Will your domain still work next month?
Some failures do not warn you first. A registration lapses and the site, the email and every ranking go with it. A missing SPF or DMARC record does not stop your mail being sent, it just means more of it is filed as spam, so order confirmations stop arriving while everything still looks fine.
Reads the public registration record and the public DNS records. Nothing is stored.
How this check works
Shipwork reads the registration expiry from the registry record, then resolves the SPF, DMARC and MX records the way a receiving mail server does. It reports the renewal date, whether one SPF record is published and how strict it is, whether DMARC is present and enforcing, and whether the domain can receive a reply at all.
Questions
- Why does the expiry date matter?
- A lapsed registration takes the site, the email and every ranking with it, and recovery is not guaranteed because anyone can register the name the moment it drops.
- What does an SPF record do?
- It lists the servers allowed to send mail as your domain. Without one, receivers cannot tell your order confirmations from forged mail, so more of them are filed as spam.
- Is p=none good enough?
- It is a start. p=none collects reports and blocks nothing, so it is worth moving to quarantine or reject once you know every legitimate sender passes.