How it works
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See how far back it goes free, then preview the full trust report.
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When to run a check
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 estimate from the address's public footprint: the earliest breach exposure, plus profile and identity signals. A Gmail address that first appears online in 2013 existed by 2013 — that's a floor you can rely on.
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 appear heavily in older breach corpora, which often makes their earliest trace 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.
Everything in the $5 report
Why the age of an email matters
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 you see on the free check comes from the earliest date this address turns up in a corpus of known data breaches, via Have I Been Pwned. If an address was exposed in a breach from 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
Illustrative example with made-up data, not a real lookup.
How Check Email Age compares
| Tool | What it is | Best for | Pricing model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Check Email Age | Instant age check from public breach, 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.
Frequently asked questions
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