Domain expiry checker: see when a domain expires, from its registry
Enter a domain or any address on it. This free domain expiry checker reads the registration straight from the registry over RDAP, WHOIS's structured successor, and tells you the expiry date, how many days are left, the registrar, whether the registry has the domain on hold or on its way to deletion, and whether the transfer lock is on.
Free, no account. One domain per scan. Results are kept for 24 hours and shared for the same address; up to 5 scans every 10 minutes and 20 a day.
What the registry knows about the domain
The expiry date and days left
When the current registration ends, and how many days that leaves. Inside 30 days it's a warning, inside 7 a problem: time to renew, or to check that auto-renew will really go through.
Hold, redemption and pending delete
Registry statuses that mean the domain has stopped working or is about to be released: on hold, in its redemption period after expiry, or pending deletion.
The transfer lock
For .com, .net, .org and other generic extensions: whether the lock that stops the domain being moved to another registrar is on. Without it, anyone who gets into your registrar account can take the domain away.
The registrar
Who the domain is registered through, so you know where to renew it, and every status the registry has set on it.
Registries that publish no date
Some registries (.de, .es, .it, .eu, .io and .ro among them) publish no expiry date over RDAP, and their WHOIS terms forbid automated lookups. For those the checker confirms the domain is still active in DNS, which an expired, held or deleted domain no longer is.
Straight from the registry
Each extension's registry is found through IANA's RDAP list and asked directly. No cached WHOIS copy, no reseller's database.
What one look can't do
The checker shows the registration as the registry has it today. It can't see your registrar account: whether auto-renew is on, whether the card on file still works, or whether the renewal reminders go to an inbox anyone reads.
Where a registry publishes no expiry date, it can only confirm the domain is still active. Your registrar's control panel has the date. The domain's owner, and personal contact details, aren't shown: registries hide most of them since the GDPR, and the checker doesn't ask for them.
And it's one look. Renewals fail quietly months from now. Relvato's Domain registration monitor reads the registry again on a schedule (daily on paid plans), warns you 30 days before the domain expires, and alerts you by email, Slack or webhook at once if the registry puts it on hold, starts deleting it or the transfer lock comes off.
Questions, answered
What happens when a domain expires?
The website and every email address on the domain stop working, usually within a day or two. Most extensions then give a grace period in which the owner can still renew, often followed by a redemption period that costs more. After that the domain is deleted and anyone can register it.
Why doesn't it show an expiry date for my .de or .es domain?
Those registries publish no expiry date over RDAP, and their WHOIS terms forbid automated lookups. The checker confirms the domain is still active in DNS instead, which still shows whether it has expired, been put on hold or been deleted. Your registrar shows the date.
Is this a WHOIS lookup?
It uses RDAP, the registries' structured replacement for WHOIS, which ICANN requires for generic extensions. It gives the same registration dates, registrar and statuses, in a form that can be read reliably. It doesn't show the owner's personal details.
My registrar auto-renews. Do I still need to check?
Auto-renew fails more often than it looks: an expired card, a closed billing email, a registrar account nobody logs into. Look again just after the renewal date: if it went through, the expiry date has moved on by a year or more.
What happens to the domains I check?
Relvato asks the domain's registry for its public registration data once (or public DNS resolvers, where the registry publishes no RDAP) and keeps the result for 24 hours, so the same address isn't looked up again. Nothing else about the scan is stored, and the site itself isn't contacted.
Know before your domain takes the site and your email down.
Relvato's Domain registration monitor reads your domain's registration from the registry and warns you a month before it expires, for any website, on any platform. On every plan, Free included: on Free you run it yourself or weekly; paid plans read it daily.