Domain Expiry Checker
Find out when a domain's registration ends. Enter one domain or a list of up to ten, and see each expiry date with the days remaining, ordered so that the most urgent renewal comes first.
- Encrypted connection
- No sign-up
- Free to use
How to use Domain Expiry Checker
- Enter one domain per line, up to ten.
- Select Check expiry dates.
- Read the list, which is sorted by the nearest expiry date and colour-coded by urgency.
- Open a row for the exact date and time, the registrar and any status that affects renewal.
Domain Expiry Checker features
Days remaining
Each domain shows how many days are left, or how long ago it expired.
Bulk check
Up to ten domains in one request, with the most urgent at the top.
Urgency colours
Red for expired or due within 30 days, amber within 90 days, green beyond that.
Renewal-related statuses
Highlights auto-renew grace, redemption and pending-delete states.
Exact timestamp
The registry's expiry date and time in UTC, not just the day.
Per-domain error handling
An unsupported or mistyped domain is reported on its own line without stopping the rest.
When to use Domain Expiry Checker
- Reviewing all the domains of a company before the renewal budget is planned.
- Checking that a renewal you paid for has been applied by the registrar.
- Watching a domain you would like to register if its owner lets it lapse.
- Finding the cause when a website and its email stop working at the same time.
Domain Expiry Checker FAQ
What happens when a domain expires?
For most generic domains there is first a grace period of up to about 45 days in which the owner can renew at the normal price, although the website and email may already be switched off. A redemption period of around 30 days follows, where recovery costs an extra fee. After a final pending-delete phase of about five days the name is released for anyone to register. Country-code domains follow their own, often shorter, rules.
Why did the expiry date move forward by a year although nobody renewed?
Many registries renew a domain automatically at the moment it expires and mark it with the autoRenewPeriod status. The registrar then has some weeks to cancel that renewal if the owner does not pay. A date one year ahead combined with this status therefore does not prove that the domain was really renewed.
Can the registrar show a different date than the registry?
Yes. Some records contain both a registry expiry date and a registrar expiry date, and registrars often ask for payment well before the registry date. The date shown here is the registry's. The date in your registrar account is the one that decides when you have to pay.
Why is no expiry date shown for some domains?
Several country-code registries do not publish expiry dates, and some use open-ended registrations that run until cancelled. The tool then reports that the date is not published.
How can I avoid losing a domain?
Turn on automatic renewal, keep the payment method and the contact email in the registrar account up to date, and renew important names for several years. A calendar reminder a month before expiry is a cheap extra safeguard.
Can I register a domain right after it expires?
No. An expired domain stays with its owner through the grace and redemption periods. It becomes available only after it has been deleted, which is typically two to three months after the expiry date.
Why expiry dates deserve attention
A domain is rented, never owned outright. The registration runs for a fixed period of one to ten years and must be renewed before it ends. When a renewal is missed, the consequences arrive in stages. First the name servers are switched off or replaced with a parking page, which takes the website and every mailbox on the domain offline together. Customers see an advertisement page, messages bounce, and password-reset emails for other services that use those mailboxes stop arriving.
Most lapses are not deliberate. The credit card on file expired, renewal notices went to a former employee's address, or the domain was registered years ago in a personal account that nobody remembers. This is why a periodic check of all the domains an organisation depends on is worthwhile, including the ones that are not obviously in use: a domain that only handles redirects, hosts a mail service or appears in old printed material can still cause real damage when it disappears.
The bulk view on this page is built for that review. Paste the list, and the domains come back in order of urgency. Anything within thirty days is flagged in red, because that is the window in which a failed payment can no longer be fixed quietly.
For names you hope to acquire, the expiry date is only the start of the wait. Watch the status codes instead: redemptionPeriod means the owner can still recover the name, pendingDelete means it will be released within days.