Enter a domain name and get its Wayback archive, spam and blacklist records, DR and Trust Flow, the sites that link to it and its anchor texts in one report. It takes about a minute.
The domain checker runs the same review we apply to every domain on our list on the name you enter. You don't open six sources and compare them yourself; you read the result with its score and the reasons behind it.
We read Wayback Machine captures spread from the first year to the last: which years the site was live, what its title and language were, whether it turned into a parked or for-sale page along the way, and whether its topic changed.
Gambling, pharma and adult content patterns (including Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Korean), spam URLs, and Spamhaus DBL and SURBL listings.
Ahrefs Domain Rating, Majestic Trust Flow and Citation Flow, Moz DA, referring domains and Open PageRank, all measured at the time of the check.
We list the strongest sites linking to the domain and its most common anchor texts. You see what share of the anchors is spam and what share is written in a foreign script, plus which topics the linking sites are about (topical trust).
Does the name contain a known brand, and does Google still have pages from this domain in its index? Neither decides anything alone; both appear in the report as warnings.
Is the domain registered right now, with which registrar and until when, or is it available at the normal registration price? Read from the registry's own record (RDAP).
Expired, in an auction, one you are negotiating for, or your own: any name works. It does not have to be on our list.
Archive captures, blacklists, authority metrics and the backlink list are fetched one after another. Most checks finish in a minute or two, and the page opens by itself when the report is ready.
You get a 0–100 Hunter score, its breakdown and a clear verdict. The report stays in your account; reopening the same domain within 7 days does not use a check.
A domain with a DR of 50 may have spent two years as a gambling site, been taken over by Japanese spam, or been inflated by a link network. The report reads the metrics together with the history and gives one of three verdicts, using the same rules as our daily scan.
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If you want to run the checks by hand: How to Check Domain History: 6 Free Checks Before You Buy, Expired Domain Spam History: 9 Signs to Look For, Domain Reputation Check: Spamhaus, SURBL and Safe Browsing, Expired Domain Checker: 12 Checks Before You Buy
It reads the Wayback Machine archive of the domain you enter across the years and looks for gambling, pharma and adult content and for parked periods. It measures Ahrefs Domain Rating, Majestic Trust Flow and Citation Flow, Moz DA, referring domains and Open PageRank. It lists the strongest sites linking to the domain and its most common anchor texts, and checks the Spamhaus DBL and SURBL blacklists, the Google index and known brand names. It ends with a 0–100 Hunter score and a verdict.
Usually a minute or two. Most of that time goes to reading past captures from archive.org; when the archive is busy the queue can stretch by a few minutes. The page opens the report by itself when it is ready, and the report is kept in your account.
Everyone with an account gets their first check free, no card needed. Hunter Pro includes 30 checks every month. If you don't want a subscription, a one-time pack of 10 checks costs $4.99, and the checks in a pack never expire.
Any domain: expired, in an auction, pending delete, one you are thinking of buying from someone, or your own. It does not have to be on our list. Archive and backlink data do not depend on the extension; registration status is shown only for extensions whose registry offers RDAP (such as .com, .net, .org, .io, .co, .de, .uk, .fr and .nl).
It means we would have rejected the domain had it come up in our daily scan. The report states why: a spam period in the archive, a blacklist entry, a very short or empty history, a weak trust profile, spam anchor texts and so on. The verdict is a recommendation; you read the report and make the final call.
No. Nobody can see Google's manual actions or algorithmic penalties from the outside; only the domain's owner sees them in Search Console. The report gives indirect signals: whether pages are still indexed, whether there was a spam period, whether the link profile looks natural. Check Search Console yourself after you get the domain.
No. If the same domain is requested again within 7 days, the existing report opens and no check is used. If a check cannot be completed for a technical reason, it is not counted either.
No. hunter.domains does not sell domains; it gives you the report. If the domain is available, the report links to a registrar; if it is in an auction, you bid on the auction site.
Fixing a domain with a bad history takes months; checking it takes a minute.
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