Azor

azor — the goshawk. Watches from height, then takes.

A domain is lost
quietly, or not at all.

Azor reads the registry directly. For the names you hold: when they expire, whether they can be transferred out from under you, and whether anyone can send mail as you. For the names you want: exactly how far through the drop cycle they are.

One Android app. $9 a year for as many domains as you like.

Join the launch list How domains drop
Source
RDAP — the registry's own record, not a WHOIS scrape
Checks
Expiry, lock, DNSSEC, SPF, DMARC, CAA
Backend
None. It runs on the phone
READ FROM THE REGISTRY rdap · dns
  • Expiry—
  • Lock—
  • DNSSEC—
  • Registrar—

Type a domain to read its registry record. This runs in your browser, against the public RDAP service — the same source the app uses.

Two questions about a name.

You either hold it and want to keep it, or you don't and want it. Azor answers both from the same source.

Yours

Keep what you hold

The six facts that decide whether a domain is safe, checked against the registry and against DNS.

  • Expiry — days remaining, from the registry's own date, not your calendar
  • Transfer lock — whether clientTransferProhibited is set
  • DNSSEC — whether the delegation is signed
  • SPF — whether anything says who may send as you
  • DMARC — and whether the policy is p=none, which watches but does not act
  • CAA — which certificate authorities may issue for you

Wanted

Catch what drops

A name does not go from taken to free in one step. Azor tells you which of the five stages it is at, so you know whether waiting is worth anything.

  • Status read from the registry's EPP codes, not guessed from DNS
  • Distinguishes "resolves" from "registered" — they are different facts
  • Flags the pending-delete window, which is the only one that matters
  • Says plainly when a TLD publishes no RDAP, instead of inventing an answer

How a domain is actually released.

Most people think a domain expires and becomes free. It does not. It moves through four holding stages first, and the owner can take it back in three of them.

Past expiry
The date has passed but nothing has happened. The site may even still resolve. Most owners renew here and you never hear about it.
Auto-renew grace — about 30 days
The registrar holds it for the owner, who can still renew at the normal price. Nothing is available to anyone else.
Redemption — about 30 days
Now it costs the owner a restore fee, often $80 or more. Many still pay it. Still not available.
Pending delete — about 5 days
The end. The owner can no longer recover it, and on release it is gone in seconds to whoever is fastest. This is the only stage where watching a name changes what you should do.

Azor tells you which stage a name is at. It does not place backorders, bid, or race anyone to a registration — it is a watcher, not a drop-catcher. Most expired domains are renewed by their owner, and a tool that implied otherwise would be selling you a lottery ticket.

Priced like a utility.

Checking a domain costs nothing to run — it is one HTTPS request to a public registry, made from your phone. So the free tier is real.

Free

$0

  • Three domains you own
  • Three you are watching
  • Every check, no reduced version
  • Checked when you open the app

Every check runs on your phone, so there is no reason to cripple it.

Pro

$9 a year

  • Unlimited domains, both lists
  • Daily checks while you sleep, with a push when something changes
  • Alert the day a watched name enters pending delete
  • Nameserver-change alerts — the shape of a hijack

The paid half is the watching you are not awake for. That runs on a server, which is what costs money.

Tell me when Azor ships.

One message at launch. No newsletter. Addresses are deleted automatically after 180 days.