bookmark to revisit the latest check for that domain.

Related reading

If you want to go beyond one-off checks and get alerted automatically before a domain expires, read our guide on domain expiration monitoring. If you're troubleshooting a site that just went down, our guides on how to check if a website is down and fixing DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN walk through the most common causes (including expired domains).

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