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Idea: Write a Google Script that periodically checks the domain for expiry, then inserts an email directly in your inbox if there is an issue.

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We check for domain expiry and then trigger an alarm in the monitoring system when the valid.date.days <= 90

I do this for SSL (<= 30), but I should probably do it with the domain as well.

Can't hurt. =)

This solution is a bit over-engineered, don't you think?

I'm confused, how is it over-engineered?

This is the job of the registrar

I wasn't trying to justify otherwise?

If you have to engineer a solution due to problems caused by the failures of those you depended on to deliver the expected level of service then the entire solution is over-engineered.

Over-engineering is when you make something to be more robust than is necessary for it to work successfully. Evidently depending on the registrar actually failed here (just as it has for many in the past), and this will surely happen again in the future. I don't see how making your system robust to failures that actually come up is over-engineering. It sounds more like just plain old engineering. (And I honestly also fail to see what is productive about pressing on with this conversation.)

Turns out, sometimes someone doesn't do their job, or someone ends up in the hospital, and sometimes weird things just happen.

There are lots of places where we may want redundancy to redund at us.

It's their job. But it's your ass if they don't do it.

You don’t pay them to do it. It’s not their job. In fact by default it is nobodies job, it’s just your own responsibility.

The registrar may see it as an opportunity to sell you another year of service but it is not their job.

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