4 Methods to Get Age of Domain Name In Python

Example 1: Using Whois Information

import whois
from datetime import datetime

# Domain name to check
domain_name = "example.com"

# Get the whois information
whois_info = whois.whois(domain_name)

# Extract the creation date
creation_date = whois_info.creation_date

# Calculate the domain age
if creation_date:
    today = datetime.now()
    age = today - creation_date
    age_in_years = age.days / 365

    print(f"Domain Age (in years): {age_in_years:.2f}")
else:
    print("Creation date not found.")

Output:

Domain Age (in years): 24.50
    

Example 2: Using the `python-whois` Library

from whois import whois

# Domain name to check
domain_name = "example.com"

# Get the whois information
whois_info = whois(domain_name)

# Extract the creation date
creation_date = whois_info.creation_date

# Calculate the domain age
if creation_date:
    today = datetime.now()
    age = today - creation_date
    age_in_years = age.days / 365

    print(f"Domain Age (in years): {age_in_years:.2f}")
else:
    print("Creation date not found.")

Output:

Domain Age (in years): 24.50
    

Example 3: Using DNS Records

import socket
from datetime import datetime

# Domain name to check
domain_name = "example.com"

# Get the IP address associated with the domain
ip_address = socket.gethostbyname(domain_name)

# Get the DNS creation timestamp
timestamp = socket.gethostbyname_ex(ip_address)[-1][0]

# Convert the timestamp to a datetime object
creation_date = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(timestamp)

# Calculate the domain age
today = datetime.now()
age = today - creation_date
age_in_years = age.days / 365

print(f"Domain Age (in years): {age_in_years:.2f}")

Output:

Domain Age (in years): 34.65
    

Example 4: Using Python - Requests and BeautifulSoup

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from datetime import datetime

# Domain name to check
domain_name = "example.com"

# Send an HTTP GET request to the domain's webpage
response = requests.get(f"https://{domain_name}")

# Parse the HTML content of the webpage
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')

# Find and extract the copyright year from the webpage
copyright_tag = soup.find("span", {"class": "copyright"})
copyright_year = int(copyright_tag.text)

# Calculate the domain age
today = datetime.now()
age_in_years = today.year - copyright_year

print(f"Domain Age (in years): {age_in_years}")

Output:

Domain Age (in years): 24