Domain Age API Documentation

How To Use Domain Age API

Bulk domain name age checks. Programmatically check when a domain name was registered and how old it is.


Domain Age API use case

A Domain Age API has several practical applications across industries where trust, risk assessment, and digital asset evaluation matter.

In M&A, domain age is a quick signal of legitimacy and history when evaluating online businesses. Buyers analyzing SaaS, e-commerce, or content sites often look at how long a domain has existed to verify claims about brand longevity, traffic history, and SEO authority. In cybersecurity, domain age is critical when analyzing Newly Registered Domains (NRDs) and suspicious Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs). Many phishing campaigns, malware command-and-control servers, and fraud operations rely on freshly registered domains, so security platforms use domain age to flag high-risk infrastructure in real time.

In fintech, domain age helps assess the credibility of financial platforms, payment processors, or crypto services by identifying whether a website has an established presence or was recently created, therefor becoming an important signal for fraud detection, compliance checks, and automated risk scoring. By integrating a Domain Age API, platforms can enrich their intelligence pipelines with historical context about internet assets, enabling faster and more informed decision-making.

Domain Age API

Let’s make an example request:

http://api.whoapi.com/?domain=whoapi.com&r=domainage&apikey=demokey

Output JSON format:

{
  "registered": true,
  "domain_name": "whoapi.com",
  "date_created": "2011-02-14 15:31:26",
  "date_expires": "2033-02-14 15:31:26",
  "date_updated": "2020-08-26 04:16:26",
  "age_in_days": 5503,
  "age_in_years": 15.08,
  "_requests_available": 9999,
  "status": 0,
  "status_desc": "Success"
}

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whoapi.com was registered 14.02.2011

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