I have been using Domain Tools’ Domain Monitor for several years to get alerts when my clients’ domains are about to expire so I can warn them to renew. This is part of my WordPress managed hosting service and since I manage almost 200 websites I need a robust domain monitoring tool. The Domain Monitor service is going to be retired on September 30th 2024 so I’m sharing here my research on other options.
- Key features I am looking for:
- Monitor tracks domains (all TLDs) for impending expiration. less useful for me is to track changes in status
- Email alerts when monitored domains are approaching expiration
- Dashboard to organize monitored domains – perhaps link to Whois records
- Tracking SSL expiration is not an issue I need to worry about but might be of interest also
Domain Monitor used to be free but currently most alternative services are paid, the price depending on the number of domains monitored.
Many options:
- https://pingerman.com/ – they have a credit-based pricing and they claim that expiration monitoring for 100 domains should cost $7 per month.
- https://freedomainalerts.com/free – $19.00/month for 100 domains, $38.00/month for 500 domains.
- https://www.expirationreminder.net/pricing – $49/month for up to 250 tracked items.
- https://hetrixtools.com/pricing/uptime-monitor/ – $19.95/month for 60 domains, $49.95/month for 200.
- https://www.uptimia.com/pricing – $56/month for 50 domains, $229/month for 500 domains.
- https://uptimerobot.com/pricing/ – $29/month for 100 domains.
- https://www.site24x7.com/site24x7-pricing.html – $98/monthly for 100 domains.
- https://domain-monitor.io/pricing/ – $8/monthly for 100 domains.
- https://domainguard.app/pricing – $5.00/month for 75 domains, $25.00/month for 400 domains.
- https://www.remindax.com/pricing – It is free for up to 15 tracked items.
For 200 tracked items it is $29/month, and for 500 items it is $49/month .
Another option is the Domain Control & Whois WWW application for iOS (or MacOS with M1). It has a free and a premium version, which gives you an unlimited domain count. The paid version is $1.49/month or $15.49/yearly. You can also pay $39.99 for a lifelong license. it allows easy import of a long list of domains but I found the SSL expirtion notices got in the way and i coudl not turn on notifications for all domains – i had to do that one at a time. also it doesn’t refresh expirations dates automatically so that is a big limitation also.
*The information about pricing in this article has been updated on August 20, 2024.
