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Domain expiry checker
Check when any domain expires. Expiration date, days remaining and registrar, live from the domain registry.
Coverage
Which domains publish an expiry date?
Most generic extensions do. Expiry dates are published less widely than registration dates, so a few extensions that work on our age checker come up blank here.
Generic extensions
Supported.Full record: expiry date, days remaining and registrar.
.com · .net · .org · .shop · .app · .dev
Many country extensions
Supported.Full expiry date, sometimes without the registrar name.
.co.uk · .fr · .ca · .in · .com.br · .com.ar
Registries that keep expiry private
Not available.These publish a registration date but never an expiry date, for any domain. Your registrar holds the renewal date instead.
.nl
Registries that publish nothing
Not available.No checker can read these. The registry runs no public lookup service, so there is no date to find.
.de · .io · .co · .us · .me · .eu · .es · .ch · .jp
Records with the date withheld
Not available.The registry answers and redacts the dates. We show what it did share and never estimate the rest.
.com.au and some privacy-protected registrations
How it works
How to check a domain’s expiry date
Enter the domain name
Type or paste any address, with or without www. A full URL works too.
Press Check expiry
Cruelx queries the domain registry over RDAP, the public lookup service that replaced WHOIS.
Read the countdown
Days remaining, the exact expiry date and the registrar. It takes about a second.
Why it matters
Why people check an expiry date
Protecting your own site
An expired domain takes the website and the company email down together, usually before anyone notices the renewal notice went to an old inbox. This is the cheapest outage to prevent.
Managing client domains
If you look after sites for other people, their renewal dates are your problem the day one lapses. Checking a date takes a second and the conversation afterwards does not.
Waiting on a domain you want
The expiry date tells you the earliest point a name could become available, and whether the owner has just renewed for another 5 years.
Checking who you are dealing with
A domain expiring in 3 weeks suggests nobody is minding the website behind it. It proves nothing by itself, and it is free to read.
The timeline
What happens when a domain expires?
The expiry date is not the day the domain disappears. For most generic extensions it starts a sequence of 4 named stages that runs 2 to 3 months. The part worth knowing: the website breaks at the beginning of it, not the end.
- Expiry dayDay 0The registration lapses. The registrar stops publishing the nameservers, so the website and the email on that domain stop working. This is the day that costs money.
- Grace period30 to 45 daysSet by the registrar, so the exact length varies. The owner can usually still renew at the normal price, and many registrars park the domain on a holding page meanwhile.
- Redemption periodAbout 30 daysThe name can still be restored, but at a much higher fee than a renewal would have cost. Nobody else can register it yet.
- Pending deleteAbout 5 daysNothing can be done by anyone. At the end of it the name is released, and only then can someone else register it.
Country extensions set their own timetables, and some are much shorter. If one of these dates matters to you, confirm it with the registrar rather than assuming the generic schedule applies.
Beyond the domain
Expiry is 1 of 45+ checks.
Cruelx is an AI-powered website audit tool. A free report scores your site on design, SEO, copywriting, trust signals and buyer psychology, then adds the measured checks: security grade, SSL certificate, DNS and email trust, robots and sitemap, and detected technologies. It takes under a minute.
Questions
Domain expiry FAQ
Will my website go down the day my domain expires?
Usually within a day or two, yes. Once the registration lapses the registrar stops publishing the domain’s nameservers, which takes the website and any email on that domain down together. Some registrars park an expired domain on a holding page first. Either way the outage arrives before the domain is deleted, so the expiry date is the deadline that matters, not the deletion date.
Why can't you find my domain's expiry date?
The registry does not publish it, and that happens in 2 different ways. Some registries publish no data at all, including .de, .io, .co, .us, .me, .eu and .jp. Others answer but keep expiry private: .nl publishes a registration date for every domain and an expiry date for none. In both cases your registrar holds the renewal date, and no checker can work around a registry’s policy.
Is the domain expiry checker free?
Yes. No signup, no email and no daily limit for normal use. The lookup goes to the domain registry, which costs us nothing to query, so there is nothing to charge for.
How long after a domain expires does it become available?
Longer than most people expect: 2 to 3 months for most generic extensions. The grace period runs 30 to 45 days, the redemption period about 30 more, and pending delete about 5. The name is only released at the very end, so for the whole stretch before that it is unavailable to you and still recoverable by the current owner. Country extensions set their own timetables.
How many years can a domain be registered for?
Anywhere from 1 to 10 years at a time, and no registry will accept more than 10 in a single term. A distant expiry date is therefore a deliberate choice by the owner rather than a default, which is why it reads as a signal that someone is looking after the name.
Can I check several domains at once?
One at a time. Every check is a live query to the domain registry rather than a cached lookup, so the answer is always current. Paste the next domain over the last one and press Check expiry again.
Does an expired domain lose its search rankings?
Yes, and quickly. Once the site stops resolving, crawlers get errors and the pages fall out of the index. Recovering the domain restores the address, not the rankings: links pointing at a dead site decay, and the trust built up around it does not come back on its own. Letting a domain lapse is one of the most expensive avoidable mistakes in SEO. Our technical SEO guide covers the rest of that ground.
What else can Cruelx tell me about my website?
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