Domain expiration checker

What the result shows

Expires

The date the registration runs out, as the registry records it, with the days left. Your registrar’s own expiration date can be earlier (see where the data comes from). If the registration lapses, the domain can stop resolving: the website and email on it go dark.

Registered and last changed

When the domain was first registered, and when its registration record last changed (a renewal, a transfer, new name servers).

Registrar

The company the domain is registered through, where you renew it. The IANA ID identifies accredited registrars.

Nameservers

The servers that answer for the domain’s DNS, as the registry lists them, so its website and email follow them. If they changed and you didn’t change them, ask your registrar.

Statuses

Flags on the domain, such as transfer locks or a grace period after expiry. The result explains each one, and puts the ones that mean act now at the top with what to do: a hold (the domain doesn’t resolve), redemption period or pending delete (it was deleted), and a transfer to another registrar that is pending.

Where the data comes from

We ask the registry that runs the domain’s ending (Verisign for .com, Nominet for .uk, and so on) using RDAP, the Registration Data Access Protocol. RDAP is the standardized successor to WHOIS (RFC 9082 and RFC 9083): structured data over HTTPS instead of free-form text. More in RDAP vs WHOIS.

The expiry date is the registry’s: the expiration event in its RDAP answer. Your registrar keeps its own registration expiration date, and as ICANN reminded registrars in September 2025, the two can differ when the registry has renewed a domain automatically but the registrant hasn’t renewed it with the registrar. A status of auto renew period means the registry did this, and the registrar can still reverse it for a short time (ICANN’s status codes). So a later date here doesn’t prove you renewed or paid. Check the renewal date and status in your registrar’s account.

We reuse a registry’s answer for up to 12 hours, and keep showing the last good one if a new lookup fails, saying when the registry gave it and that it wasn’t confirmed again, so a renewal you just made can take a while to show here.

Common statuses

Every status, who can remove it and what to do about it is in domain status codes.

Before a domain expires

• Turn on auto-renew at your registrar, and check that the payment method on file still works.
• Make sure the registrar’s contact email reaches someone. Renewal notices go there.
• Renew for several years if the domain matters. It costs the same per year and removes a yearly chance to forget.
• If it does lapse, act quickly. Most registries keep an expired domain for a grace period and then a redemption period, during which the owner can still recover it, usually for a fee. The lengths vary by registry and registrar: see what happens when a domain expires.
• Renew only in your own registrar account. A renewal notice from anyone else is often a scam: how to check one.

When there’s no expiry date

This tool can’t look up registration data for every ending, and a registry’s answer for a domain can leave the expiry date out. The result says which. Neither means the domain is unregistered or about to expire. Check the renewal date with your registrar.