Domain Expiry Tracker: Never Miss a Renewal Again

Automated daily checks and staged email alerts for every domain you own — across every registrar, in one dashboard.

A domain expiry tracker monitors your domains' renewal dates automatically and alerts you before they lapse. DomainOwl checks every domain daily via RDAP and emails you at 60, 30, 14, 7, 3, and 1 day before expiry, plus a weekly digest — so nothing renews late by accident.

Six checkpoints between you and a missed renewal.

Most missed renewals happen because a single reminder email got buried or a domain sat in a registrar account nobody checks anymore. A domain expiry tracker fixes this by refreshing every domain's status daily via RDAP and firing alerts at six separate points before expiry, not one.

  • Automated daily RDAP refresh — no manual WHOIS lookups
  • Email alerts at 60/30/14/7/3/1 days before expiry
  • Weekly portfolio digest even if you don't open the app
  • Works across every registrar — no login or integration required

Alert schedule

60 days before expiry Email sent
30 days before expiry Email sent
14 days before expiry Email sent
7 days before expiry Email sent
3 days before expiry Email sent
1 day before expiry Email sent
Every dayRDAP status refresh

How automated expiry tracking works

1

Add your domains

Enter a domain manually, or bulk-import your whole portfolio as a CSV. Either way, no registrar login is required to get started.

2

RDAP checks run daily

Every domain gets refreshed once a day against the registry's own RDAP record — the same authoritative source registrars themselves query, not a scraped or cached guess.

3

Alerts fire on a fixed schedule

Six checkpoints — 60, 30, 14, 7, 3, and 1 day before expiry — each trigger their own email, so a single missed notification doesn't mean a missed renewal.

4

A weekly digest backs it up

Even if every daily alert somehow gets buried, a weekly portfolio digest summarizes what's expiring across your entire domain list.

Why RDAP, not WHOIS

For years, domain tools checked expiry status through WHOIS — a decades-old, loosely structured protocol with inconsistent formatting across registries. As of January 2025, ICANN fully sunset WHOIS in favor of RDAP (the Registration Data Access Protocol) as the authoritative lookup standard for gTLD registration data. DomainOwl's daily checks already run on RDAP, so every expiry date and status you see reflects the current registry record in a standardized format — not a best-effort parse of an inconsistent legacy protocol.

What actually happens if a renewal is missed

A missed alert doesn't mean an instant loss — but the clock that starts is expensive to stop. Per ICANN's Expired Registration Recovery Policy, every gTLD registry must offer a Redemption Grace Period of roughly 30 days after deletion during which the domain can still be restored — at a penalty fee that typically runs $80–$200+ on top of the normal renewal price. Before that, there's a grace period of up to 45 days where renewal is still available at the normal price with no penalty at all. Catching an alert in that first window, rather than the redemption period, is the difference between a normal renewal and a $100+ recovery fee.

If you'd rather see renewal costs coming before they're due at all, the renewal calendar and 90-day cash-flow forecast lay out every upcoming renewal on a timeline, alongside the expiry alerts described here.

Frequently asked questions

How does expiry monitoring actually work?

Every domain gets an automated daily RDAP refresh. You get email alerts at 60, 30, 14, 7, 3, and 1 day before expiry, plus a weekly portfolio digest — so a renewal never slips through unnoticed.

Do I need to give DomainOwl access to my registrar accounts?

No. DomainOwl never logs into your registrars. Add domains manually or bulk-import a CSV, and RDAP lookups fill in registrar and expiry data automatically — no credentials, no API keys.

What happens if I forget to renew a domain — how long until it actually drops?

It moves through four stages: a grace period (up to 45 days, still renewable at the normal price), a roughly 30-day redemption period at an $80–200+ fee, then exactly 5 days of pending delete before the registry releases it publicly.

Can I track expiry dates for domains across multiple registrars in one place?

Yes — that's the point. Since DomainOwl doesn't require registrar logins, domains from GoDaddy, Namecheap, Porkbun, or anywhere else sit in the same tracker with the same alert schedule.

Does DomainOwl replace WHOIS lookups?

Yes. ICANN fully sunset WHOIS in favor of RDAP as the authoritative registry lookup protocol as of January 2025. DomainOwl's daily checks already run on RDAP, so tracking reflects the current standard rather than a legacy, less structured protocol.

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