Check how old any email address is

Get the exact age, down to the month and the date it goes back to. Free, with no signup.

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How to check the age of an email address

Enter the address in the checker above. You get its age in years, months and days, and the date it goes back to. It's free and takes a few seconds.

  1. Enter the email address you want to check.

  2. See its exact age for free, then preview the full trust report.

  3. Unlock everything for $5 and download your report.

Find out when an email address was created

Email providers don't show anyone when an address was set up. What we can find is the earliest date the address was in use online. The address was created on or before that date, so it is the closest thing to a creation date anyone outside the provider can give you.

The free check shows that date next to the age in years, months and days, so you can see how long an address has existed, or been active, before you trust it.

When to run a check

Suspicious email? Check if an email is a scam A stranger, a "buyer", a match, a recruiter — see how far back their address goes and whether it's a throwaway before you reply. Email scam checker → Invoice to pay? Verify the sender before paying Lookalike domains and freshly registered senders are how invoice fraud works. Check the address before money moves. Verify an invoice email → Vetting someone? Keep a record of the check Renting out, lending, taking a big order — run a $5 first-pass check and download the dated report for your file. Due-diligence check →
ANY ADDRESS, ANY DOMAIN

Email providers we check

Check Email Age works with any valid email address — from the big free webmail services to privacy-first inboxes, regional providers and custom business domains. If a domain can send and receive mail, we can look up its age, its records and its reputation.

Free webmail

Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud and the other major consumer inboxes.

Business & custom domains

Any address on your own domain — name@yourcompany.com — checked against live WHOIS and DNS.

Privacy & regional

Proton, Tuta, Fastmail, GMX, Yandex and other specialist services worldwide.

Disposable & temporary

Throwaway providers aren't just checked — they're recognised and flagged.

  • Gmail gmail.com
  • Outlook outlook.com · hotmail.com · live.com
  • Yahoo Mail yahoo.com · ymail.com
  • iCloud Mail icloud.com · me.com · mac.com
  • Proton Mail proton.me · protonmail.com
  • AOL Mail aol.com
  • Zoho Mail zoho.com · zohomail.com
  • GMX gmx.com · gmx.net
  • Yandex Mail yandex.com · yandex.ru
  • Fastmail fastmail.com
  • Tuta tuta.com · tutanota.com
  • Mail.com mail.com

…and every custom domain in between. If an address can receive email, Check Email Age can check how far back it goes.

Gmail age checker

Google doesn't publish when a Gmail account was created, so we date the address from the earliest point it can be found in use online. A Gmail address in use in 2013 existed by 2013, which is a date you can rely on. For Gmail on its own, use the Gmail age checker.

Outlook & Hotmail age checker

Works for outlook.com, hotmail.com and live.com addresses alike. Long-lived Hotmail addresses often carry the deepest visible history of any provider — some trace back to the 1990s.

Yahoo Mail age checker

Yahoo addresses often have a long, well-recorded history online, which usually makes their earliest date unusually precise. We check yahoo.com and ymail.com addresses the same way.

iCloud Mail age checker

icloud.com, me.com and mac.com addresses are checked against the same public sources. The me.com and mac.com suffixes are themselves age signals — Apple stopped issuing them years ago, so an address using one predates that cutoff.

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Everything in the $5 report

Online history
Where and when this email has appeared online, and what kind of data was involved (data from Have I Been Pwned).
Domain age
When the email's domain was registered. Domains created days ago are a classic scam signal.
Email setup
Whether the domain is configured like a real sender (mail records, SPF, DMARC) or barely set up at all.
Linked identity
Any public profile and verified social accounts tied to the address.
Disposable check
Whether it's a throwaway or temporary address used to dodge accountability.
Trust verdict
A plain-English Low, Medium or High rating, with the reasons behind it.

Checking more than one?

Reports cost less when you get them together. Check each address, then buy the reports as one from the bar under your results.

1 report $5 $5 each
2 reports $8 $4 each
3 reports $10 $3.33 each
Best value 5 reports $15 $3 each

Why the age of an email matters

Email age is how long an email address has been in use, counted from the earliest date it can be found online. An address in use since 2012 is at least that old.

A brand-new email address is one of the most reliable warning signs in online fraud. Scammers burn through fresh addresses fast, because the old ones get reported and blocked. So when someone asks you to send money, pay a deposit, or click a link, the history behind their email tells you a lot about who you're really dealing with.

Checking an email address gives you context a name and a logo can't. An address tied to a domain registered a decade ago, with a long online trail and a real linked identity, behaves nothing like one on a domain registered last week with no history at all. This tool surfaces that gap so you can spot it before you act.

Age is one signal, not a verdict. Pair it with the domain age, email setup and identity checks in the full report, and you get a clear picture of whether an email is safe to trust.

How we estimate age

No email provider publishes when an inbox was created, so this tool builds an estimate from signals that actually exist publicly, and says plainly how confident that estimate is.

Earliest online appearance. The headline age on the free check comes from the earliest date this address can be found in use online. If it was in use in 2014, it existed by 2014 at the latest.

Domain registration date. Shown alongside the headline number, this is the domain's public registration record. A personal address on a long-established provider inherits that provider's history; a custom domain carries its own.

Mail setup maturity (full report). Whether the domain has properly configured mail records, like SPF and DMARC, is a further signal of how long a domain has been run as a genuine mail sender rather than spun up for one campaign.

Every figure here is a floor, not a ceiling: the address is at least this old, possibly older. We say so directly rather than implying false precision.

See it in action

Example report for a sample address, with the same checks and layout as yours.

How Check Email Age compares

If you have looked at the IPQS email age checker or Emailage, this is how they differ from this tool.

Tool What it is Best for Pricing model
Check Email Age Instant age check from online history, domain and identity signals, with a full trust report and downloadable PDF. Individuals and small operators who need one answer now — and sometimes a record of it. Free check, $5 one-time report, no signup
IPQS Enterprise fraud-prevention platform whose free tools front an API and account signup. Fraud and risk teams integrating email scoring into their own systems. Free tier with account, usage-based plans
Emailage (LexisNexis) Enterprise email-risk scoring built on consortium transaction data. Banks and large merchants scoring transactions at volume. Enterprise contract

Comparison reflects each provider's public positioning as of July 2026 — corrections welcome via the contact page. All trademarks belong to their owners.

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