🎯 Expired Domain Sniper - Daily Drops with Backlink History

What does Daily Domain Drop Monitor do?

Daily Domain Drop Monitor downloads fresh lists of expiring, pending-delete, and dropped domains from domainreborn.com — a public aggregator built on ICANN CZDS zone files. It works as a domain expiry API alternative: no login, no browser, no proxies. Just a direct CSV download filtered and structured for immediate use.

It covers 12 major TLDs (org · info · dev · app · blog · store · tech · site · online · xyz · name · biz) and returns up to 5,000 domains per run with registration history, Wayback Machine snapshots, social signals, and Certificate Transparency data.

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Why use Daily Domain Drop Monitor?

Finding quality expired domains manually is tedious — you'd have to visit multiple registrars, export data, and cross-reference history signals. This Actor automates the entire pipeline:

• 🔍 Filter by TLD, age, and history signals — target exactly the domains that match your use case
• 📦 Structured output — JSON, CSV, or Excel ready to import into your workflow
• ⏱️ Fast runs — typically under 30 seconds with no browser overhead
• 🔁 Schedule daily — run automatically at 07:30 UTC right after the source updates
• 🔗 Integrate anywhere — connect to Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, or your own API via Apify integrations

Common use cases:

• Domain investors looking for valuable names before they hit the open market
• SEO professionals building PBNs or acquiring domains with existing backlink history
• Marketers finding aged brand domains with Wikipedia refs or social proof
• Developers building domain monitoring and drop-catching workflows
• Researchers tracking expiration trends across TLDs

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What data can Daily Domain Drop Monitor extract?

Field	Type	Description
domain	string	Full domain name (e.g. example.org)
tld	string	Top-level domain without dot
status	string	pending_delete or available
registeredAt	string	Original registration date (ISO 8601)
expiresAt	string	Expiration date
droppedAt	string	Expected or actual drop date
ageYears	integer	Domain age in years
waybackCount	integer	Wayback Machine snapshot count — proxy for historical web presence
wikipediaRefs	integer	Number of Wikipedia references
hnMentions	integer	Hacker News mentions
redditMentions	integer	Reddit mentions
ctCerts	integer	Certificate Transparency certificates issued
ctSubdomains	integer	Unique subdomains seen in CT logs
registrar	string	Last known registrar
registerUrl	string	Direct link to the domain page on domainreborn.com

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How to scrape expired and pending delete domains

1. Open the Actor and click Try for free
2. Set the status filter — use pending_delete for drop-catching (last 5 days before release) or available to find domains you can register today
3. Add TLD filters (optional) — enter TLDs without the dot: org, dev, blog. Leave empty to fetch all supported TLDs at once
4. Set quality filters — use minAge, minWayback, minHnMentions, or minRedditMentions to narrow results to domains with real history
5. Set maxResults — start with 50–100 for a test run, up to 5,000 for full lists
6. Click Start — results appear in the Output tab within seconds
7. Export — download as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Output tab, or connect to Google Sheets via Apify integrations

Schedule for daily monitoring: Open the Schedules tab, set the cron to 30 7 * * * (07:30 UTC), and configure your filters once. You'll get a fresh dataset every morning.

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How much will it cost to scrape expired domains?

This Actor is priced at $2.00 per 1,000 results.

• Free tier: includes enough platform credits to run a test with 50–100 results at no cost
• A daily run returning 1,000 domains costs $2.00/day — $60/month
• A daily run returning 5,000 domains (maximum) costs $10.00/day — $300/month

Since the source is a single CSV download (no browser, no pagination), compute costs are minimal — you're paying almost entirely for the results, not infrastructure.

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Input

See the Input tab for the full configuration form. Key fields:

• Status (pending_delete / available / all) — controls which stage of the expiration lifecycle to fetch
• TLDs — comma-separated list, leave empty for all 12 supported TLDs
• minWayback — set to 50 or higher to filter for domains with documented history
• maxResults — keep low (50–200) for targeted searches, up to 5,000 for bulk data

⚠️ .com is not available — Verisign requires separate zone file access not covered by ICANN CZDS.

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Output

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Output tab.

Example output record:

{
  "domain": "opendesign.org",
  "tld": "org",
  "status": "pending_delete",
  "registeredAt": "2011-06-14",
  "expiresAt": "2026-06-14",
  "droppedAt": "2026-07-02",
  "ageYears": 15,
  "waybackCount": 842,
  "wikipediaRefs": 0,
  "hnMentions": 3,
  "redditMentions": 1,
  "ctCerts": 4,
  "ctSubdomains": 2,
  "ctFirstSeen": "2018-03-10",
  "registrar": "GoDaddy",
  "registerUrl": "https://domainreborn.com/d/opendesign.org",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-06T07:31:00.000Z"
}

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Tips and advanced options

• status: "pending_delete" is the best window for drop-catching services — domains are in their last 5 days before release
• minWayback: 100 reliably filters for domains that had real web presence; 500+ indicates heavy traffic history
• minHnMentions: 1 or minRedditMentions: 1 finds domains with actual community presence — strong signal for brand value
• minAge: 5 + minWayback: 200 is a solid combo for domain investing
• Specify multiple TLDs (e.g. ["org", "dev", "app"]) to get separate filtered lists for each — results are deduplicated across TLDs
• Use the Apify API tab to trigger runs programmatically and integrate into your own pipeline

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FAQ, disclaimers, and support

Is this legal to use?
This Actor fetches publicly available data from domainreborn.com, which aggregates public ICANN CZDS zone files. No login, authentication, or private data is accessed.

Our Actors are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location. They only extract what the user has chosen to share publicly. We therefore believe that our Actors, when used for ethical purposes by Apify users, are safe. However, you should be aware that your results could contain personal data. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers.

Why is .com not available?
Verisign, the .com registry, does not participate in ICANN CZDS and requires a separate data access agreement. All other major TLDs in this Actor are covered via the public CZDS program.

The data looks the same every run — is it stale?
The source updates once daily between 06:00–07:30 UTC. Schedule your runs at 07:30 UTC to always get the freshest data. Running multiple times per day will return identical results.

Found a bug or need a new feature?
Open an issue in the Issues tab and I'll respond quickly. For programmatic access and integrations, see the API tab.