Would You Let Automation Mark a Domain “Do Not Renew” Without Approval?

[NiceNIC]

Automation is useful when a hosting or domain account has a long list of routine renewals.

The risky part is the exception.

A domain marked “do not renew” might still belong to a customer project, email setup, redirect or service that is easy to miss in a bulk review.

That makes expiry a much more sensitive action than renewal.

Would you let automation mark a domain “do not renew” without human approval?

 

[bigredseo]

Would you let automation mark a domain “do not renew” without human approval?

The short answer for me is no. I'd let automation flag all the domains that are potentially "do not renew" and then do a manual review. So if I'm auditing what domains I have, here's how I think it would flow;

Export all domains from providers with renewal dates and renewal status. Dump all that into Excel.
Review manually, with a separate column indicating which ones I know we want to keep.
Then either filter or toss back to AI and have it filter only the ones with unknown status.

Having said that, I don't even know if I'd trust AI to actually return ALL values. They have a habit of leaving things off for some reason.

 

[NiceNIC]

The short answer for me is no. I'd let automation flag all the domains that are potentially "do not renew" and then do a manual review. So if I'm auditing what domains I have, here's how I think it would flow;

Export all domains from providers with renewal dates and renewal status. Dump all that into Excel.
Review manually, with a separate column indicating which ones I know we want to keep.
Then either filter or toss back to AI and have it filter only the ones with unknown status.

Having said that, I don't even know if I'd trust AI to actually return ALL values. They have a habit of leaving things off for some reason.

Thanks, that is a very practical way to handle it.

The part about AI leaving values out is exactly what worries me. If it misses a note or a column, annoying. If it misses a domain that still has email, DNS, redirects or a customer project attached, that is a much bigger problem.

So yes, flagging is fine. Final "do not renew" should still be a human review.