Compare many domains by Ahrefs Domain Rating without opening a new tab for every site.
Prioritize competitors, backlink prospects, and expired-domain candidates by authority.
Export DR scores to CSV and combine them with WHOIS age, renewal price, and spam checks.
What is an Ahrefs bulk domain rank checker?
An Ahrefs bulk domain rank checker is a workflow for comparing many websites by their Ahrefs Domain Rating (DR) in one pass. DR is a 0-100 authority metric that estimates the strength of a domain's backlink profile. A higher number usually means the site has earned links from more authoritative referring domains, while a lower number means the domain has limited link equity or has not been discovered strongly by the web graph.
This tool uses the already implemented Query.Domains DR API, which proxies Ahrefs' public free Domain Rating endpoint and caches results for a short period. Paste a prospect list, competitor set, expired-domain shortlist, outreach list, or portfolio export, then get a clean ranked table with CSV export. The goal is not to replace a full Ahrefs subscription. It is to give founders, SEOs, investors, and engineers a fast way to triage domain authority before they spend time on deeper backlink research.
The important keyword is bulk. Checking one domain at a time is fine for a single competitor, but it breaks down when you are comparing 30 SaaS competitors, 80 expired domains, or a marketplace watchlist. Bulk DR lookup turns that list into a ranked view so the strongest domains surface immediately.
How to use Ahrefs DR in SEO due diligence
Domain Rating is useful because it compresses a backlink profile into a single comparable number. That makes it good for prioritization, not final judgment. A DR 72 competitor is usually harder to outrank than a DR 18 blog, and a DR 55 expired domain deserves more inspection than a DR 4 name with no visible authority. But DR alone does not tell you whether links are relevant, clean, indexed, or likely to pass value to the pages you care about.
Use this checker as the first step in a three-step SEO review. First, run the bulk domain rank checker and sort by highest DR. Second, open the strongest domains in a backlink tool and inspect referring-domain quality, anchor text, link velocity, and topical relevance. Third, cross-check WHOIS age, expiry, DNS, and marketplace price using the other Query.Domains tools. A domain that looks strong in DR but has spam anchors, irrelevant language history, or a suspicious drop pattern should be treated cautiously.
- Competitor research: compare the authority gap between your site and the pages currently ranking for a keyword cluster.
- Expired domain investing: filter large lists before paying for auctions, backorders, or private outreach.
- Link prospecting: prioritize publishers and partners with enough authority to justify manual review.
- Portfolio cleanup: sort owned domains by DR before deciding which renewals are worth keeping.
How to interpret DR scores without fooling yourself
Ahrefs DR is logarithmic in practice: moving from DR 10 to DR 20 is much easier than moving from DR 70 to DR 80. That means a ten-point gap at the high end can represent a very large authority difference. In this interface, DR 80+ is labeled elite, DR 60-79 strong, DR 40-59 established, DR 20-39 emerging, and below DR 20 low authority. Those bands are intentionally practical. They help you scan a list quickly, but they are not a promise of rankings, traffic, or resale value.
A healthy SEO process keeps DR in context. A narrow niche site with DR 28 can outrank a DR 80 magazine for very specific long-tail queries if its content is better aligned with search intent. A DR 65 expired domain can be worthless if its links are all old, irrelevant, nofollowed, or toxic. A DR 0 new brand can still be the right purchase if the name is memorable and the business has a plan to earn links over time.
The best use of this page is comparative. If you paste 100 domains from the same market, the ranking tells you which names deserve deeper inspection first. If you paste unrelated domains, treat the output as a rough authority snapshot rather than a buy/no-buy decision.
Practical bulk workflows for marketers and domain buyers
For keyword research, paste the domains ranking on page one and page two for your target SERP. Sort by DR and compare the authority distribution. If every result is DR 80+, your content must be exceptional or highly differentiated. If several results are DR 20-40, there may be room for a focused, well-structured page to compete.
For outreach, paste the websites from a prospecting export. Remove obvious marketplaces, directories, and irrelevant hosts, then run the list. A high DR prospect is not automatically a good link, but low-DR noise can be deprioritized before a human spends time qualifying it. Add topical relevance, traffic estimates, and editorial quality before sending emails.
For domain acquisitions, paste names from an auction, drop list, or seller portfolio. Sort by DR descending, export CSV, then add columns for asking price, renewal price, domain age, spam risk, and brand fit. The best candidate is rarely the highest DR domain; it is the one with enough authority, clean history, relevant links, and a price that still makes sense after renewals.
Data freshness, limits, and accuracy
The underlying API accepts up to 100 domains per request and caches DR values for seven days because domain-level authority moves slowly. That cache keeps the checker fast and respectful of upstream limits. If Ahrefs is temporarily unavailable for a domain, the API returns a stale cached value when possible or no data when there is no usable value. A blank DR is not proof that a website has no links; it means the checker could not resolve a numeric score in that request.
Internationalized domains should be converted to punycode before checking. The current backend intentionally validates lightweight ASCII domains so the worker stays small and predictable. For root-domain comparisons, the input cleaner removes protocols, paths, query strings, and a leading www.. If you need URL-level metrics, use a full backlink crawler; this tool is domain-level by design.
Query.Domains is not affiliated with Ahrefs. Ahrefs and Domain Rating are Ahrefs product names and metrics. This page exists to make the already implemented free DR lookup easier to use in a bulk, SEO-friendly workflow.