Why this site exists

I kept needing domain rating data for my own web projects, and I kept running into the same wall. The numbers I wanted sat behind subscriptions priced for agencies, billed monthly, and charged by the lookup. For a handful of projects that each needed a few hundred thousand domains scored once a month, that never added up.

So I built the thing I wanted. An independent rating, worked out over a link index of my own, refreshed every month, and sold the way I wanted to buy it: one flat yearly fee for the whole dataset as files, with no charge per lookup and no counting people. If you need ten thousand numbers, the checker on the front page is free. If you need all of them, you can have all of them.

What it is useful for

  • • Sorting a large list of domains by how well known they are, before anyone spends time on it.
  • • Scoring possible link partners, guest post offers or directory listings in bulk rather than one at a time.
  • • Filtering expired and auction domain lists down to the ones worth a closer look.
  • • Filling out a CRM, a marketplace listing or a lead list with a sense of how big each company's web presence is.
  • • Watching how a set of domains moves month to month, using the older releases as a starting point rather than starting from today.
  • • Research and modelling where you need a full, steady picture of the web rather than whatever an API will let you sample.
James Andrews

Who runs it

James Andrews

I have been creating, growing and selling SaaS businesses since 2009, across online gaming, marketing tools for clothing and Amazon FBA, and most recently land investing. I have also led the engineering team at a fast growing Inc. 500 company.

I hold a Bachelors degree in Physics and a Masters degree in Mathematics, the CASP+ cybersecurity certification, and a Graduate Certificate in Data Science from Harvard Extension School.

CheckDomainRating.com is owned and operated by Two Phase, LLC, a Wyoming company.

How I intend to run it

  • • One price, published. $125 a month for the whole dataset. No quote to ask for, no charge per person, no counting lookups.
  • • A monthly release, every month. Each one covers every domain we rate, not a sample, and the older ones stay available.
  • • Files, not just an API. You get parquet you can load into whatever you already use. The API hands your job a download link, and looks up individual ratings when you want one number rather than the file. Neither is charged per domain.
  • • Nothing recorded about what you look up. The checker and the browser extension keep no record of the domains you ask about. The policy is here.
See what the data includes Read the FAQ

Questions, or want something the site does not do yet? [email protected].