HACKER Q&A
📣 victor_vad

How do you manage multiple domains?


Hello Hacker News community,

I manage over 40 domains and often face challenges related to tracking and renewing them. Have any of you experienced similar difficulties? What tools or strategies do you use to manage multiple domains and prevent accidental expirations?

My search for a solution inspired me to create a tool called KIT.DOMAINS, which helps track domain and SSL certificate expirations and provides issue notifications. I would love to hear what methods or tools others in this community use.

Thanks in advance for your responses!

  👤 pwg Accepted Answer ✓
> What tools or strategies do you use

Linux CLI tools, and cron.

This little bash script is run by cron once a month:

   #!/bin/bash

   DOMAINS="... space separated list of domains here ..."

   for dom in $DOMAINS ; do
     expire=$(whois "$dom" \
                | grep "Registry Expiry Date:" \
                | cut -f 2- -d : \
                | tr -d " ")

     printf "%-20s %-15s\n" "$expire" "$dom" 
   done | sort
When it finishes its run, cron then sends me an email of the script's output, which is a list of domains and their expire dates, sorted in increasing order.

When the one at the top gets "close enough" to now, I renew it.

👤 0xtaj
Excel worksheet, with columns for all of that. Because I, like my users, want to do everything the stupidest way fucking possible, and ensure that something gets horribly fucked up along the way.

/s