I built a domain expiry monitor, and to test it against something other than my own domains I pointed it at the "our work" pages of 30 US web design agencies — the client sites they link to publicly — and checked every domain against its registry.

The results were mildly alarming, but the interesting part was everything that went wrong on the way there.

The results first

65 client domains across 14 agencies:

1 had already expired, 60 days earlier