💀 Corporate Death Signal Aggregator

Monitor business health before it's too late. This actor analyzes domain registration status, DNS health, and SSL certificate data to detect early warning signs that a company may be failing. Designed for credit risk analysts, collection agencies, and investment researchers, the Corporate Death Signal Aggregator acts as a domain failure monitoring tool without requiring technical setup. Get critical signals like domain expiration dates, missing SSL certificates, and DNS failures in one export.

The Corporate Death Signal Aggregator detects early business failure signals by analyzing domain health metrics, returning up to 14 data fields including risk scores and expiration dates.

✨ What Does It Do

• 📊 Risk Score - Get a weighted 0-100 score indicating overall business viability based on combined domain and SSL health signals
• 📅 Domain Expiry Date - Track exactly when each domain expires to catch companies abandoning digital assets
• 🔗 DNS Status - Identify domains that no longer resolve, indicating potential site downtime or abandonment
• 🔒 SSL Certificate Status - Monitor whether active domains have valid HTTPS certificates and when they expire
• 🚨 Risk Signals Array - Get detailed, categorized alerts with severity levels
• 📝 Domain Registrar Info - See which registrar holds the domain for administrative follow-up or legal action

🔧 Input

• Domains - Paste your list of domain names or URLs (e.g., blockbuster.com, www.example.org). The actor accepts both plain domains and full URLs and automatically extracts the domain name
• Max Items - Free users can analyze up to 100 domains per run. Paid users can analyze up to 1,000,000 with this optional parameter
• Expiry Warning Days - Customize the warning threshold for approaching expiration dates. The default is 90 days, flagging any domain expiring within your specified window as a risk signal

Example input:

{
  "domains": ["blockbuster.com", "toys-r-us.com", "sears.com"],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "expiryWarningDays": 90
}

📊 Output

Each domain analysis returns up to 14 data fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

📝 Domain Name	📊 Risk Score	🚨 Risk Level
📅 Expires At	🔢 Days Until Expiry	📝 Registrar
✅ DNS Resolvable	🔗 DNS A Records	🔒 SSL Found
📅 SSL Expires At	🔢 SSL Days Left	🎯 Status Flags
🚨 Risk Signals	⏰ Analyzed At	❌ Error Messages

💎 Why Choose the Corporate Death Signal Aggregator?

Feature	Our Actor	Similar Tools
Risk scoring algorithm with weighted severity	✔️	❌
Domain expiration monitoring	✔️	❌
DNS resolution validation	✔️	Partial
SSL certificate status checking	✔️	❌
Customizable expiry warning threshold	✔️	❌
Domain registrar extraction	✔️	❌
Batch processing (10 domains parallel)	✔️	❌
Free tier: up to 100 domains per run	✔️	❌
Paid tier: up to 1,000,000 domains per run	✔️	❌
No proxies needed	✔️	Partial
Structured JSON output with categorized signals	✔️	❌
Duplicate domain detection and skipping	✔️	❌

📋 How to Use

No technical skills required. Follow these simple steps:

1. Sign Up: Create a free account with $5 credit
2. Find the Tool: Search for "Corporate Death Signal Aggregator" in the Apify Store and configure your domain list
3. Run It: Click "Start" and watch your analysis results appear within seconds

That's it. No coding, no setup, no complicated configuration. Now you can export your data in CSV, Excel, or JSON format.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 📊 Credit Risk Analyst - Monitor 500 customer domains daily to spot payment default signals before collections reach accounts, adjusting credit policy before losses mount
• 💼 M&A Due Diligence Professional - Analyze acquisition targets' digital properties for DNS failures and expired registrations to uncover hidden operational issues before closing the deal
• 🔬 Fraud Investigator - Track shell company domain portfolios for expiration patterns and certificate gaps to document abandonment and strengthen enforcement cases

❓ FAQ

🔍 How does the risk scoring work? The actor analyzes four signals: domain expiration (how soon until it expires), DNS resolution (is it live), SSL certificate status (HTTPS security), and domain registration status (is it in deletion/redemption). Each signal gets a severity rating (low, medium, high, critical), and the final risk score is the weighted sum, capped at 100.

📊 How accurate is the data? Data comes directly from public registries, DNS services, and certificate transparency logs. These are the authoritative sources, so accuracy is very high. The actor queries all three in parallel for speed. Note: results are a snapshot at run time. Expiration dates change daily.

📅 Can I schedule regular monitoring? Yes. Set up a schedule in Apify to run this actor daily, weekly, or monthly. Each run creates a new dataset. You can export results to Slack, email, or a webhook for automated alerting.

⚖️ Is it legal to monitor competitor or customer domains? The data comes from public registries and public certificate transparency logs, both freely available. You're responsible for complying with local laws and the target domain's terms of service. This is passive monitoring, not active scraping of protected content.

🛡️ Will domains block me? No. The actor queries public data sources and does not directly request the domains. There's zero risk of being blocked. No residential proxies needed.

⚡ How long does a run take? Approximately 10-20 seconds for 100 domains (batched 10 at a time). For 1,000 domains, expect 2-3 minutes. Larger batches are limited by service rate limits, not local processing.

⚠️ Are there any limits? Free users can collect up to 100 results per run. Paid users can collect up to 1,000,000 results per run.

🔗 Integrate Corporate Death Signal Aggregator with any app

• Make - Automate workflows
• Zapier - Connect 5000+ apps
• GitHub - Version control integration
• Slack - Get notifications
• Airbyte - Data pipelines
• Google Drive - Export to spreadsheets

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🚀 Ready to Start?

Create a free account with $5 credit and collect your first 100 results for free. No coding, no setup.

🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify support page for documentation and tutorials
• Contact us to request a new scraper, propose a custom project, or report an issue at Tally contact form

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ICANN, WHOIS registries, Google, or crt.sh. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.