: How do you monitor your own domain expiry? I'm currently managing several domains and find it a pain to keep track of those expiry dates and make sure they get renewed. What I do now is
I'm currently managing several domains and find it a pain to keep track of those expiry dates and make sure they get renewed. What I do now is to manually add those domains to a to-do manager with a reminder and check it say a month before expiry to remind myself (I do have auto-renew for some domains but not all).
If you have a better way to manage it, I'd be happy to hear about it. Thinking of solving my own problem by setting up a website to do it (if there is no better way). So here's a question: would you use such a web application where you just enter the domain names that you manage, and it will pull out the expiry automatically, adds a reminder say 2 months before expiry and keep reminding you till the whois record shows that it has been renewed?
This way I can be sure I won't miss any of those expiry dates. It is something I myself will use but would like to hear what you guys think? I found some online tools that does this but it doesn't seemed reliable or intuitive enough (e.g. advertisements all over).
Appreciate any inputs!
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Usually my web host service send me an email as a reminder. So there is no issue with this. I renew the domain in this case.
Most registrars will allow you set your domains to auto-renew. I highly recommend this for any significant domain you own. The cost of renewal is trivial compared to the time spent trying to get the domain restored.
If you want monitoring, just search for domain expiration monitoring or whois monitoring. Many companies provide both domain expiration monitoring, whois histories and more.
I use this domain check script which I run from a cron job. It will send me email when domains are about to expire: prefetch.net/code/domain-check
I also run this similar ssl certificate check script: prefetch.net/code/ssl-cert-check It performs the same function, but for SSL certificates.
My registrars have always sent me notices when a domain is going to expire but to be safe I have also used my gmail account and added the expire dates there as well. Google will send me an SMS as well as the event showing on my cell phone's calendar. You can set up multiple notifications too. I only have a two week notice but you could do 2 weeks, 1 week and 24 hours (if you like to cut it short).
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