Domain Age, WHOIS & RDAP Lookup

Domain Age & RDAP Lookup

Bulk domain lookup via RDAP (the modern WHOIS): registration date, domain age, expiry, registrar, status and nameservers, with a new-domain flag for fraud and merchant-risk checks.

How it works

Queries the public RDAP bootstrap at rdap.org, which redirects to the authoritative registry. Some ccTLDs have no public RDAP service; those are returned with an error and are not charged.

Output

domain, registered, createdAt, expiresAt, ageDays, registrar, status, nameservers, newDomainFlag

Pricing (pay-per-event)

• domain-looked-up: $0.001 per result ($1 / 1,000). Platform usage is included; you pay only for results.

Example input

{
  "domains": [
    "apify.com",
    "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news",
    "example.org"
  ]
}

Example output

{
  "domain": "apify.com",
  "registered": true,
  "createdAt": "2015-03-18T09:13:51Z",
  "expiresAt": "2027-03-18T09:13:51Z",
  "ageDays": 4226,
  "registrar": "NameCheap, Inc.",
  "status": [
    "client transfer prohibited"
  ],
  "nameservers": [
    "ns1.example.com"
  ],
  "newDomainFlag": false
}

Disclaimer

Registry data is provided by the registries under their own terms; contact data is usually redacted under GDPR. Domain age is a risk signal only, not proof of fraud.

Use in Clay, Zapier, Make, n8n, Pipedream, Power Automate or Activepieces

All of them connect to Apify through their official Apify integrations, using your own Apify account: an API token from Apify Console > Settings > API & Integrations, or Apify sign-in for Power Automate. Runs bill to your Apify account at this Actor's pay-per-event price.

• Clay: save this Actor's input as an Apify task and copy it as JSON. In your Clay table, add the Run Apify Actor enrichment, choose it and paste the JSON into Input Data, mapping Clay columns into the fields. To pull a finished run into a new table, use the Import data from Apify Actor source.
• Zapier: use the Apify Run Actor action, or the Finished Actor run trigger followed by Fetch dataset items. Synchronous runs in Zapier stop after 30 seconds, so use the trigger for big batches.
• Make: add the Apify Run an Actor module with Run synchronously set to Yes, then Get Dataset Items with the run's dataset ID. For longer runs, use the Watch Actor Runs trigger.
• n8n: install the Apify node (@apify/n8n-nodes-apify, or search "Apify" on n8n Cloud) and use Run an Actor and get dataset.
• Pipedream: add the Apify app's Run Actor action, or Run Task Synchronously on one of this Actor's public example tasks (or your own saved task) to get the dataset items back in one step. For big batches, start from the New Finished Actor Run or New Finished Task Run trigger, then Get Dataset Items.
• Power Automate: add the Apify connector (a premium connector, currently in preview) and sign in with your Apify account. Use Run Actor with Enter custom value set to sterlingverify/domain-rdap-lookup and paste the input as JSON, then Get dataset items with the run's default dataset ID. For big batches, start the flow from the Actor run finished trigger instead.
• Activepieces: add the Apify piece and use Run Actor, or Run Task on one of this Actor's public example tasks (or your own saved task), then Get Dataset Items. For scheduled or big batches, use the Watch Actor Runs or Watch Task Runs trigger.
• Google Drive / Sheets: add Apify's Upload results to GDrive integration to a scheduled task to drop each run's CSV or XLSX into your team's Drive, or chain the Google Sheets Import & Export actor to append rows to a sheet.
• Slack alerts: add Apify's Slack integration to a scheduled task to post each run's results to your team channel, or start a check from Slack with /apify call and your task ID.
• Any HTTP tool or script: send one request and get the results back as JSON. Runs must finish within 5 minutes.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sterlingverify~domain-rdap-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @input.json

FAQ

Is this a WHOIS lookup? It uses RDAP, the modern official replacement for WHOIS, giving structured registration, expiry, registrar and status data.

How do I find a domain's age? Paste domains; each row returns the creation date and age in days, so you can flag domains registered recently.

Why does domain age matter? Very new domains are a common fraud and high-risk merchant signal in onboarding, KYB and ad/affiliate checks.

Related SterlingVerify tools

• Email Domain Checker
• SSL Certificate Expiry Checker
• Merchant Website Compliance Checker
• Payments Stack Detector
• UK Company Check (KYB)

Part of the SterlingVerify UK payments & compliance toolkit. Browse all tools: https://apify.com/sterlingverify