When a domain registration expires, everything on it stops: the website, the email, the API, the links in every invoice you ever sent. Renewal reminders from the registrar go to an inbox that belonged to someone who left, a card on file has expired, auto-renew was switched off during a transfer. It happens to well-run companies every week.
Domain monitoring in Uptimecheck looks up the registration expiry date twice a day and reminds you while there is time to act. Our article on protecting your online presence with domain monitoring explains what else can go wrong.
What you get
- Expiry date and days left for every domain.
- Reminders to your alert channels 30, 14, 7 and 1 day before expiry, and on the day.
- Domains that expire within 14 days, listed under Needs attention on the overview.
- One list across registrars, projects and clients.
- SPF, DKIM and DMARC checked twice a day, with ready-to-paste DNS records, and your own mail servers looked up on blocklists. See email authentication monitoring.
Who needs it most
Agencies
You manage client domains you did not register, in accounts you may not control. Track all of them in Uptimecheck, grouped per client project, and warn the client before their domain lapses.
Online stores
A lapsed domain is not a slow checkout, it is no checkout. Every minute offline is lost revenue, and getting a domain back after it lapses can take days. Order confirmations stop arriving at the same moment.
Companies with many brands
Country domains, campaign domains and old brand names that still redirect. The forgotten ones are the ones that lapse.
The domain, the records and the certificate
A working domain needs three things: a valid registration, correct DNS records and a valid certificate. Uptimecheck watches all three in one account. Use DNS monitoring to get alerted when an A, MX or NS record changes, a common sign of a hijacked or misconfigured domain, and SSL monitoring on your HTTPS monitors for certificate expiry.
Why renewal emails are not enough
Registrars do send reminders. They go to the email address on the account, which is often a former employee, a shared mailbox nobody reads or a client contact who changed jobs. Auto-renew fails silently when a card expires. Monitoring puts the expiry date in front of the team that would be hurt by it, in the channel they already watch.
What to do when a reminder arrives
- Check who owns the registrar account and that you can log in.
- Confirm auto-renew is on and the payment method is valid.
- Renew for more than one year for domains that matter.
- Turn on registrar lock to make unauthorised transfers harder.
Domains you forgot you own
Old campaign domains, country variants and former brand names often still redirect to your main site or receive email. When one of them lapses, someone else can register it and receive whatever is still sent there. List every domain you own, not only the main one, and decide on purpose which ones to keep and which to let go.
Start includes 10 domains, Professional 50 and Business 150. Plans start at €9 per month billed yearly or €12 billed monthly, excl. VAT; see the pricing page for all limits, or start a 14-day free trial without a card.