Most people who want a specific domain name have no way to know when a real opportunity to acquire it appears. Notify.domains monitors WHOIS, RDAP, auctions, marketplaces, website signals, and more, checking each domain 20+ times per day across all IANA TLDs. When something changes, you get a plain-English notification with exact next steps, not raw data. $24/year, 7-day free trial, no credit card required.
I spent 15 years inside the domain industry. I founded DomainSherpa, created DNAcademy, and ran it as GoDaddy's Director of Education after the acquisition. I watched people lose names they wanted because they didn't have the right information at the right moment.
Notify.domains watches any domain you want and tells you when something changes, with exact next steps, not raw WHOIS.
I'll be here all day. What's the one name you would grab if you knew the moment it became available?
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@michaelcyger Does this also cover the smaller country-code TLDs? UI looks super clean...nice launch
@priya_kushwaha1 Yes. All IANA root-zone TLDs, including the small ccTLDs. 2,205 extensions right now. Some registries publish less than others, so WHOIS/RDAP can be thin, but you still get change detection on what they expose, plus website, DNS, auction, and marketplace signals. Thanks for the kind words on the UI.
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@michaelcyger Amazing! 🥲 I missed so many domains without this
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Congratulations on the launch, Mike. The landscape of the places domain names may be available has become more decentralized, making a service such as this essential for those names you really want. I can't begin to imagine to complexity behind the scenes of making this work with so many different systems. Hats off for getting it all together and launched.
Am I correct that there is nothing to present two, or more, people from signing up for monitoring the exact same name? If so, I presume they would each get the same information according to their notification preferences?
@agreatdomain Bob, thank you. That decentralization point is exactly why this exists.
A lot of people watch a name until it expires, see the site stop resolving or land on a registrar expired page, and assume they can hand-register it when it drops. For a desirable name, that is almost never what happens. The registrar's auction partner usually lists it first. If you do not know which auction site that is, you never get a chance to bid. The name sells, or it goes to a drop-catcher, and the people refreshing WHOIS find out too late. Notify.domains makes crystal clear what is generally opaque to most people.
Nothing stops two people from watching the exact same name. They do not see each other. Each person gets the same underlying changes, delivered according to their own notification settings, whether that is email, Telegram, Slack, or a webhook. We do not share watch lists between customers.
Each person only sees the changes and the auction and marketplace price chart from the day they started watching. If one person started a year ago and another starts today, the second person does not inherit that year of history. They only get what we recorded after they added the name.
@ismaelyws Not today, Hans. Notify.domains watches specific domain names you add, not a keyword or industry search. If you already know the names you care about, add those and we watch them. If you and Mike are still hunting for ideas by keyword, that is a different job, and I do not want to pretend we do that.
Happy to answer any other questions you have. Thanks for checking it out.
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I've been using Notify.domains to track a name that I've been lusting over for more than a decade... it's no longer being used, it's not for sale, and the owner won't respond, so knowing that Notify.domains is working 24/7 on my behalf gives me hope that one day I'll get my chance to own it.
And Michael genuinely listens to feedback and continues to improve the service, so what's not to love?!?!
@andryemel Thanks, Andrei. That's the whole bet. Most people who want a name don't lose it at checkout. They lose it because they never saw the listing, the auction, or the status change in the first place.
My wife just signed up for a service that watches flights you're thinking of taking and tells you when a seat opens up in a particular class, like if you can use an upgrade coupon. This is similar for domain names!
I'll be here all day if you have questions. Thanks for your support.
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Your reply to Bob about the registrar's auction partner listing it first is the part most people learn the expensive way. Flipping it around though: I run a business on about a dozen small sending domains, and the failure I actually worry about is one of MINE quietly lapsing or having its DNS changed under me. Does Notify watch domains you already own for that, or is it aimed purely at names you're trying to acquire?
Notify.domains is not aimed only at domain names you are trying to acquire. Add the domain names you already own and the system works just as well.
If one of your owned domain names is listed for sale on a marketplace, you get an alert. Same if it is listed in an auction without your permission, or if the site goes dark and stops responding.
For security reasons, we also watch DNS. If the name servers change, an A record is modified, or the MX records change and email is directed to a new location, we notify you.
