Domain Expiry Checker

Companies you've heard of have lost domains this way

Expired domains have taken down household-name services - the renewal email went to a departed employee's inbox, the card on file expired, the domain lived in an account nobody remembered. When a domain lapses, everything on it goes: website, API, and - the part that turns bad into catastrophic - email, including the inbox that password resets and registrar warnings go to. Recovery from redemption periods is slow and expensive; recovery from a snapped-up domain sometimes never happens.

What the status codes mean

The registry status list is worth a glance: clientTransferProhibited is normal (it's transfer-lock, protecting the domain), autoRenewPeriod or renewPeriod means renewal just happened or is in grace, and anything with redemptionPeriod or pendingDelete means the domain is already past expiry and in the danger zone. A registrar shown alongside a healthy day count and a transfer lock is the picture you want.

Domain expiry questions

How do I check a domain's expiry date?

Enter the domain in the checker above. It queries the registry's RDAP service directly and shows the expiry date, days remaining, registrar, registry status codes, and nameservers. From a terminal, whois or an RDAP query returns the same date - the how-to-check guide linked below has both, plus a bulk script for a whole portfolio.

What does redemption period mean for a domain?

It is the stage after the registrar's grace period (commonly up to 30-45 days, registrar-dependent) has run out and the registrar has deleted the expired registration. For most gTLDs the registry then holds the domain for 30 days with the status redemptionPeriod. The website and email stay down the whole time.

What happens during a domain's redemption period?

The domain can still be recovered, but only by the original registrant, only through the original registrar, and usually for a restore fee of roughly $70-200 on top of the renewal price. If nobody restores it, the domain moves to pendingDelete for five days, after which nothing can bring it back and the name is released for anyone to register.

Why does the checker show no expiry date for my domain?

Some country-code registries don't publish expiry dates over RDAP, or publish limited data. A missing date on a ccTLD is the registry's policy, not a sign the domain has lapsed - your registrar dashboard is the source of truth for those.

Go deeper

• What happens when a domain expires - the day-by-day timeline from grace period to redemption to the drop.
• How to check a domain's expiration date - whois and RDAP from the command line, plus a bulk script for a whole portfolio.
• Domain expiry monitoring - why auto-renew and reminder emails fail silently, and what to do about it.