May 17, 2010 · by weppos

You asked, we did. We are very thrilled to announce you that the most requested feature is now available to every RoboDomain user.

Whenever you create or import new domains, you can now choose to have RoboDomain update the domain dates for you reading the values from the Whois record.

The feature works for all the domains where creation date and/or expiration date are publicly displayed in a Whois query. Unfortunately, not all the domain authorities include this information in their Whois responses, but the list of supported extensions contains some popular TLD such as .com, .net, .de, .org, .it and many others.

As usual, you can always update your domain dates in your domain overview.

In RoboDomain, domain dates are completely detached from Whois record dates.

This is because there are some special circumstances where your domain purchase and/or expiration date doesn’t match the registry record. For instance, when you first register the domain with one maintainer then you move it to an other one, the new maintainer might decide to start billing the domain from the transfer date instead of the real domain expiration.

Remember that RoboDomain expiration notifications are always based on the domain expiration date you set (or we auto-completed for you), not the Whois date.