Those are exactly the events you want to know about for the domain names you own that are valuable and you want another level of assurance on. All of that information is publicly accessed and monitored without providing access to your registrar accounts.
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@michaelcyger Does this also cover the smaller country-code TLDs? UI looks super clean...nice launch
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@priya_kushwaha1 Yes. All IANA root-zone TLDs, including the small ccTLDs. 2,205 extensions right now. Some registries publish less than others, so WHOIS/RDAP can be thin, but you still get change detection on what they expose, plus website, DNS, auction, and marketplace signals. Thanks for the kind words on the UI.
Congratulations on the launch, Mike. The landscape of the places domain names may be available has become more decentralized, making a service such as this essential for those names you really want. I can't begin to imagine to complexity behind the scenes of making this work with so many different systems. Hats off for getting it all together and launched.
Am I correct that there is nothing to present two, or more, people from signing up for monitoring the exact same name? If so, I presume they would each get the same information according to their notification preferences?
Bob Hawkes
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@agreatdomain Bob, thank you. That decentralization point is exactly why this exists.
A lot of people watch a name until it expires, see the site stop resolving or land on a registrar expired page, and assume they can hand-register it when it drops. For a desirable name, that is almost never what happens. The registrar's auction partner usually lists it first. If you do not know which auction site that is, you never get a chance to bid. The name sells, or it goes to a drop-catcher, and the people refreshing WHOIS find out too late. Notify.domains makes crystal clear what is generally opaque to most people.
Nothing stops two people from watching the exact same name. They do not see each other. Each person gets the same underlying changes, delivered according to their own notification settings, whether that is email, Telegram, Slack, or a webhook. We do not share watch lists between customers.
Each person only sees the changes and the auction and marketplace price chart from the day they started watching. If one person started a year ago and another starts today, the second person does not inherit that year of history. They only get what we recorded after they added the name.
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I could definitely use this. Do you have the ability to search by keyword or industry instead of specific domains?
@mikesabet this could be helpful for your search.
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@ismaelyws Not today, Hans. Notify.domains watches specific domain names you add, not a keyword or industry search. If you already know the names you care about, add those and we watch them. If you and Mike are still hunting for ideas by keyword, that is a different job, and I do not want to pretend we do that.
Happy to answer any other questions you have. Thanks for checking it out.
I've been using Notify.domains to track a name that I've been lusting over for more than a decade... it's no longer being used, it's not for sale, and the owner won't respond, so knowing that Notify.domains is working 24/7 on my behalf gives me hope that one day I'll get my chance to own it.
And Michael genuinely listens to feedback and continues to improve the service, so what's not to love?!?!
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@ammarkubba Thanks for using Notify.domains, Ammar! 🙏
I appreciate your support and we’ll keep improving the system to help you get your desired domains.
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@ralphquintero Ralph, thank you. That means a lot because you've actually been using the service. 🙏
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Love that the alerts explain what to do next. Really useful for founders waiting on the right domain. Congrats on the launch!
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@andryemel Thanks, Andrei. That's the whole bet. Most people who want a name don't lose it at checkout. They lose it because they never saw the listing, the auction, or the status change in the first place.
My wife just signed up for a service that watches flights you're thinking of taking and tells you when a seat opens up in a particular class, like if you can use an upgrade coupon. This is similar for domain names!
I'll be here all day if you have questions. Thanks for your support.
Your reply to Bob about the registrar's auction partner listing it first is the part most people learn the expensive way. Flipping it around though: I run a business on about a dozen small sending domains, and the failure I actually worry about is one of MINE quietly lapsing or having its DNS changed under me. Does Notify watch domains you already own for that, or is it aimed purely at names you're trying to acquire?
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@podcastbud Christopher, thank you.
Notify.domains is not aimed only at domain names you are trying to acquire. Add the domain names you already own and the system works just as well.
If one of your owned domain names is listed for sale on a marketplace, you get an alert. Same if it is listed in an auction without your permission, or if the site goes dark and stops responding.
For security reasons, we also watch DNS. If the name servers change, an A record is modified, or the MX records change and email is directed to a new location, we notify you.
Those are exactly the events you want to know about for the domain names you own that are valuable and you want another level of assurance on. All of that information is publicly accessed and monitored without providing access to your registrar accounts.