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Check Domain Age

Determine when a domain was first registered to assess its maturity, trustworthiness, and SEO value.

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Domain age is a widely used trust signal across the internet. Search engines, email providers, and security tools all factor domain age into their assessments. A domain registered yesterday that sends bulk email gets flagged as spam. A domain with 15 years of continuous registration carries inherent authority. For SEO, older domains tend to have stronger backlink profiles and established authority.

The lookup_domain skill retrieves the original creation date for any domain, letting you calculate its exact age. This is valuable for SEO analysis (assessing domain authority potential), security evaluation (new domains are more suspicious), domain investment (age adds value), and competitive research (understanding how long competitors have been established). A simple data point that informs decisions across multiple contexts.

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Claude

  1. Connect ToolRouter: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Ask Claude: "Check the age of this domain using whois-rdap"
  3. Claude returns the creation date and calculated age
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ChatGPT

  1. Configure ToolRouter in ChatGPT
  2. Ask: "How old is this domain?" and provide the domain name
  3. ChatGPT returns the registration date and age
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Copilot

  1. Add ToolRouter to Copilot MCP config
  2. In Copilot Chat: "Check the age of this domain using whois-rdap"
  3. Copilot returns the creation date and domain age
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OpenClaw

  1. Connect ToolRouter: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Ask OpenClaw: "Check how old this domain is"
  3. OpenClaw returns the registration date and age
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