Domain expiry monitoring
When a domain registration lapses, the website, the email and every service on the domain stop together. FastPing reads the expiry date from the registry twice a day and tells you before it happens.
Check details
- Monitor type
- Domain expiry
- Target
- Domain name
- Fastest interval
- 12 hours
- Before a down alert
- A second check after 20 seconds
- Warnings and changes
- Sent on the first check that finds them
- Checked from
- Helsinki, Finland (EU)
How it works
- FastPing reduces the hostname to the registered domain, so shop.example.co.uk is checked as example.co.uk.
- It asks the registry's RDAP service, found through the official IANA list, for the expiry date and the registrar.
- The monitor turns to warning inside your warning period, and down if the domain expires.
What FastPing checks
- Expiry date
Read from the registry itself, not from a third-party WHOIS copy.
- Registrar
Shown with each result, useful when your domains are spread over several registrars.
- Warning period
30 days by default, adjustable from 1 to 120 days.
Set it up
Test your domain with the free domain expiry lookup. Create a Domain expiry monitor with the domain name. Attach an alert channel that someone with access to the registrar account reads.
Frequently asked questions
If your question is not here, write to us. We reply by email, usually within one business day.
Contact supportWhich domains are supported?
Domains whose registry offers RDAP: generic top-level domains such as .com, .net, .org and .app, and many country-code domains. The free lookup tool shows whether yours works.
Why is auto-renewal not enough?
Auto-renewal fails when a card expires, a payment is declined or a domain sits in a former employee's account. A monitor catches all of these.
How often is the expiry date checked?
At most every 12 hours. Registration data rarely changes.
Related monitoring
- SSL certificate monitoringExpiry warnings and alerts for broken chains, hostname mismatches and self-signed certificates.
- DNS monitoringChange alerts for A, MX, NS, TXT, CAA and other records, as public resolvers see them.
- DMARC, SPF and DKIM monitoringGraded SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, with change alerts for SPF and DMARC and for DKIM keys that disappear.
Start with the free plan
3 monitors, checks every 5 minutes and 1 status page. No payment details needed.