---
title: Every listing now shows its registration age, and soon its type-in traffic
url: https://namegarage.com/blog/registration-age-and-type-in-traffic
author: Namegarage
date: '2026-09-07'
description: Every domain page now states when a name was first registered and how
  old it is. Names that draw visits on their own will show how many, once a month
  of measurements exists on every one of our servers. Here is what the numbers mean
  and how they are counted.
---

# Every listing now shows its registration age, and soon its type-in traffic

Two facts about a domain matter to a buyer before price does: how long it
has existed, and whether anyone visits it on its own. The first now
appears on the sales site and the second will follow; both come from
sources we control rather than from a third-party estimate.

## Registration age

Every domain page carries a line like **Registered 2004 · 22 years**. The
year comes from the registrar's own record of the name; where a registrar
does not publish one, it comes from the public registry data for the
domain. The age is the number of completed years since that date. A name
that has been continuously registered for two decades has a history that
search engines and buyers treat differently from one registered last
spring, and now you can see it without looking it up.

## Type-in traffic

Some names get visits on their own: people who type the name into the
address bar, follow an old bookmark or a link that still points at it, or
click it in a search result. That is the most valuable kind of traffic a
domain carries by itself, and it is also the hardest to measure honestly,
because most tools estimate it. We do not estimate it. Every name in this
portfolio resolves to our own servers, so a visit to the name reaches us
before it is redirected to its listing, and we count it there. Each day we
count, per domain, how many distinct addresses arrived, after removing
what we can recognise as crawlers, vulnerability scanners, and anything
that probes many names at once. We call the result type-in visits, the
usual name for traffic a domain carries by itself. An address is not a
person, no filter catches every bot, and we cannot tell a typed address
from a bookmark or a stale link; what we can say is that every one of
these visits reached the name directly, not through this site, and that
the count is measured, not modelled.

The figure you will see reads **N type-in visits in the last 30 days**. It
appears only when three things hold:

- there are at least 30 such visits in the window, so a handful of
  accidental hits never becomes a claim;
- the window is complete: a daily count exists for every one of the 30
  days on every one of our servers. A day that was not measured withholds
  the figure entirely. A server that was briefly down on a measured day
  still counts, so an outage lowers the figure rather than withholding it;
- the measurement is recent: a figure older than 45 days is dropped rather
  than shown stale.

Because the window must be complete, the traffic line appears only once a
full month of measurements exists on every one of our servers; we will
say so here when it does. Names below the threshold simply show nothing,
which is the honest answer.

## What we do not do

Visitors are counted, not tracked. No cookie is set, no script runs on the
visitor's side, and the addresses that reach our servers never leave them;
only the daily counts do. The numbers exist so you can judge a name, not so
we can follow the people who typed it.