DNS Lookup & Domain Age Checker

One report instead of five terminal commands

The lookup answers the questions that actually come up when diagnosing a domain: where does it point (A, AAAA, CNAME), who handles its mail (MX), who controls its DNS (NS), what has it declared to the world (TXT), and, from the registry itself, when it was born, when it expires and through which registrar. Records are queried live against the public DNS, not from a cache, so what you see is what resolvers see right now.

Reading the signals

Name servers reveal infrastructure choices instantly: entries at cloudflare.com mean the site sits behind Cloudflare and its visible IPs are edge nodes; registrar-branded name servers on a business site suggest nobody ever moved DNS off defaults. Mail routed to Google or Microsoft shows up in MX at a glance. A CNAME at the www host pointing to a builder domain tells you exactly which platform the site really lives on, which pairs nicely with our platform detector.

Dead domains and due diligence

Because registration data comes from RDAP rather than the site itself, the tool works on domains that no longer resolve, which makes it useful in two situations we see weekly: checking whether an expired domain you want to recover is worth pursuing (registered? parked? dropped?), and vetting a domain before purchase, where a long unbroken registration history is worth paying for and a freshly re-registered “aged” domain is not the asset it claims to be.