What we check
- Registration expiry date, checked daily against the registry rather than the registrar
- Which registrar currently holds it, and any transfer between them
- Nameservers, and any change to them
- Transfer lock status, which is what stops a domain being moved without your knowledge
- Registration date, so the record knows how long you have held it
When you hear from us
Immediately at ninety, thirty, fourteen and seven days before expiry, and again on the day. Immediately if the registrar or nameservers change, because an unexpected change there is either a mistake or something worse. Otherwise it appears in the weekly email as a line confirming nothing moved.
Why the registry rather than the registrar
The date shown in a registrar control panel can differ from the authoritative date at the registry, particularly around transfers and failed renewals. We read the registry, because that is what the rest of the internet uses.
What ends up in the record
Every renewal, every registrar transfer with dates on both sides, every nameserver change with the previous values kept. Three years in, this answers questions that are otherwise unanswerable, such as when a domain was moved and what it pointed at beforehand.