Domain expiry monitoring that catches the renewal nobody read
Domains expire on payment cards agencies don’t control, renewed by reminders sent to inboxes agencies can’t see. Lapsewatch checks every domain’s registry record once a day and warns you long before the deadline — not after the site is already down.
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Why domain expiry is an agency problem, not a client problem
The domain was usually registered years ago, on a card that has since expired, under an email address that belongs to someone who left the company. The registrar sends its renewal reminders there — never to the agency actually running the site.
By the time anyone notices, the domain has already lapsed. The website is down, the inbox is down, and the fix isn’t a five-minute DNS change — it’s a redemption-period fee, or a domain someone else has already registered.
How the check works
Once a domain is added, Lapsewatch asks the registry directly over RDAP — the IETF standard that replaced WHOIS — for its exact expiry date, once a day.
Full escalation ladder
Alerts fire 60, 30, 14, 7 and 1 day before expiry. Each rung sends exactly once, so a client with five domains expiring the same week gets five emails, not twenty-five.
Alerts in the client’s name
On the Agency plan, the same warning can go out under your studio’s name and reply-to address — so the renewal reminder looks like it came from the people actually responsible for the site.
Manual dates where the registry won’t say
Some national registries don’t publish an expiry date over RDAP at all. Lapsewatch says so plainly and lets you enter the date once — the alert ladder still runs on it.
Not every registry answers the same question
RDAP is a good standard, but adoption isn’t universal: some registries return a full expiry date, some return only a registration date, and a few don’t answer at all. Guessing a date from the registration date is exactly the kind of confident-looking wrong answer that erodes trust in a monitoring tool, so Lapsewatch never does it — an unpublished date gets flagged as such, and the date you enter manually takes over the alert ladder.
Domain expiry monitoring, answered
How is this different from a calendar reminder for renewal dates?
A calendar reminder only works if someone updates it the moment a domain changes hands or a registrar’s auto-renewal silently fails. Lapsewatch reads the live registry record every day, so it reflects reality even when nobody remembered to update anything.
What happens after a domain actually expires?
Most registries hold an expired domain in a redemption grace period for days to weeks before releasing it — but recovering it during that window typically costs a redemption fee far above a normal renewal, and after that it’s simply gone. The alert ladder exists so you never find out during that window.
Do you need my registrar login?
Never. Every check reads only public RDAP data — the same information anyone can query for a domain. We don’t ask for a registrar account, a transfer code, or any credential.