Domain Expiry Checker

Use this free domain expiry checker to see when any domain name expires. Paste one domain or up to 20, and see the expiry date, days left, registrar and status, straight from the registry. Free, no sign-up.

One per line or separated by commas, for example example.com, mybrand.co.uk
Lookups go from your browser to the public RDAP service. We do not store the domains you check.

How the domain expiry checker works

It sends a public RDAP query for each domain. RDAP is the registration data service that ICANN requires for generic domains such as .com, .net and .org, and many country-code registries run it too.

It reads the registry’s "expiration" event, the registrar and the domain status codes, and works out the days left.

If a registry does not publish an expiry date (some country-code registries, such as .de, do not), it says so rather than guessing.

Checking an SSL certificate instead?

A domain and its SSL/TLS certificate expire separately, and certificates now expire much more often. You can check a certificate’s expiry date in two ways.

  1. In a browser: open the site, click the icon to the left of the address, open the certificate details and read the "Expires on" or "Valid to" date.
  2. From a terminal: run openssl s_client -connect example.com:443 -servername example.com </dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -enddate and read the notAfter date.

Since 15 March 2026 a public TLS certificate can last at most 200 days. The limit drops to 100 days from 15 March 2027 and to 47 days from 15 March 2029. Automate renewal where you can, and keep a reminder for every certificate automation cannot reach.

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Never lose a domain to an expired card or a forgotten inbox

Most expired domains are not abandoned. The renewal email went to someone who left, or the card on the registrar account expired. ExpiryEdge gives every domain, certificate and subscription an owner and reminders at 90, 60, 30 and 7 days by email, Slack, Teams or SMS.

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Domain expiry: frequently asked questions

What happens when a domain expires, and how to avoid it

Enter the domain in the checker above. It asks the registry over RDAP and shows the expiry date, the days left and the registrar. You can also log in to your registrar account, where the expiry date is shown next to each domain.

The website and email can stop working on the day it expires. For generic domains such as .com, ICANN requires registrars to send renewal reminders about one month and one week before expiry. After expiry your registrar decides how long the name stays renewable, and after deletion there is a 30-day redemption period at a higher restore fee.

It depends on your registrar and the extension. ICANN policy lets a registrar delete a gTLD registration at any time after expiry, and the .com registry allows up to 45 days of auto-renew grace, but your registrar may delete sooner. Country-code domains follow their own registry rules. Renew before the expiry date.

Some country-code registries do not publish an expiry date through RDAP, and a few do not run RDAP at all. In that case check the date in your registrar account or with the registry directly.

It answers the same question. RDAP is the newer, structured replacement for WHOIS, and ICANN made it the definitive source of registration data for generic domains in 2025. The checker only reads public data such as dates, registrar and status.

You should not have to. Turn on auto-renew, keep the card on the registrar account current, and put each domain in a tracker with a named owner and reminders at 90, 30 and 7 days. A free checker is a good audit, not a reminder system.