Domain expiry lookup

Why domain expiry matters

A domain is rented, usually a year at a time. When the rental runs out, the website and every email address on it stop working, often within days. After a grace period the domain can be bought by anyone, including people who make a business of re-selling expired domains to their old owners.

What this lookup shows

• Expiry date and how many days are left, from the registry itself.
• Registrar: the company you pay for the domain, where renewal and the transfer lock live.
• Transfer lock: whether the domain can be moved to another registrar without you turning it off first.

We use RDAP, the modern replacement for WHOIS that registries publish as structured data. Some country-code registries don't offer RDAP yet; for those we can't read the expiry date.

Common problems

• Auto-renew with an old card. Auto-renew fails quietly when the card on file has expired. Check your registrar account once a year.
• Renewal emails to an old address. Registrars send reminders to the account's email, which is often a former employee's or a domain you no longer use.
• The transfer lock left off after moving registrars.

Pingerer can watch the expiry date for you and remind you 30 and 7 days before it runs out.

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