Monitoring for impending expiration of domains?

[Patrik Fältström]

On 14 Dec 2020, at 18:41, Wes Hardaker wrote:

> Patrik Fältström via dns-operations <dns-operations at dns-oarc.net>
> writes:
>
>> The only advice that works is to choose registrar carefully and choose
>> one which do handle the expiration / renewal process to whatever you
>> want.
>
> Hi.  Recent domain loss owner here.
>
> I recently had a few domains that I didn't have set up for auto-renewal as I was making yearly decisions about them (IE, they weren't mission critical).  I had the registrar's emails specifically filtered to an important folder so I'd notice the pending expiration date.  Then...
> that registar sold all their DNS services to a different one.  I lost two domains because the new registar's mails ending up in a spam folder before I noticed.  Whoops.

That companies buy and sell each others, or the customers, or products...well, that is unfortunately part of the game. :-(

> Mind you the fault was entirely mine.  But auto-renew is probably the only safe way, as mail fails...  and as Viktor pointed out, calendars aren't exactly perfect either.

I rather say, you do not solve these issues with just technical measures.

   Patrik
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