# `young_domain`: the domain was registered under 30 days ago

The registry's RDAP record puts the registration less than 30 days back — the age of a domain set up for one campaign.

- Weight: +30
- Dataset: rdap-registration
- Read from: `domain_age_days`
- Verdict reasons it comes with: none — a score-only signal

Registration facts are read for business domains only, never for free providers or burners, and cached a week. Under 30 days this weight applies; from 30 to 179 days the new_domain weight of 10 applies instead. The two are exclusive, and an older or unknown age carries nothing.

It reads from domain_age_days and comes with no verdict reason of its own: a young domain can be a perfectly real startup.

**What to do.** Read it with the rest: young plus no SPF plus a gibberish username is a pattern; young alone is a new company.

```json
{
    "email": "mia@newstartup.example",
    "deliverable": "deliverable",
    "domain_registered_at": "2026-09-01",
    "domain_age_days": 12,
    "risk_signals": [
        {
            "signal": "young_domain",
            "weight": 30,
            "dataset": "rdap-registration"
        }
    ]
}
```

Reference: https://spaw.co/docs/signals/young_domain