---
title: "Get an alert when a domain becomes available"
type: "page"
canonical: "https://unique.domains/ai/pages/use-cases/domain-available-alert.md"
markdown_source: "https://unique.domains/ai/pages/use-cases/domain-available-alert.md"
human_page: "https://unique.domains/use-cases/domain-available-alert"
last_updated: "2026-11-13"
visibility: "public"
product: "Unique Domains"
---

# Get an alert when a domain becomes available

Last updated: 2026-11-13
Version: 2.34

## Short answer

Watch the name in Unique Domains with the condition Becomes available: when our check finds it free to register, an email reaches you within ten minutes.

## What this page is

Use this page when a domain investor wants an email when a taken domain becomes free to register, and wants to know how expired names drop and what a backorder is.

## Who this is for

- investor: use this page when the goal matches the workflow described above.

## How to evaluate this page

### Fit

Whether the visitor holds or buys domains as an investor and needs this one job done in the product rather than by hand.

### Ownership

Whether the job needs the record, the price, the renewal or the sales a name carries, read before acting.

### Risk

Whether acting late, or on an asking price or an estimate alone, would cost the visitor the name or overpay for it.

## Recommended next actions

- Add to Watchlist
- Open the Domains Database

## What not to assume

- The email leaves within ten minutes of our check recording the name as free to register, not within ten minutes of the drop itself.
- An alert does not register, hold or backorder the name; the member registers it at a registrar or backorders it at a venue.
- An exact drop day is given only on endings whose pending delete period was measured, and only once the name entered it.
- Name conditions come with the Investor plan, up to 50 names at once, one condition of each kind on a name.

## Related links

- Human page: https://unique.domains/use-cases/domain-available-alert
- AI root file: https://unique.domains/llms.txt
- Security and agent rules: https://unique.domains/llms-security.txt
- Markdown source: https://unique.domains/ai/pages/use-cases/domain-available-alert.md
- All use cases: https://unique.domains/ai/pages/use-cases.md
- Pricing mirror: https://unique.domains/ai/pages/pricing.md
- See how Watchlists follow every name you watch: https://unique.domains/product/watchlists
- Buy a domain that is already taken: https://unique.domains/use-cases/buy-a-taken-domain
- Check availability from your own code: https://unique.domains/api/availability
- Check if one name is free right now: https://unique.domains/availability