Domain Monitoring That Catches Expiry Risks Early
Domain monitoring helps prevent renewal-related downtime by tracking expiry dates, registrar changes, and WHOIS details. Zunoy Uptime’s domain monitoring service alerts your team early, so you can renew on time and keep your website and services available.
Getting Started
Start Monitoring in Under A Minute
Name it and pick Domain
Name your monitor and select Domain as the type.
Enter your domain
Add the domain, and set a check interval for how often WHOIS data is verified.
Set your expiry threshold
Choose how many days before expiry you want to be warned, 30, 14, or 7 days out.
Turn on Incidents
A failing check opens an incident automatically, ready to be assigned and tracked.
Built-In Checks
It Watches the Registration, Not Just the Site
Expiry Countdown
Domain expiry monitoring shows exactly how many days remain before a domain's registration lapses.
Registrar Change Detection
Get flagged if a domain's registrar changes unexpectedly.
WHOIS Data Check
See registrar, registration date, and ownership details on every check.
Custom Expiry Threshold
Get warned 30, 14, or 7 days out, whatever gives your team enough runway.
Here's Everything It Connects To
A domain monitoring tool doesn't work in isolation. It connects directly with the rest of the platform.
Status Pages
Show Registration Health Alongside Everything Else
Link a web domain monitor to a status page, so an approaching expiry is visible the same way a downtime incident would be.
Incident Response
An Approaching Expiry Opens a Real Incident
A domain crossing your expiry threshold triggers an incident automatically, tracked and assigned instead of forgotten in someone's calendar.
Analysis
See Your Renewal History, Not Just Today's Status
Every check builds into a record of past renewals and registrar changes, useful the moment a domain's history actually matters.
AI Features
Let AI Set It Up For You
No dashboard needed. Ask your connected MCP Terminal to create a Domain monitor.
Alternative
When There's No Domain to Actively Check
Not everything domain-related can sit behind an automatic check, an internally-managed domain with no public registrar API, or one you're representing manually during a migration. Use a Manual Monitor to set its status by hand instead.
Set status manually, no active check running
Still works with Incident Management like a real monitor
Still shows up on your status page
Benefits
What Every Check Actually Verifies
A working site today says nothing about whether the domain underneath it is about to lapse. Here's what gets verified on every single check.
Confirms who actually owns the registration
Not just that DNS resolves, but that the domain itself is still yours to keep. A certificate and a server mean nothing if the registration lapses first.
Warns before a squatter gets the chance
An expired, unrenewed domain is exactly the window a squatter is waiting for. Days of notice turns that risk into a routine renewal instead.
Tracks registrar changes automatically
An unexpected transfer gets flagged the moment it happens. That's often the first sign something's wrong before anything else shows it.
Separates domain expiry from certificate expiry
Two different deadlines, tracked as two different things. Confusing one for the other is exactly how a renewal gets missed.
Integrations
Get Alerts However Your Team Actually Works
A domain lapsing isn't a minor bug, it's the whole site going dark. Route it to Slack, SMS, or wherever it'll actually be seen in time.
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Real Scenarios
This Is What It Actually Catches
- ECOMMERCE
Ecommerce Platforms
A storefront domain nears expiry before a major campaign, giving the team time to renew it and avoid sales disruption.
- SAAS
SaaS Teams
A domain transfer between registrars stalls mid-process, caught before it turns into an actual outage.
- COMPLIANCE
Compliance Teams
A documented history of domain ownership and registrar changes, ready whenever it's actually asked for.
- IT
Enterprise IT
A legacy domain nobody actively owns anymore, still pointed at something customers use daily.
Quick Answers About Domain Monitoring
What is domain monitoring?
Domain monitoring tracks your domain's registration status, expiry date, registrar, and WHOIS details, and alerts you before a lapse or unexpected change becomes an outage. An expired domain takes down your website, email, and every service that depends on it, so early warning matters.
How is this different from DNS monitoring?
Domain monitoring confirms that your domain registration is active and hasn't lapsed. DNS monitoring confirms that your domain's records resolve to the right values. A domain can be registered but pointing to the wrong server, or configured correctly but about to expire.
Can it catch a registrar change I didn't expect?
Yes. Registrar change detection flags an unexpected transfer on the next check after it happens, so you can respond quickly to a possible domain hijacking or an unauthorized transfer.
How is this different from SSL monitoring?
Domain monitoring watches your domain registration at the registrar, while SSL monitoring watches your security certificate's expiry and validity. They're separate deadlines with separate renewal processes, and either one lapsing can take your site offline, so most teams monitor both.
How far in advance does a domain expiry check alert me?
You can set alerts 30, 14, or 7 days before a domain expires, giving your team time to renew even if the payment method on file has failed or the registrar account owner has left.
What happens when a domain crosses the expiry threshold?
When a domain enters your alert window, Zunoy Uptime notifies your configured alert channels. If Incident Management is turned on, an incident opens automatically so your team can track the renewal through to completion.
Stay Registered
Never Let a Domain Expire Quietly
A lapsed domain doesn't just break a page, it can take down everything behind it. Set your threshold once, and every renewal deadline gets tracked from there.
Tracks expiry automatically
Flags unexpected registrar changes
Alerts before it's too late