🛰️ Corporate Death Signal Aggregator

🚀 Spot dying businesses in seconds. Combine RDAP registration data, DNS resolution, and live SSL certificate checks into a single risk score per domain. No API key, no registration, no manual WHOIS digging.

Looking at a vendor list, a competitor map, or a prospect database and wondering which entries are quietly turning into ghosts? This Actor pulls three independent signals for every domain you submit and combines them into a single, comparable risk score. It checks domain registration health through RDAP (the modern WHOIS standard), confirms DNS resolution against Google's public resolver, and runs a live TLS handshake against the host on port 443 to inspect the real certificate. Each signal is weighted by severity and explained in plain English, so you can sort and triage results at a glance.

The output is one structured record per domain with the registration window, registrar, status flags, DNS A records, SSL issuer and expiry, and an array of human-readable risk signals. Use it to flag a vendor whose domain expires in 17 days, a prospect whose site no longer resolves, or a competitor whose certificate has been left to lapse. Records stream into a standard Apify dataset that you can pull as CSV, Excel, JSON, RSS, or HTML, or wire directly into Make, Zapier, Slack, Google Drive, or your own warehouse via webhook.

🎯 Target Audience	💼 Primary Use Cases
Procurement and vendor risk teams	Vendor monitoring, contract renewal triage
Sales and revenue operations	Pre-outreach list hygiene, deduping dead prospects
Investment and credit analysts	Portfolio health checks, distress screening
Investigative journalists and OSINT	Watchlist monitoring of corporate web presence
Competitive intelligence teams	Tracking competitor wind-downs and rebrands

📋 What the Corporate Death Signal Aggregator does

• 🪦 Registration expiry detection. Reads RDAP events to flag domains expiring inside your warning window, plus terminal statuses like pendingDelete or redemptionPeriod.
• 📡 DNS resolution check. Queries Google's public resolver and reports the live A records, or flags the domain as critically unresponsive when nothing answers.
• 🔐 Live SSL certificate inspection. Performs a direct TLS handshake against the host on port 443, reads the peer certificate, and surfaces the issuer plus exact expiry timestamp.
• ⚖️ Weighted risk scoring. Combines all signals into a single 0-100 score and a four-level tier (low, medium, high, critical) so triage is sortable.
• 🗒️ Plain-language signal log. Each detected risk includes type, severity, and a human-readable description so reviewers know why a flag was raised.
• 📦 Bulk-friendly. One run can analyze a single domain or a million, batched with concurrent network calls so large lists complete quickly.

Every record returns the normalized domain, the risk score and level, registration expiry and registration date, the registrar name, RDAP status flags, DNS resolvability, the live A records, SSL certificate found flag, SSL issuer and expiry, days until expiry, the array of risk signals, and an ISO timestamp for when the analysis ran.

💡 Why it matters: A business letting its domain expire, dropping DNS, or abandoning its SSL certificate is one of the cleanest leading indicators of operational distress. Spotting it weeks before the public announcement gives procurement, sales, and credit teams real lead time.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: dnsARecords, dnsResolvable, domain, domainDaysUntilExpiry, domainExpiresAt, domainRegisteredAt, domainRegistrar, domainStatus, riskLevel, riskScore, scrapedAt, signals, sslCertDaysUntilExpiry, sslCertExpiresAt, sslCertFound, sslCertIssuer. All 16 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 🆕 Sign up. Create a free Apify account with $5 of starting credit at console.apify.com/sign-up.
2. 🛰️ Open the Actor. Search the Apify Store for "Corporate Death Signal Aggregator" or open the page directly.
3. 📋 Paste your domains. Drop in plain domains, www hosts, or full URLs. The Actor normalizes everything.
4. ⚙️ Tune the warning window. Set expiryWarningDays (default 90) to match how aggressive you want the medium-severity flag to be.
5. ▶️ Run and download. Click Start, watch the live log, then export the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or push it directly into your stack.

⏱️ Total time: under 5 minutes from sign-up to first result file.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any registrar, registry, certificate authority, or RDAP/WHOIS provider. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Sample domains shown above (Blockbuster, Toys R Us, Sears, Kodak, RadioShack) are illustrative public examples only.

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