Domain expiry checker
See when a domain expires, its registrar and status. Free, no signup.
Never lose a domain to a missed renewal
WWT watches your domain's registration date, plus SSL, uptime and email security, and alerts you well before it expires. Free, no credit card.
How to read your domain expiry result
The expiry date is when your domain registration runs out - not the certificate. If it lapses the domain can stop resolving and, after a grace period, be registered by someone else. The result shows the date, the days remaining and the registrar of record, read live from the registry via RDAP.
Domain expiry is one of the quietest ways for a business to lose its website and email at once, because the renewal notice often lands in an inbox nobody watches. A one-off check tells you where you stand today; continuous monitoring warns you 30, 14, 7, 3 and 1 day ahead so a renewal never slips through.
What happens after a domain expires
Expiry is not an instant loss. It starts a countdown through several registry stages, each one more expensive to reverse than the last. Knowing where a domain sits in that sequence tells you how much time and money recovery will cost.
The expiry date passes
The registration lapses. Many registrars stop the website and email at this point, although the name is still yours.
Renewal grace period, roughly 30 to 45 days
You can still renew at the normal price. The registry status usually shows autoRenewPeriod during this window.
Redemption period, roughly 30 days
The domain is deleted but can be restored by the original owner only, with a restore fee that often runs to a hundred euros or more.
Pending delete, 5 days
The final stage. The name can no longer be restored by anyone, at any price.
Released to the public
The domain drops and anyone can register it. Names with traffic or backlinks are usually caught within seconds by drop-catching services.
Exact windows vary by TLD and registrar. Country-code registries often run their own timetable.
About domain expiry
What is domain expiry?
Every domain is registered for a period and must be renewed before it expires. If it lapses, your website and email stop working and someone else can grab the name.
Why monitor domain expiry?
Renewal emails get missed, cards expire, people leave the company. An automatic watch on the registration date is the cheapest insurance against losing your domain.
What are RDAP and WHOIS?
RDAP and WHOIS are the registry protocols that publish domain registration data, including the expiry date. WWT uses RDAP with a WHOIS fallback.
What is RDAP, and why use it instead of WHOIS?
RDAP is the modern, structured successor to WHOIS. It returns machine-readable registration data straight from the registry, which is more reliable than parsing free-text WHOIS. For the few TLDs without RDAP, a manual override is available.
My TLD shows no data - what does that mean?
Some country-code registries publish no RDAP endpoint, so an automated lookup cannot read the expiry date. That is not a fault on your side - in the full product you can set the renewal date manually and still receive expiry alerts.