Domain Tools

Free, fast tools for everything around domain names — WHOIS lookup, age and expiry checks, bulk availability, DNS and email diagnostics, registrar price comparison, and brandable name generation. No signup, no throttling on first results, real registry data.

1000+ TLDs supported Live registry data No signup required Free forever

Which tool should I use?

Several tools cover overlapping problems. Use this quick decision guide to pick the right one for your job.

"I want to know who owns a domain"

Start with the homepage WHOIS lookup. If you need the registration date specifically, use Domain Age Checker. For expiration and renewal status, use Domain Expiry Checker.

"I want to find a domain to register"

If you have a brand idea, run it through Domain Name Generator. If you want a specific name across many TLDs, use Bulk Domain Search. If price is the main constraint, use Cheap Domain Finder or compare TLDs with TLD Price Comparison.

"I want to know if an expired domain is grabbable"

Use Expired Domain Checker. It reads EPP status codes (redemptionPeriod, pendingDelete, autoRenewPeriod) and estimates the public drop date, so you know whether to wait, contact the owner, or pursue a backorder.

"I want to evaluate a domain I'm thinking of buying"

Run Domain Value Checker for an appraisal-style signal score. Cross-check the age and history with Domain Age Checker, and use the Wayback Machine to inspect prior content.

"I'm setting up email or troubleshooting deliverability"

Use Email Domain Checker for an SPF + DKIM + DMARC scorecard. Pair it with Domain To IP to verify MX hosts resolve correctly.

"I'm doing a security review of a domain"

Map the attack surface with Subdomain Finder (Certificate Transparency logs), check email auth posture with Email Domain Checker, and verify DNS hosting with Domain To IP.

Built for engineers, founders, and domain investors

Most "domain tool" sites are thin lead-generators for a registrar. Search for a name, see the result, and the only buttons take you straight to a checkout page that quietly upsells privacy, email, SSL, and a five-year renewal. The data is correct but the experience is designed to convert, not to inform.

Query.Domains takes the opposite approach. Every tool here is built to answer a single, well-defined question with the cleanest data we can pull from authoritative sources — registry WHOIS/RDAP servers, Certificate Transparency logs, DNS-over-HTTPS resolvers, and registrar price feeds. Where there's ambiguity (DKIM probing, lifecycle estimates, value scoring), we say so explicitly instead of pretending certainty.

How the data flows

  • WHOIS & RDAP — registration dates, expiry, registrar, status codes, and nameservers come from the authoritative registry server for each TLD via an HMAC-signed proxy. No third-party cache or scraped Google results.
  • Bulk availability — checked over a streaming SSE pipeline so you see results as soon as each TLD answers, not after the slowest one finishes.
  • DNS lookups — resolved through Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS-over-HTTPS with the application/dns-json content type. Reflects what an open resolver sees, not your local caching.
  • Subdomain discovery — pulled from crt.sh's public Certificate Transparency aggregator. We deduplicate certificates and surface first-seen and last-seen dates per name.
  • Pricing — fetched from the same WHOIS endpoint with return-prices=true, which surfaces real-time first-year and renewal prices across registrars. We compare wholesale-style.
  • Email auth — MX, SPF, DMARC, and best-effort DKIM probes (common selectors for the detected provider) are graded on a 0–100 scale. We tell you when DKIM might exist on a non-standard selector.

What we won't do

We won't sell you privacy add-ons. We won't dark-pattern you into a five-year renewal. We won't pretend a domain has a $4,800 sale price because some appraisal API said so — domain value is fundamentally illiquid and our value tool gives you a signal score with the methodology spelled out, not a fake dollar figure. We won't gate the second result behind a signup wall.

Open methodology

For tools that involve scoring or estimation (value checker, expired domain lifecycle estimate, email grade), we publish the exact weights and decision rules on each tool page. If you disagree with a weighting, you can adjust your interpretation; you're not stuck with a black box.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are these tools really free?

Yes. Every tool on Query.Domains is free, no signup, no rate limit on your first dozen lookups, and no upsell to a paid tier. We make money only when someone clicks through to a registrar to register a name. You can use the tools without ever clicking that link.

Where does the data come from?

WHOIS and RDAP data comes from the authoritative registry server for each TLD. DNS comes from Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS-over-HTTPS. Subdomain discovery comes from public Certificate Transparency logs via crt.sh. Pricing comes from real-time registrar feeds. None of the tools rely on cached search-engine results or scraped data.

Why do you have multiple tools that look similar (e.g. price comparison vs cheap domain finder)?

Each tool answers a different question. TLD Price Comparison compares the same kind of name across different TLDs (".com vs .ai vs .xyz"). Cheap Domain Finder picks the cheapest TLD for a specific label you have in mind. Bulk Domain Search tells you which TLDs are even available for that label. They share infrastructure but are tuned for different intents.

How accurate is the data?

WHOIS, RDAP, DNS, and CT log data are direct queries — they're as accurate as the source. The estimation tools (domain value score, lifecycle drop date) are documented heuristics; we publish their weights and assumptions on each tool page so you can judge them yourself. We never present a heuristic estimate as a hard fact.

Can I use the tools in bulk or via an API?

The bulk search tool already handles dozens of TLDs in one go. For programmatic access (registering a few thousand domains, monitoring expirations across a portfolio, or integrating with your registrar workflow), our underlying API is documented separately — contact us for credentials.

Do you log my queries?

We log aggregated traffic for capacity planning and abuse prevention (request count per IP, error rates, popular TLDs). We do not store the queried domains tied to your identity, and we do not sell or share lookup data with third parties.

Why is one of my queries slow or erroring?

A few possibilities: the registry WHOIS server may be rate-limiting (especially for ccTLDs under privacy regulation), crt.sh may be temporarily overloaded (we surface a clear error in that case), or your domain may not be a valid registrable name. Try again, or check the network tab for the underlying error message.

How are you different from WhoisXML, ICANN Lookup, or DomainTools?

ICANN Lookup is the canonical truth source for WHOIS but stops at WHOIS — no bulk, no DNS, no email auth, no pricing, no lifecycle interpretation. WhoisXML and DomainTools are excellent enterprise products that gate most useful features behind a paid tier. Query.Domains keeps the everyday tools free and presents them with opinionated, engineer-readable interpretation rather than raw fields.

Can I embed these tools on my own site?

The tools themselves are not embeddable, but anyone working on a domain-related product is welcome to integrate against our underlying API. Reach out for credentials and rate limit accommodations.

Need a one-shot WHOIS lookup?

The homepage handles single-domain WHOIS, RDAP, real-time availability, and registrar price quotes in one search box. Each focused tool below builds on top of that engine.

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