Domain Monitoring & 24/7 Expiry Alerts

A domain monitoring service checks a domain's public registry record on a schedule and tells you when something changes. Domainyze queries RDAP first and falls back to WHOIS, stores the last confirmed answer, and alerts on the difference rather than on the value: status, expiry, registrar of record, transfer lock and nameserver delegation. On a name you are waiting on, checks run every 6 hours on paid plans and every 12 hours on Free, tightening to as often as every minute as a drop approaches. On a name you already own they run on a steady lane, alongside the DNS and certificate lanes that watch it faster. Coverage extends to any TLD that publishes public registration data over RDAP or WHOIS.

Eight signals: registration status, registry expiry date, registrar of record and transfer lock, nameserver delegation, the A, AAAA, MX, NS, SOA, TXT and CAA records, mail authentication (SPF, DKIM and DMARC), the SSL certificate served on your hostnames, and live availability for names you are waiting on. The first four are on every plan. The DNS and certificate lanes are a paid feature.

Yes, any registrar, and domains you do not own at all. Monitoring reads public registry and DNS data from outside, so the registrar is irrelevant and no login is involved. That also means you can watch a competitor's domain, a client's domain before you take over their account, or a name you would like to own one day.

No. There is no agent, no nameserver change, and no API key to hand over. Everything is read from public sources: registry RDAP and WHOIS, authoritative DNS, and an external TLS handshake. That is deliberate, because the point is to see your domain the way the rest of the internet sees it rather than the way your own infrastructure believes it is configured.

It depends on what the name is to you. On a name you are waiting on, registry data is checked every 6 hours on paid plans and every 12 hours on Free, and the cadence tightens automatically as the name moves toward release: in the window before an observed drop it runs as often as every 2 minutes on Pro and every minute on Business, while Free tightens to every 6 hours. On a name you already own the registry lane is steady rather than escalating, because a change there is somebody else acting on your name and nothing in the schedule can anticipate it, so the fast coverage is the delegation lane, the certificate lane and your renewal reminders. DNS zone checks and certificate handshakes are included with paid plans.

Expiry reminders across the runway your plan buys; a status-change alert on every lifecycle transition (active, expired, redemption, pending delete, available); registrar and transfer-lock changes; nameserver delegation changes; and an availability alert the second a watched name is released. Each type can be switched on or off per domain.

No. Alerts are deduplicated against the transition that produced them, so a domain that sits in the same state for a month produces one alert rather than sixty. Every detected change is re-confirmed against a second independent lookup before it is sent, which filters out the resolver glitches and cache artefacts that make simpler tools cry wolf.

Business plans support client tagging and grouping, per-group webhooks, and CSV export, so an agency can hand a client a clean report without giving them the whole portfolio.

During redemption, roughly 30 days after deletion at the registrar, the original owner can still restore the domain, usually for a $80 to $200 registry fee. Once it enters pending delete, restoration is no longer possible and the registry has queued the name for release, typically five days later on a schedule that registry publishes. The practical difference is that redemption is still the owner's to fix and pending delete is not.

No service honestly can. We are a detection tool, not a backorder or auction service: we alert you at the second of release so you can register the name yourself at standard price, with no broker fee. For heavily contested names a drop-catching service with registry connections will usually win. For the long tail, a fast alert is enough.

An uptime monitor tells you the site is already down. Domain monitoring watches the causes: an expiring registration, a lapsing certificate, an unexpected nameserver change. Most of them produce no downtime at all until it is far too late to act cheaply, which is exactly why nothing else notices them.

Yes, free forever for 5 domains, with registry checks every 12 hours, lifecycle and status-change alerts, availability watching and email delivery. Paid plans raise the portfolio limit (Pro 200, Business 500), check every 6 hours on names you are waiting on and as often as every minute in a drop window, and add DNS monitoring, SSL monitoring, expiry reminders further ahead, and Slack, Discord and signed-webhook delivery.