Domain Expiry Runway
An expired domain is a total outage: site, email, and password resets all die at once. SaaSalyst checks your domain's registration expiry via RDAP and warns when the runway is short.
What SaaSalyst Checks
SaaSalyst queries the public RDAP registry for your registrable domain's expiration date and evaluates the remaining runway. Long runway passes; a short window warns. Many country-code TLDs publish no RDAP expiry — those report not-applicable rather than guessing.
Why This Matters
Domain expiry is the rare risk that is both catastrophic and entirely clerical. Renewal failures are almost always a lapsed card or an inbox nobody reads — and recovery can take days or end in a domain-squat ransom. For a SaaS, buyers and their security reviews read a near-expiry domain as an operational-maturity red flag.
How to Fix It
- Enable auto-renew at your registrar and confirm the payment card on file is current.
- Renew for multiple years — it is cheap and moves you out of every short-runway window.
- Ensure the registrar account's contact email is a monitored group address, not a founder's personal inbox.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does my domain show not-applicable?
Your TLD's registry does not publish expiry via RDAP (common for country-code TLDs). SaaSalyst deliberately reports not-applicable rather than penalizing a TLD choice — the check only evaluates domains whose registries expose the data.
How much runway is enough?
SaaSalyst warns on short windows because the failure mode is clerical, not technical: auto-renew plus a multi-year registration makes the check permanently green and costs a few dollars.
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