A lapsed domain takes your website, email, and brand offline instantly — and anyone can register it once the grace period ends. Beacony runs daily WHOIS-based domain expiry checks and sends escalating renewal alerts at 30, 14, 7, and 1 day so you never miss a deadline.
DNS stops resolving. Every visitor sees an error page. SEO rankings built over years can collapse in days.
Incoming and outgoing email fails. You miss customer enquiries, invoices, and password resets tied to your domain.
After the grace period, the domain becomes available. Competitors or bad actors can register it, permanently damaging your brand.
Beacony queries the WHOIS database daily for your domain's expiry date and sends warnings at configurable thresholds before it lapses. No plugins, no registrar API access — just enter your domain name and monitoring starts immediately.
Alert timeline
WHOIS servers enforce strict rate limits and block IPs that query too frequently. Daily checks are the industry standard for domain expiry monitoring — a domain's expiry date only changes the moment it's renewed, so more frequent checks add no value and risk your IP being blocked.
No. Beacony monitors and alerts — domain renewal is handled through your registrar (Namecheap, GoDaddy, Cloudflare Registrar, Google Domains, etc.). With alerts starting 30 days out, you have a full month to log in and renew before your domain lapses.
Beacony supports all major TLDs including .com, .net, .org, .io, .co, .app, .dev, and hundreds of country-code TLDs (.co.uk, .de, .fr) and new gTLDs. If your TLD's WHOIS registry is publicly queryable, Beacony can monitor it.
Yes. You can monitor any publicly registered domain — including a key vendor's domain, a partner's site, or a brand name you depend on — as long as its WHOIS expiry data is publicly accessible. This is useful for supplier risk monitoring.