Add your first website

Adding a website is the first thing you do in TLDTrack, and it takes under a minute. You type in the address, TLDTrack goes and finds out what it can about the site on its own, and its SSL, DNS and domain expiry checks begin straight away.

Adding a site

You add sites from the Monitors page, which lists every website you are watching. Adding one is four short steps:

1. 1
   Open the Monitors page.
2. 2
   Click Add domain and enter the domain or website address, for example yourbusiness.com. You can paste the full address with https:// in front, and even a www. prefix or a trailing path; TLDTrack strips all of that back to the bare domain for you.
3. 3
   Confirm. TLDTrack looks up the public details automatically, so there is nothing technical to fill in.
4. 4
   Open the new site and review its Monitoring tab to see which checks are running and switch on the ones you want.

What happens the moment you add it

Adding a site is not just saving a name to a list. As soon as you confirm, TLDTrack does a few things behind the scenes:

• It cleans the address down to the bare domain, so https://www.yourbusiness.com/about and yourbusiness.com both end up as the same site.
• It checks for duplicates, so you cannot accidentally add the same site twice.
• It runs a registration and DNS lookup (RDAP first, then WHOIS), pulling back the registrar, the registration and expiry dates, the nameservers and the DNS records.
• It runs an SSL check, recording who issued the certificate and when it expires.
• It saves the site and takes you straight to its own page, with a note confirming that WHOIS data was imported when the lookup found it.

What you will see next

A few moments after you confirm, the new site appears in your Monitors list and its own page opens, where each kind of check has its own tab. The details from the lookup, such as the expiry date, the certificate and the nameservers, fill in as they come back, so from that first visit you already have a live picture rather than a form still waiting to be completed. From here you decide which ongoing checks should watch the site, on its Monitoring tab.

Choosing which checks to run

Every site has a Monitoring tab, and this is where you turn individual checks on or off for that one site. This is deliberately per-site: you might want full uptime monitoring on your live shop, but nothing on a staging copy or a holding page. Switch each check on where it earns its place and off where it would only add noise. If a whole feature area is missing from the tab entirely, that is not a per-site setting: it is controlled at the team level by modules, which an admin turns on or off for everyone at once.

Adding lots of sites at once

If you look after several websites, you do not have to add them one by one. Use Import on the Monitors page to add many sites in a single go. Imported sites land in the same list, their registration details are looked up in the background, usually within minutes, and their SSL and DNS details fill in as the regular checks reach them. You then set the checks you want from each site's Monitoring tab, or switch a check on for many sites at once in monitoring management.

What's next

• Learn what the checks do, starting with uptime monitoring.
• See how modules let you switch whole features on or off.
• Get to know your dashboard, your home screen for everything you watch.

Where to do this