Domain Registration
Domain expiration check
When your domain registration runs out. An expired domain takes your website and email down together.
Check this on your own domain now. It is free with a DomainGuard account and works on any domain. The check reads only what your domain publishes, and gives you a report you can send to whoever runs your website.
What we look at
We read your domain's expiry date from the registry's public record (RDAP, or the registry's WHOIS when its RDAP server refuses us) and count the days left: inside 90 days is a warning and inside 30 fails.
Why it matters to your business
When a domain expires, your website, email and anything tied to it stop working, and after a grace period anyone can buy it, including someone who wants to receive your customers' email. Auto-renew fails quietly when a card expires or the renewal email goes to someone who left.
How to fix it
- Renew now, for several years if you can.
- Turn on auto-renew at your registrar and check the card on file.
- Make sure the registrar's contact email goes to a shared mailbox, not one person.
If you would rather not touch DNS or server settings yourself, forward this page and your report to whoever manages your website, or ask us to do it.
Keep an eye on it
A one-off check tells you how things stand today. On Starter and up, DomainGuard re-checks the domains it watches every day and alerts you in the app when something important changes, so you hear about it before a customer does.