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. $2.99 once 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.

Screens from the app. Every value in them was read from the registry at the moment the picture was taken.

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
The Mine screen: seraf.dev expiring in 182 days at Namecheap with DNSSEC and CAA missing, and khuldgame.com at Cloudflare with no SPF and no DMARC, each finding naming the record to publish.

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
The Watch screen: three wanted names, each marked Registered with the expiry date on record and the note that there is nothing to do but watch, above a panel explaining the release stages.

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.

Put it on your phone.

Not on the Play Store yet. Download the APK and install it directly — Android will ask you to allow installs from your browser the first time.

Android APK · 52 MB Tell me when it is on Play

Signed by Seraf Inc. — SHA-256 fb53 58a3 3d7a ced3 d177 4122 7067 a3ca bf8e d4c0 2a84 5c04 e936 4886 2714 da86. Check it before you install: apksigner verify --print-certs azor-android.apk. An APK that reports CN=Android Debug is not ours — that key is public and anyone can sign with it.

$2.99, once.

Buy it on Google Play and it is yours. No account, no subscription, no in-app purchase, and no limit on how many domains you add.

Everything

$2.99 one payment

  • As many domains as you like, on both lists
  • Expiry, transfer lock, DNSSEC, SPF, DMARC, CAA
  • The full drop cycle, read from the registry's own status codes
  • Checked whenever you open the app, as often as you like
Get it on Google Play

Google handles the payment and the refund window. We never see a card, and there is nothing to cancel.

What it does not do

Azor checks when you ask it to. It does not watch while you sleep, because that would need a server, and a server is the thing that turns a one-off price into a subscription.

  • No background polling, no push notifications
  • No account, so nothing to breach
  • No backorders, no bidding, no racing a registration

Every lookup is made from your phone, straight to the public registry. Nothing passes through us.

Tell me when Azor ships.

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