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Included on all plans.","/features/domain-expiry-monitoring","summary_large_image",[16,19,22],{"label":17,"href":18},"Home","/",{"label":20,"href":21},"Features","/features",{"label":9,"href":13},{"eyebrow":9,"headline":24,"intentStatement":25,"bullets":26,"primaryCta":36,"secondaryCta":39,"proofPanel":41},"An expired domain is worse than a crashed server","When a domain expires, the site disappears entirely — DNS stops resolving, email stops working, and recovering it can take days. Registrar renewal emails routinely go to old client inboxes. 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The site disappears, email stops working, DNS stops resolving — recovering it requires waiting for registry propagation and can take days.",{"icon":70,"title":71,"description":72},"heroicons:envelope","Email stops working","When the domain expires, MX records stop resolving too. Client emails bounce. No one can reach the business during the outage. This is often worse than the website being down.",{"icon":74,"title":75,"description":76},"heroicons:inbox-arrow-down","Registrar renewal emails fail silently","Renewal notices go to the email address on the registrar account — which is often the client's old personal email, a role address nobody checks, or gets filtered as spam. The agency never sees it.",{"icon":78,"title":79,"description":80},"heroicons:rectangle-stack","Portfolio scale problem","One agency managing 30 client domains means 30 renewal dates, 30 registrar accounts, and 30 potential failure points. Manual calendar reminders are not a system.",{"icon":82,"title":83,"description":84},"heroicons:clock","Recovery takes time","An expired domain doesn't come back the moment you renew it. DNS propagation after recovery can take hours to days. The client's site may stay offline even after you pay.",{"icon":86,"title":87,"description":88},"heroicons:cog-6-tooth","No extra setup","SiteWatch extracts the apex domain from every site URL and queries RDAP automatically. 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RDAP lookup result cached and refreshed on every monitoring cycle.",{"id":149,"tocLabel":150,"type":61,"eyebrow":151,"heading":152,"items":153},"ssl-bundle","SSL bundle","Paired with SSL monitoring","SSL expiry and domain expiry — monitored together",[154,158,162],{"icon":155,"title":156,"description":157},"heroicons:shield-check","Both are expiry problems agencies need to track","SSL certificates expire and so do domain registrations. Both can take a client site offline — and both send renewal notices to inboxes nobody checks. SiteWatch handles both automatically so you're never caught off guard by either.",{"icon":159,"title":160,"description":161},"heroicons:arrow-path","Both run on every check cycle","Domain RDAP queries and SSL certificate reads happen automatically on every monitoring cycle. No separate scans, no separate tools. Add a site once and both are covered immediately.",{"icon":163,"title":164,"description":165},"heroicons:eye","Both visible in one place","Domain expiry status and SSL certificate health appear alongside uptime, performance, and security signals in a single dashboard. One place to see the full health of every client site.",{"id":167,"tocLabel":168,"type":169,"eyebrow":168,"heading":170,"items":171},"faq","FAQ","faq-accordion","Domain expiry monitoring questions",[172,175,178,181,184],{"question":173,"answer":174},"What happens when a domain expires?","When a domain expires, the registry stops serving DNS records for it. The site goes down completely — not just the web server, but email, subdomains, and anything else running on that domain. Recovery requires renewing through the registrar, then waiting for DNS propagation, which can take hours to days. This is more disruptive than a server outage because you cannot fix it quickly.",{"question":176,"answer":177},"Can't I just use WHOIS to check this?","WHOIS requires manual lookups for each domain. Agencies managing 30 client domains would need to check each one individually, remember to do it regularly, and parse inconsistently formatted WHOIS responses. SiteWatch queries RDAP (the structured, API-based successor to WHOIS) automatically for every domain in your portfolio.",{"question":179,"answer":180},"What is RDAP?","RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol) is the standardized successor to WHOIS. It returns structured JSON data directly from the domain registry — more reliable, more consistent, and no scraping required. SiteWatch uses RDAP because it's the most accurate source for domain registration data.",{"question":182,"answer":183},"Does domain monitoring work for all domain extensions?","RDAP coverage depends on the domain registry. Most major TLDs (.com, .net, .org, .io, and most country-code TLDs) are supported. Some registries that haven't implemented RDAP yet may fall back to WHOIS parsing.",{"question":185,"answer":186},"Is domain monitoring included on the free plan?","Yes. Domain expiry monitoring is included on every plan including the free plan, for every site you monitor.",{"id":188,"tocLabel":189,"type":190,"heading":191,"subtext":192,"primaryLabel":193,"primaryHref":38},"cta","Get started","cta-strip","Start monitoring domain expiry across your entire client portfolio","Free plan. 1 site. Domain and SSL monitoring included. 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