When a domain expires, its DNS records stop resolving. MX records vanish, email bounces, websites go offline, and authentication breaks. Recovery is possible during the grace and redemption periods, but fees increase and time is limited. This guide covers how to diagnose, recover, and prevent domain expiry.

A domain expiry warning means your domain's registration period is ending soon. While auto-renewal handles most cases, failed payments, locked accounts, and bounced billing emails cause domains to lapse every day. This guide covers what to check at each urgency level — from 90 days out to 7 days before expiry.

A domain that lapses takes everything with it — email, website, DNS records, authentication. This guide covers the expiry timeline from grace period through deletion, why auto-renewal is not foolproof, and how to monitor domain registration proactively.

When the domain expiry check cannot retrieve registration data, automated expiry monitoring is not possible for that domain. This is usually caused by RDAP service limitations, unsupported TLDs, privacy redaction, or temporary server issues. The domain itself may be perfectly healthy — we just cannot confirm its expiry date programmatically.

A practical guide to mxio's Domain Monitoring feature. Learn how to add a domain, run the first check, understand the health view, adjust monitoring settings, and use the dashboard day to day.

Understand what the mxio Domain Health Check measures across SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX, and DNS delegation — and how to interpret your health score.