Claude Code can uncover fresh data before you drop a domain.
I tend to view my domain portfolio renewals on a 6- to 12-month horizon.
This involves evaluating each domain name to decide whether I should renew it or let it go. If it’s for sure a renewal, I go ahead and renew it well in advance.
For domains I think I’ll let go, I turn autorenew off and lower the domain’s price on Afternic.
But that’s not the end of the story. It’s important to keep an eye on the domains I’m considering letting go. New information can change my decision to drop them.
As the expiration date nears, I keep an eye on how many exact-match searches the domain received on GoDaddy. This information is available in the GoDaddy interface for domains registered there and in the Afternic interface for domains listed there.
An additional recent one or two searches might warrant holding onto the domain if other metrics are positive.
The other thing I check is whether anyone has recently registered the domain in another extension.
Before I ever decide to let a domain go, I check DotDB to see what other extensions they’re registered in. As the expiration date nears, I check again to see if there have been any recent registrations.
I recently added Claude Code to this process to make it easier. DotDB doesn’t tell you when a domain was registered, so Claude Code is your friend.
First, I do a bulk search at DotDB for the names. This returns a list of the numbers registered and their extensions.
Next, I export the list and upload it to a Claude Code session. I ask Claude to find out if any of the registrations are recent. Here’s a prompt:
The attached sheet shows second level domains. Column E shows the extensions (top level domains) the SLD is registered in. Using RDAP, see if any of the extensions mentioned were registered this year. Provide me with the domains and dates.
Claude responded with a spreadsheet and this:
I find Claude Code is better at doing RDAP lookups than regular Claude. It also fell back to Whois for ccTLDs that don’t have RDAP.
Of course, just because a matching domain was registered doesn’t mean you should renew the domain. I check whether any of the new registrations are active and also consider which TLD they were registered in. I put more weight on domains that aren’t cheap to register.
You can go a step further if you have API access to a service like WhoisXMLAPI.
I asked Claude Code to use WhoisXMLAPI to look for domains that have recently been developed:
I’m wondering if we could see when the nameservers were last changed on any of the TLDs (regardless of when they were registered), which might show a domain was recently developed.
Claude returned a spreadsheet showing the nameserver changes and highlighted a domain with the “strongest” signals of recent activity.
You could have Claude Code automate this entire process.
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