Domain Age Checker

Not on its own. Google has said age itself carries little weight. What correlates with age is accumulated links and history, which do matter - an old domain with no links ranks no better than a new one.

Only if its link profile is real and topically relevant. A dropped domain loses most of its value once it changes ownership and topic.

Many tools report first-seen-in-archive rather than registration date. We report the registry's own registration event, which is the authoritative number.

Some ccTLD registries do not publish registration events over RDAP. In that case we show the dates the registry does return.

There is no threshold. New domains rank for low-competition queries within weeks. What takes time is accumulating the links and history that competitive queries need, and that is a function of work, not calendar age.

If it drops and is re-registered, the registry records a new creation date and the domain is treated as new. Renewing before it drops changes nothing.

Google has denied a formal sandbox. New sites do rank more slowly, which is more plausibly explained by having no links, no click history and little crawl priority than by a deliberate penalty.

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Before buying an aged domain, look at what it hosted - a former spam or adult site carries baggage no amount of new content clears quickly.