Keeping Track of Domain Expirations?

phutureboy asks: "Between providing hosting for several dozen web sites and consulting for a number of clients who run their own servers, lately I find myself overwhelmed with keeping track of domain expirations. Although the domains which I've personally registered are consolidated under one Register.com account, there are many others spread among multiple registrars, to which I may or may not have administrative access. It would take days or weeks of frustration to audit them all and make sure my clients' contact information is up to date. Does anyone have any tips for dealing with this mess?"

Comments

Impose some rules

[gilgongo]

The only thing you can really do is to consolidate them all to one registrar.

But then to prevent getting into the situation again, you should impose some "rules" - which is what I did:

1. All new domains must be registerd with the "approved" registrar, by you. You will not deal with any domains that are not.

2. Any domains you are taking over must transfer to the approved registrar before you will commit to managing them.

3. Any transfer away from the approved registrar automatically relieves you of any responsibility for managing the domain after that.

If clients complain, explain that the work involved in juggling multiple registrars is too much. If they insist, then negotiate a higher management rate for their domain to cover your costs.