Never lose a domain to a missed renewal

Spectate looks up each domain at its registry every 6 hours: over RDAP, the protocol registries use to publish registration data, or over WHOIS for the country domains that don't offer RDAP. It reads the expiry date, registrar, nameservers, DNSSEC records and statuses, and retries later when a registry is temporarily unavailable. Some registries, such as those for .de, .nl, .eu and .be, don't publish expiry dates at all; for those domains Spectate still tracks the registrar, nameservers and statuses.

30 days before the domain expires by default. You can set the threshold per domain to anything from 1 to 365 days. If the domain does expire, a critical alert follows. Once you renew, the next lookup sees the new date and resolves the alert.

Yes. With registry change alerts on, which you can switch per domain, Spectate compares each lookup with the previous one and alerts when the registrar, the nameservers or the DNSSEC keys change. That catches unexpected transfers and DNS hijacks as well as changes someone forgot to mention.

Yes, with a DNS monitor. It queries A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, TXT, CAA or SOA records through the default resolver, a resolver you choose or the zone's authoritative nameservers. It can check for expected values and alert when the answer changes, showing the records before and after.

No. Domain monitoring is included on every plan and domains don't count towards the monitors you pay for. DNS monitors, which check individual records from the checkers, are regular monitors and count like any other.