A daily RDAP lookup on any monitor's domain, with a one-time email once registration is close to lapsing, on Starter tier and up.
Free forever plan, no card required.Why it matters
Domain expiry is the outage that skips every other layer of monitoring — the server's healthy, the certificate's fine, and the site is simply gone because nobody renewed the registration. It's rare, and it's always a full-blown emergency when it happens. Registrars typically send their own renewal reminders, but those emails are easy to lose track of — they go to whichever inbox was used at signup years ago, which might belong to someone who's since left the company, or they land in a folder nobody checks until it's too late. Once a domain actually lapses, getting it back isn't a quick fix; depending on the registrar and the TLD, it can mean a redemption fee, a waiting period, or in the worst case losing it to someone else entirely. A second, independent warning outside your registrar's own reminders is cheap insurance against a mistake that's genuinely expensive to undo. It's the rare kind of outage where the fix, once you know about it in time, is almost embarrassingly simple. It's the kind of oversight that's entirely preventable, which is exactly what makes it sting more when it happens anyway.
Opt in on any non-Heartbeat monitor; the daily check runs on its own with nothing to maintain. There's no separate schedule to configure or renewal calendar to keep updated by hand — once it's turned on for a monitor, it just quietly checks every day without needing any further attention. It's one more thing you can stop manually tracking on a spreadsheet or calendar reminder somewhere. It's one of the easiest checks on this page to turn on and then genuinely forget about.
A single email at your chosen threshold, not a flood of reminders you start to tune out. Set the threshold to however much lead time your team actually needs to get a renewal processed — that's one meaningful email instead of a registrar-style barrage that trains you to skim past every renewal notice. It's designed to be noticed, not filtered into a folder along with everything else. It's built to actually get read, not just technically delivered.
Real registry data, not a scrape — skipped cleanly on the rare TLD that doesn't publish RDAP. Because it's querying the actual registry record rather than parsing a webpage that could change format at any time, the expiry date it reports is the same one your registrar would tell you, not an approximation. That accuracy is what makes the warning something you can actually act on with confidence. It's the same kind of data a registrar itself would rely on internally.
FAQ
Domain expiry monitoring is available on Starter tier and up — opt in on any non-Heartbeat monitor and the daily check runs on its own. Free doesn't include this particular check, though every other core monitoring feature — checks, alerts, status pages — is still fully available on Free. It pairs naturally with the same monitor you're already using to watch the domain's uptime. It's a small gap on Free worth knowing about if domain expiry specifically is a concern.
A daily RDAP lookup against real registry data, not a scrape — it's skipped cleanly on the rare TLD that doesn't publish RDAP. RDAP is the modern, structured successor to WHOIS, so the date returned comes straight from the registry itself rather than being parsed out of an inconsistently formatted text response. For the handful of TLDs where RDAP isn't published, the check is simply skipped rather than guessed at. It's a more dependable source than scraping a registrar's own lookup page.
No — it only warns you before the registration lapses. You still renew through whichever registrar you registered the domain with, the same way you always have; this feature exists purely to make sure that renewal happens before the deadline instead of being discovered after it's passed. Think of it as the calendar reminder you'd set yourself, just one that can't be forgotten or dismissed by accident. It exists purely to make sure the renewal happens on time, not to handle the renewal itself.
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