It is the kind of outage nobody sees coming. A domain that has been renewed on autopilot for years quietly lapses because the card on file expired and the renewal notice went to an inbox nobody checks anymore. Or an SSL certificate hits its expiration date over a weekend, and by Monday morning every visitor to the site is staring at a red "Your connection is not private" warning while support tickets pile up. The work to prevent both was never hard. Somebody just had to be watching the right date, on the right domain, at the right time. That is exactly the kind of watching people are bad at and software is good at.
Today, the GoDaddy and DNSimple integrations are live in Expiration Reminder. Connect either account (or both) and we automatically sync the expiration dates for your domains and your SSL/TLS certificates, then keep those dates up to date as they change. No more copying renewal dates into a spreadsheet, no more manual audits of your registrar, and no more finding out a certificate expired from an angry customer instead of a reminder.
Domains and certificates are the two pieces of infrastructure that fail loudly and publicly when a date slips. A lapsed domain can take down email, break single sign-on, and in the worst case be snapped up by someone else the moment it drops. An expired certificate does not degrade gracefully either. The moment it lapses, browsers stop trusting the site and show a full-page security warning, APIs that depend on it start rejecting connections, and anything behind that certificate is effectively offline until a new one is installed.
This is not a hypothetical risk for small operators. Some of the largest technology companies in the world have taken down major services because a single certificate expired unnoticed, and government agencies have had public-facing systems go dark for the same reason. The failure mode is always the same: the certificate was somebody's responsibility, that person moved teams or left, and the renewal date lived only in their head or in a tool nobody else looked at.
The problem is getting harder, not easier. Certificate lifetimes are shrinking across the industry. Maximum validity has already dropped to just over a year, and the CA/Browser Forum has approved a schedule that will push it down to roughly 47 days by 2029. Shorter certificates are better for security, but they mean renewals that used to happen once a year will soon happen several times a year, per certificate. Any team tracking that manually is signing up for a standing job that only grows.
Setup is a connect-once flow. From your integrations settings in Expiration Reminder, you authorize your GoDaddy or DNSimple account. Once the connection is authorized, Expiration Reminder reads the domains and certificates in that account and creates a tracked item for each one, with the expiration date already filled in. You do not enter a single date by hand.
From there, the two integrations do two things:
Because the sync runs automatically, the dates stay honest over time. When you renew a domain and its expiration date moves out another year, the tracked date moves with it. When a certificate is reissued with a new expiration, that new date flows in on the next sync. The list in Expiration Reminder reflects the real state of your registrar and certificate provider, not a snapshot from whenever someone last updated the spreadsheet.
If you run IT or infrastructure for a company that owns more than a handful of domains, these integrations turn "which of our domains renews when" from an annual fire drill into a list that maintains itself.
If you are an agency or an MSP managing domains and certificates on behalf of clients, connecting each GoDaddy or DNSimple account gives you one place to see every client's renewal dates, so a lapsed certificate on a client's site never becomes your emergency at 9 a.m. on a Monday.
If you handle security and compliance, the certificate sync gives you a defensible, always-current inventory of what is protecting your services and when each piece needs to be renewed, which is exactly the kind of evidence auditors ask for.
If you are a small team or a solo operator wearing every hat, the value is simpler still: the one renewal you were most likely to forget is now the one you no longer have to remember.
Domains and certificates synced from GoDaddy and DNSimple are ordinary tracked items in Expiration Reminder, which means everything you already use applies to them with no extra setup. Your existing reminder cadence (90, 60, 30 days out, however you have it configured) fires on these dates automatically, and notifications go to the assigned people through the same email and SMS alerts, alert center, and mobile app that handle the rest of your expirations.
Tags, locations, and assignees work the same way, so you can group domains by client or by environment, assign a certificate to the engineer who owns it, and filter your renewals the way you filter everything else. There is nothing new to learn and nothing separate to check. The domains and certificates simply join the list of things Expiration Reminder is already watching for you.
Domain and certificate outages are almost never caused by a team that did not know how to renew. They are caused by a date that lived in the wrong place, owned by the wrong person, surfaced too late or not at all. The GoDaddy and DNSimple integrations remove the manual step where that failure hides. The dates come straight from the source, they stay current on their own, and they plug into the reminders you are already running.
One connection, and the two renewals most likely to take a service offline are now watched automatically, alongside everything else you track.
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The GoDaddy and DNSimple integrations are available on your account now. Open your integrations settings, connect your GoDaddy or DNSimple account, and your domains and SSL certificates will sync in with their expiration dates automatically. Your existing reminder rules apply to them immediately, so once they are synced there is nothing else to configure. If you manage multiple registrar or certificate accounts, you can connect each one.
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