Missed renewals
A name drops because the reminder lived in the wrong registrar inbox. Expenses and renewal signals keep one renewal calendar across every registrar.
Domain portfolio management
Domain portfolio management in one dashboard.
Domain portfolio management is keeping every domain you own accounted for: who owns it, where it is registered, when it renews, what it costs, and whether it still works. Aepto does that in one inventory with one Attention queue, across every registrar.
What does portfolio management look like in Aepto?
Folders, inventory, and the triage home for names spread across registrars.
Why do five registrar logins fail as a portfolio system?
- Registrar accounts are scattered, so nobody can answer "do we still own that?" quickly.
- Renewals surface only when finance asks, and a broken site surfaces only when a customer says so.
- Quick Add AI pulls every name into one inventory.
- Requires Your Attention turns the mess into a list you can work today, with a name on each item.
Aepto is not a registrar or an APM tool. It is the one place you see every domain and what needs attention. It is the control layer across the names you already own.
What should domain portfolio management cover?
Inventory alone is not enough. You need a path from signal to action.
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Inventory
Names, folders, and metadata across registrars so you stop hopping logins to answer basic ownership questions.
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Attention
Named failures and risks: renewals, SSL, DNS drift, uptime, and optional Content Monitoring when page content matters.
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Action paths
Watch for names you do not own yet. Status pages for clients. Webhooks for the team. Plans when volume or depth demand it.
Problems that hide until someone else notices
Concrete failures multi-domain owners already recognize.
Silent DNS moves
Nameservers or records change without a ticket. Theft Guard baselines and Attention show the drift before mail or the site points somewhere else.
Green while broken
Uptime stays green while checkout or login dies in the body. Paid Content Monitoring names that failure so you are not arguing about a ping.
Tool sprawl
One tab for ping, one for WHOIS, one for SSL, a spreadsheet for renewals. Clients get Slack screenshots. Aepto keeps ops and status in one place.
Same product. Different stakes.
- Agencies need client folders and status URLs so the next outage is a link, not a screenshot thread.
- Investors need Watch and renewals so a brandable name does not vanish quietly.
- Hosters need DNS and uptime across many properties without a separate tool per client.
- Start free with 3 domains, then unlock Content Monitoring, webhooks, regions or higher volume when the portfolio outgrows the free slice.
From inventory to a queue you can finish
- Know what you own, what is drifting, and what needs a person today. That is domain portfolio management.
- Pull names into folders. Attention surfaces renewals, SSL, DNS and uptime.
- Use Domain Watch for names you do not control yet, and a status page for clients.
- No migration needed first: visibility comes before registrar consolidation.
What you stop doing
- 01Opening five registrar tabs to answer “do we still own that?”
- 02Trusting a spreadsheet that was last edited last quarter
- 03Learning about expiry from finance or a customer
- 04Pasting monitor screenshots into Slack during every blink
How many domains can each plan hold?
Pick by the size of your portfolio. Every plan includes the same core checks.
| Plan | Domains | Alert contacts | Price |
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| Free | 3 | Account email | Free |
| Starter | 10 | 5 | $9 a month |
| Professional | 25 | 15 | $29 a month |
| Business | 50 | 50 | $59 a month |
| Agency | 150 | 100 | $129 a month |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom |
Above 150 domains, Enterprise sets custom limits. See Pricing.
Common questions
What is domain portfolio management?
Seeing every name you care about in one place: inventory across registrars, renewals, DNS and security signals, uptime, optional Content Monitoring, Watch, and a triage queue so chaos becomes a list you can work.
Is Aepto only for huge portfolios?
Free starts at 3 domains. The product is built for when the list gets real, investors, agencies, hosters, and founders with too many names, but small books can start without a credit card.
Do I have to move all names to one registrar?
No. Centralize visibility first. Migrate registrars only when the transfer cost and risk are worth it. Aepto works across registrars in the meantime.
How is this different from uptime-only tools?
Uptime is one layer. Portfolio ops also needs inventory, renewals, DNS and Theft Guard signals, expenses, Watch, and client status pages. Aepto is that control layer.
What is Requires Your Attention?
The triage queue in Aepto: named renewals, SSL windows, DNS drift, uptime failures, and (on paid) Content Monitoring issues. You work a list instead of hunting across registrar inboxes and monitor tabs.
Can agencies keep client books separate?
Yes. Folders and inventory help you group client or brand sets. Public status pages give clients a calm URL while your Attention queue stays private.
What belongs in a domain portfolio ops stack?
Inventory across registrars, an Attention queue, multi-region uptime, SSL and DNS signals, renewals/expenses, optional Content Monitoring, Theft Guard, Domain Watch, and team alerts, not five disconnected tools.
How do I get domains into Aepto quickly?
Use Quick Add AI and related discovery flows to pull names into inventory, then triage Requires Your Attention instead of hopping registrar dashboards.
Put the whole book in one place.
Start free. Add the domains that already keep you up at night.