Comparison
DropPerch vs Expirity
Expirity watches domain expiry, DNS records, nameservers and SSL certificates, with client folders for agencies. DropPerch watches expiry, registry status and SSL, and charges one flat price however many domains you add.
The short answer
Choose Expirity if you want the biggest free plan in the category, 50 domains, or you need full DNS record monitoring, imports straight from a Namecheap, GoDaddy or Route 53 account, and team roles with alerts routed per client.
Choose DropPerch if your list is long, or growing. Its paid plan is $12 a month for any number of domains, where Expirity charges $5 a month for every 50 domains past the plan's allowance. And choose it if you want an email when a domain goes into redemption, pending delete or on hold, not only before its expiry date.
Side by side
| DropPerch | Expirity | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Domain expiry, registry status and SSL certificate expiry | Domain expiry, DNS and SSL monitoring for agencies, MSPs and teams |
| Free plan | 25 domains for the first 25 accounts, 5 after; no card | 50 domains, checked daily, email only; nameserver change and basic SSL expiry alerts included |
| Paid plans | $12/month or $120/year, unlimited domains. Agency $39/month adds a weekly report per client | Pro $19/month for 100 domains; Agency $49/month for 200; either adds 50 domains for $5/month; 20% off yearly |
| Where expiry data comes from | The registry itself, over RDAP | The registry over RDAP, with WHOIS as the fallback |
| How often it is re-checked | Daily near expiry or in a lifecycle state, weekly otherwise; hourly in pending delete on paid plans | Every 24 hours free; hourly ("near real-time") on Pro and Agency |
| Expiry reminders | 30, 14, 7 and 1 days before expiry | 30, 7 and 1 days before expiry; up to 6 custom thresholds on Pro and Agency |
| Alerts on registry status (hold, redemption, pending delete) | Yes — on hold, redemption, pending delete and release | Tracks grace period and status flags; alerts on redemption, pending delete or hold are not described |
| Alert channels | Email digest; Slack, Discord and webhooks on paid plans | Email; Slack, Discord and webhooks on Pro and Agency |
| Also monitors | SSL certificate expiry; nameserver and registrar changes on paid plans. No uptime checks | Nameserver changes on every plan; DNS records, registrar changes and SSL chain on paid plans; import from Namecheap, GoDaddy and Route 53; client folders on Agency |
Other vendors' details are from their own published pages, checked 11 November 2026. Sources are listed at the end of this page.
The free plan
Expirity's free plan is the more generous one, and it is worth saying so plainly. It covers 50 domains, checks them once a day, sends expiry alerts at 30, 7 and 1 days by email, and includes nameserver change alerts and basic SSL expiry alerts. It does not expire and needs no card.
DropPerch's free plan covers 25 domains for the first 25 accounts and 5 after. It sends reminders at 30, 14, 7 and 1 days, an alert when a domain goes on hold or into redemption or pending delete, and SSL certificate expiry alerts. Nameserver and registrar changes are recorded on the free plan, but the email for them is a paid feature. New accounts get every paid feature for 14 days, with no card.
Price as the list grows
This is where the two part ways. Expirity prices by domain count; DropPerch's paid plan does not.
- 50 domains: free on Expirity. On DropPerch, free for the first 25 accounts up to 25 domains, then $12/month.
- 100 domains: $12/month on DropPerch; $19/month on Expirity Pro.
- 300 domains: $12/month on DropPerch. On Expirity, Pro's 100 domains plus four 50-domain packs: $19 + $20 = $39/month.
- 1,000 domains: $12/month on DropPerch. On Expirity, Pro plus eighteen packs: $19 + $90 = $109/month.
Expirity's paid plans include things DropPerch does not have, such as DNS record change alerts and custom alert thresholds, so for a small list the comparison is not price for price. For a domain investor or an agency holding hundreds of names, the gap is real.
Dates versus states
Expirity's homepage says it tracks the grace period and status flags, and its documentation describes alerts at set days before the expiry date. It does not describe an alert when a domain changes registry state.
The states are what tell you a renewal actually failed. A domain past its date can sit safely in auto-renew grace, or it can move into redemptionPeriod, where getting it back costs a restore fee, and then into pendingDelete, where nobody can renew it. A domain on clientHold has already been pulled from DNS, so its site and email are down. DropPerch emails you when a watched domain enters any of these, on every plan. The redemption vs pending delete guide explains what each one costs you.
How often each one looks
Expirity checks free domains every 24 hours and paid ones hourly. DropPerch reads a domain from the registry daily once it is near expiry or in any lifecycle state, and weekly while nothing is happening; paid plans re-check names in pending delete through the day. Both read the registry over RDAP. Expirity falls back to WHOIS where a registry has no RDAP service; DropPerch says so instead, and the RDAP support by TLD page lists which extensions that affects.
Getting your domains in
Expirity's Pro and Agency plans connect to a Namecheap, GoDaddy or Route 53 account and import its domains, and take CSV uploads; on the free plan, domains are added by hand. DropPerch has no registrar connection, so it never holds a registrar API key. It takes the CSV export that GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare, Porkbun or any other registrar produces, reads only the domain column, and does that on every plan, free included.
For agencies
Expirity's Agency plan, $49 a month for 200 domains, adds unlimited client folders, alerts routed to a separate Slack channel, webhook or inbox per client, and admin, editor and viewer roles. DropPerch's Agency plan, $39 a month with no domain cap, sends each client a weekly report on their own domains instead. One is built for a team sharing a dashboard; the other is built for showing clients the work. The agency guide covers what each approach is good for.
Where Expirity is the better choice
- You have up to 50 domains and only need daily email alerts. Expirity's free plan covers them all, with nameserver change alerts included.
- You want alerts on any DNS record change: A, MX, TXT and the rest. DropPerch alerts on nameserver and registrar changes, not on individual records.
- You want domains pulled straight from your registrar account, or a team with roles and per-client alert routing.
Sources
Checked . Prices and plans change; where this page and a vendor's own page disagree, theirs is right.
Common questions
Is Expirity free?
Expirity's Starter plan is free for 50 domains, with daily checks, email alerts at 30, 7 and 1 days, nameserver change alerts and basic SSL expiry alerts. DropPerch is free for 25 domains for the first 25 accounts and 5 after, with registry status and SSL alerts included.
How much does Expirity cost for more domains?
According to its pricing, Pro is $19 a month for 100 domains and Agency $49 a month for 200, and either adds 50 domains for $5 a month. 300 domains on Pro comes to $39 a month. DropPerch is $12 a month with no domain cap.
Is DropPerch an Expirity alternative?
For domain expiry, registry status and SSL expiry, yes, and it costs less once a list passes 100 domains. For full DNS record monitoring, registrar account imports or team roles, no.
Is expirity.com the same as Expirity?
The Expirity monitoring service is at expirity.io. On 11 November 2026, expirity.com redirected to a domain sale listing.
Try it on your own domains
DropPerch reads each domain from its registry every day and emails you before it expires, and the moment one goes on hold, into redemption or pending delete. Any registrar, no transfer.