What’s your domain’s
expiry date?
The exact expiry date, registrar, EPP status codes and nameservers, read from the registry. Plus a live check: does the site behind the name still answer?
Everything one lookup should tell you
“Is my domain OK?” is really four questions. One pass answers all of them.
The expiry date
The registry’s own answer, not a cached copy — the exact date, days remaining, and where the domain sits in its registration term.
Registrar & status
Who it’s registered through, and every EPP status flag — transfer locks, holds, and the quiet ones that mean act today.
Nameservers
Where the domain delegates its DNS. Parking nameservers on a domain you own are the classic first sign of a lapse.
Is it live?
Registered is only half the question. We resolve the name and fetch the site — so “active” means answering, not just on paper.
What happens when a domain expires
“Expired” isn’t an event — it’s a process, with a clock and a price at every stage. Here’s the .com version.
Renew any time at the normal price. Registrars start emailing reminders 60 days out — to whatever address is on file.
~$12 / yrStill renewable at the normal price — but most registrars park your DNS on day one, so the site goes dark immediately.
~$12 · site already downThe registry holds the domain. Getting it back now means a redemption fee on top of renewal — plus processing days.
$70 – 150 + renewalFive days of limbo, no recovery possible. Then it drops — and drop-catching services register good domains within seconds.
anyone can take itExact windows vary by TLD and registrar — .com grace is commonly ~30 days, while some ccTLDs offer none at all. The lookup above tells you which stage a domain is actually in.
What WHOIS status codes actually mean
Every domain carries EPP flags. Most are routine. Two of them mean your site is dark right now.
The good lock. Your registrar blocks transfers unless you unlock first, so a hijacker can’t quietly move the domain. Nearly every healthy domain has it.
No locks at all. Sounds fine — it’s actually the risky one: nothing prevents an unauthorized transfer. Domain hijacks start here.
Your registrar pulled the domain out of DNS — it stops resolving entirely. An expiry, or an unanswered WHOIS-verification email.
The domain just expired and sits in the registry-level grace window. Renewal at the normal price is still possible — the clock is running.
Deep-expired. The registry holds it for ~30 more days — recoverable, but only through your registrar and only for a $70–150 fee.
Five days from release to the open market. Nothing can stop it now — be ready to re-register the second it drops, against the drop-catchers.
Two protocols, one record
Every lookup here asks twice: RDAP first — the structured JSON successor — and classic WHOIS on port 43 for the registrar’s copy. What you should know about the record that comes back:
- RDAP answers in JSON with consistent field names — the machine-readable successor to WHOIS.
- WHOIS is 1980s plain text — every registry formats it differently, with dozens of date formats in the wild. We parse it so you don’t.
- Since GDPR (2018), personal fields read REDACTED FOR PRIVACY — but expiry, registrar, statuses and nameservers stay public.
- Registry vs registrar — the two copies can disagree right after a renewal. We show the registry’s answer, the authoritative one.
The same record, both ways
source · what it gives youThe whois cheatsheet, decoded.
Every check this page runs has a command-line equivalent. Here’s the crib sheet — we just run all of them at once and translate the output.
Common questions
Type it above — the verdict leads with the exact expiry date, the days remaining, and where the domain sits in its registration term. On the command line it's "whois yourdomain.com | grep -i expir". And if you'd rather never check manually again, leave your address under any result: we re-read the record and email you 60, 30, 14, 7 and 1 day out, no account needed.
A staged process, not a cliff: for ~30 days (the grace window) you can renew at the normal price — though most registrars park your DNS on day one, so the site goes dark immediately. Then ~30 days of redemption, where recovery costs a $70–150 registry fee. Then five days of pendingDelete — and it drops to the open market, where drop-catchers register good names within seconds.
Not in the way domains do. DNS records carry TTLs — cache lifetimes measured in seconds to a day — and the SOA record has a field literally named "expire", but that governs secondary nameservers, not your registration. The thing with a real expiry date is the domain itself, and that's what this tool reads from the registry.
Those are two different questions, and this tool answers both. "Expired or not" lives in WHOIS: the expiry date plus status flags like clientHold or redemptionPeriod. "Live or not" is a network question: does the name resolve, and does the site answer? The classic trap is an expired domain serving a registrar parking page — which returns a perfectly healthy-looking 200 OK.
GDPR. Since 2018, registries and registrars strip personal registrant fields from public WHOIS. Everything operationally useful — expiry date, registrar, status codes, nameservers — remains public, which is exactly the set this tool shows.
Not for most domains — between GDPR redaction and privacy-proxy services, the registrant is hidden. You can still see which registrar it sits at, and reach the owner through the registrar's relay address or the website itself. For due diligence, the registration and update dates often tell you more than the name field ever did.
Free, no sign-up — and you can leave an address on any result to be emailed 60, 30, 14, 7 and 1 day before that one domain expires. For a whole portfolio, that's Uptimia's domain monitoring: it re-reads every domain's WHOIS daily and warns you at the lead time you choose. It starts with the paid plans — 10 domains on Basic up to 1,000 on Enterprise — and the 30-day trial includes it in full, 50 domains, no credit card.
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