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How can you make domain renewals be monthly or quarterly?

• gpm 8y ago
  If you have multiple domains you could renew them at seperate times. Has the advantage that a failure might not be so disastrous either.
  • eli 8y ago
    Only if you had the foresight to register them at different times, right?
    • jethro_tell 8y ago
      Not necessarily, most registrars will let you renew for a full year or more at any time. Buy both on the same day, set a reminder or open a ticket to renew only one domain in 3/6 mo. Also, get a registrar with an API and use a script to figure out how long a domain is valid. Alarm through your monitoring system when you hit the too close for comfort time frame. You can scrape whois as well but that seems fragile.
• dspillett 8y ago
  The monthly process isn't necessarily to renew domains - it is to assess the situation to see if there are any that need renewing soon. Many months nothing will need doing, a couple of months per year something will need action. Even as a small company we have a number of regular infrastructure reviews. Most of the time we just go through the review, find nothing has changed unexpectedly and no new ideas need bringing to the table, we sign off to say all looks well, and the prices takes very little time. Some of this is automated: scripts collate and report information for signoff and we humans verify the result and take actions as needed (in some cases the action needed is to update the script(s)). This may seem wasteful, but a couple of people spending a couple of hours total per month on such checks can save some nasty surprises in future. Domain status checks is one of the things that gets reviewed.