Status and WHOIS
Active, expiring or available to register. Creation date, expiry date, registrar, redemptionPeriod / pendingDelete statuses.
Domain health check: is this domain clean, expired or risky?
A 0-100 health score in seconds: WHOIS status, site history, blocklists, detailed backlinks, keywords and estimated traffic. Free, no sign-up.
- Active, expired or available
- Site history
- Blocklists & malware
- Authority & popularity
- Backlinks & toxic anchors
- DNS, email and web security
- Typosquatting & extensions
- Topic & keywords
Latest analyses
What DomaineScore checks on a domain name
Site history
Archived years, gaps, language changes and risky content (casino, pharmacy, adult, counterfeit) spotted in old snapshots. How to read a domain's history
Blocklists and security
Domain and IP blocklists used by mail servers, phishing and malware lists, browser warnings, antivirus consensus and a scan of the current content: a blacklisted or toxic domain can never be "clean", its score is capped. Blacklisted domain: what to do
Backlinks and anchor text
Referring domains, monthly curve since 2019, top 20 links in detail (page, anchor, dofollow, spam) and above all the anchors: commercial anchors unrelated to the site (cbd, casino, link selling) give away an expired domain bought back and spammed. Spot toxic anchors
Authority, keywords and traffic
Recomputed PageRank, global popularity rankings, indexed pages, ranking keywords (top 3, top 10), estimated organic traffic and visibility history: an old, well-linked site that is invisible in Google is flagged as probably filtered.
Domain re-registered after expiry
Recent creation date but old archives? The name was deleted then registered again. Combined with an offline site and off-topic links, that is the profile of a drop exploited by a reseller. Understand re-registrations
Technical security
DNSSEC, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, BIMI, HSTS preload, HTTP security headers graded A+ to F, TLS certificates, antivirus reputation and malware lists. Domain security guide
Topic and keywords
Subject and vocabulary of the current site and its archives, language, technologies used (CMS, e-commerce). A complete change of topic over time is flagged.
Typosquatting and other extensions
Typo variants already registered and availability of the name in .com, .net, .org… to protect a brand or value a name. Typosquatting guide
DNS, hosting and parking
Does the domain resolve? Parking page? Host, country and CDN of the IP, mail configured (MX, SPF)?
A report adapted to the type of domain, in 10 to 20 seconds
DomaineScore first identifies the domain: live site, expired or offline domain with a past, or never-used name. A live site is measured from every angle (traffic, indexing, security, links). An expired domain keeps the full analysis of its history, reputation and link profile, which is what a purchase decision depends on. A fresh name gets a report focused on availability, neighbouring extensions and typosquatting. During the analysis, each step is shown live with its result.
Who is it for?
Buying an expired domain
Sort lists of expired domains in seconds and rule out the ones with a toxic past before you bid. Guide: buying an expired domain
SEO and link building
Check a site before a link exchange, a sponsored post or a 301 redirect. Guide: checking backlinks
Is a website legit?
Real age, history, blocklists: the first signals before you buy or hand over your data. Check if a website is legit
Starting a site or a business
Find a free name in .com and 13 other extensions, with ideas of variants. Check domain availability
Emails landing in spam
Check the records that authenticate your emails and the errors to fix. Test SPF, DKIM and DMARC
Who runs a domain?
Creation and expiry dates, registrar, status and name servers, straight from the registry. Free WHOIS lookup
Frequently asked questions
How do I know if a domain name is clean?
A clean domain is on no blocklist, has a consistent archive history (same language, same topic, no casino or pharma pages), natural backlinks and a stable registration. DomaineScore checks these five points and sums them up in a score from 0 to 100.
How can I check whether a domain is available or expired?
The RDAP status (the successor of WHOIS) tells you whether the domain is active, expiring (redemptionPeriod, pendingDelete) or free. It is shown at the top of every report, with the creation and expiry dates.
Is the tool really free?
Yes: no sign-up, no subscription. A daily limit of new reports per IP address protects the service; reports already in cache are unlimited.
What data is used?
Seven families of signals: official registry data (dates, statuses, registrar), DNS (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, DNSSEC), a real HTTP request to the site, public web archives and TLS certificate logs, several blocklists (domains, IPs, phishing, malware) and antivirus consensus, a backlink index (referring domains, anchors, top 20 links, monthly curve), authority and popularity (recomputed PageRank, global rankings, measured traffic), and Google ranking data (keywords, estimated traffic, visibility history). We do not publish the list of data providers. The topic and keywords of the site, current and past, are extracted from the page content.
Why can a domain with many backlinks get a poor score?
Because the anchors of those links are compared with the topic of the site: thousands of "cbd" or "casino" links pointing to a former gaming blog reveal paid link building after the domain was bought back. Google filters these links and they count against the domain.
Is an expired domain with no live site fully analysed?
Yes. As soon as a past exists (web archives, TLS certificates, age), the history, reputation and full link profile are analysed. Only current traffic and indexing, which make no sense for an offline site, are marked as not measured.
Can I rely on the score to buy an expired domain?
The score is a fast, reliable filter to rule out toxic domains. Before a significant purchase, also read the archives yourself and run a full backlink audit.
For the weighting details, see how the score is calculated.