Do You Receive Domain Expiration Notices?
Tags: Domain Name, Domain Name Registration
What will happen if you don’t know that your domain name will expire tonight and you’re about to go out on a long vacation pretty much with no access to your email and phone? Do you think the impact will be greater if your’s is a shopping website that hundreds of visitors use to buy lot of things? What will happen if your website goes down for some time, say, few days?
Over 95% of the domains that I own and others that I manage on behalf of my friends and clients are registered with GoDaddy and one feature that I want to highlight is their ‘Domain Expiration Notice‘ email that I start receiving as soon as the domain nears its renewal time. The first expiration notice email shows up 90 days before the domain will expire, the second email before 60 days, the third one shows up before 30 days and the final one shows up before 15 days of expiry date. This pretty much makes me aware of the fact that my domains are going to expire very soon, and since I am receiving the notices in advance it also helps me plan my budget in case there are plenty of domains to renew during same time.
Receiving such expiry notices has many advantages. A quick run down of some of them are:
- Your domain is safe - Since you now know that your domain(s) will expire, you will renew and not lose them to someone who might be watching your domain name(s) for grabbing them up.
- Renew your domain or don’t - You may have some domains registered since long for some plans that you had but you are no longer interested in using them. In such case you may simply cancel the domain or prevent them from auto renewing. This saves you lot of money if you have a lot of domains registered.
- Your business is always online - Since you will not forget to renew your domain, your business will always be available to its customers.
Does you domain registrar has this feature? If not, you should get yourself some domain monitoring service or transfer your domain to a registrar who offers this feature. But then that’s not the only feature for which you will transfer your domain, look for other features too before you make the decision. Point is to have the domain active and keep the business running.
