# Domain Age Checker (`ayeeyee/domain-age-checker`) Actor

Domain Age Checker returns normalized, review-ready API data with robust inputs, consistent outputs, and pay-per-result pricing.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ayeeyee/domain-age-checker.md
- **Developed by:** [Virtual Footprint LLC](https://apify.com/ayeeyee) (community)
- **Categories:** Open source
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.13 / 1,000 domain checkeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Domain Age & WHOIS Checker

Look up domain registration data via **RDAP** — the IETF-standardized successor to WHOIS. Structured JSON, no scraping, no API key. Get registrar, creation date, expiration date, computed domain age, nameservers, and status codes for any domain, in bulk.

**Pricing:** $0.0001 one-time actor-start + **$0.003 per domain successfully resolved**. Domains that don't resolve (never registered, or the TLD's registry doesn't support RDAP) are **never charged**.

### Why RDAP instead of scraping WHOIS pages

Legacy WHOIS is unstructured plain text with a different format per registry, and many registries now redact WHOIS output. RDAP replaced it as the IETF standard (RFC 7480+): every registry publishes RDAP as clean, structured JSON, no rate-limit-prone scraping needed. This actor queries `rdap.org`, a public RDAP bootstrap service that resolves the correct authoritative registry server per TLD.

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `domains` | array\<string> | one of `domains`/`domain` | Domains to check. Bare domains or full URLs both work. |
| `domain` | string | one of `domains`/`domain` | Single-domain convenience alternative. |

### Output (per domain)

```json
{
  "domain": "google.com",
  "found": true,
  "registrar": "MarkMonitor Inc.",
  "createdDate": "1997-09-15T04:00:00Z",
  "expiresDate": "2028-09-14T04:00:00Z",
  "ageDays": 10559,
  "ageYears": 28.9,
  "nameservers": ["NS1.GOOGLE.COM", "NS2.GOOGLE.COM"],
  "status": ["client delete prohibited", "client transfer prohibited"],
  "reason": null,
  "checkedAt": "2026-08-13T17:24:00Z"
}
```

Domains that don't resolve return `found: false` with a `reason` (`not_found_or_unregistered`, `unsupported_tld`, `network_error`, etc.) — never a fabricated result.

### What this doesn't do

No legacy-WHOIS plain-text parsing (RDAP coverage is now near-universal across gTLDs and most ccTLDs, but a handful of smaller ccTLD registries haven't adopted RDAP yet — those return `unsupported_tld`, not a guess).

# Actor input Schema

## `domains` (type: `array`):

List of domain names to check (e.g. example.com). Bare domains or full URLs both work.

## `domain` (type: `string`):

Use this OR 'domains', not both.

## Actor input object example

```json
{}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ayeeyee/domain-age-checker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ayeeyee/domain-age-checker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call ayeeyee/domain-age-checker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ayeeyee/domain-age-checker"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/qoAjZwJp6dhaTFgMj/builds/pBUPpUtdR3zFIfsyN/openapi.json