Most companies do not know exactly what domains they own, what they cost, who controls them, or what risks they carry. The portfolio grew organically, registrations were made by departing staff, acquisitions came with their own inventory, and renewals happened automatically until they did not. The result is a category of digital infrastructure where the actual state is rarely the assumed state.
A domain audit produces clarity. We review every domain in your portfolio against operational, security, financial, and strategic criteria, and deliver a prioritised action list covering what needs to happen first, what can wait, and what does not need attention at all. The work is methodical, the output is actionable, and the engagement is bounded by scope rather than open ended.
For most clients, the audit is a one time engagement that produces a baseline. From that baseline, ongoing governance becomes possible. Renewal cycles can be reviewed against documented inventory rather than estimated from invoices. New registrations can be approved against documented criteria. Risks can be tracked rather than discovered. The audit pays for itself by preventing one or two of the incidents most portfolios eventually experience.
A complete inventory and assessment of all domains held by your organisation.
Analysis covering ownership, registrar, security, cost, expiry exposure, and strategic alignment.
A prioritised action list addressing highest risk and highest value items first.
Documentation suitable for governance, audit, and future strategic planning.
Optional remediation support to implement the highest priority actions.
Companies that have not formally reviewed their domain portfolio in over twelve months.
Organisations preparing for audit, due diligence, or M&A activity.
Teams inheriting domain operations from departing staff or acquired entities.
IT and security leaders who suspect undocumented exposure across digital assets.
CFOs and controllers who want a documented baseline for recurring infrastructure cost.
Privacy preserving review using your registrar exports and a structured questionnaire.
A written audit report with findings, risk ratings, and prioritised recommendations.
Optional remediation support to implement the highest priority actions.
Direct coordination with your IT, security, finance, and legal teams as needed.
A documented baseline ready for handoff to internal governance or external audit.
Complete visibility into your domain assets, costs, and risks.
Identified and remediated security gaps, expiring registrations, and orphaned assets.
A documented baseline suitable for governance, audit, and strategic planning.
Quantified savings opportunities and risk reduction priorities.
A foundation for ongoing portfolio governance, replacing reactive renewal management.
You are preparing for a transaction and need a clean inventory of digital assets that will withstand acquirer scrutiny.
You have just inherited responsibility for a portfolio you did not build and need to understand what you are dealing with.
A registrar incident, expired registration, or brand abuse case has prompted a broader review.
You are formalising governance across recurring digital infrastructure and the domain portfolio is one of the categories.
Finance is asking why domain spend has grown, and the answer requires more than registrar invoices.
We define the scope, including which entities, registrars, and domain categories are in or out. Scoping protects against drift and ensures the engagement delivers the agreed output.
You provide registrar exports, recent invoices, and answers to a structured questionnaire. Where data is missing or fragmented, we flag it and use the audit to fill the gaps.
We build a unified inventory across registrars, with ownership, cost, expiry, and configuration data normalised into one view. This single source of truth is one of the audit most valuable outputs.
We rate each domain on security, cost, expiry, and strategic alignment. The analysis produces both a risk register and an opportunity list, prioritised by impact and effort.
A written report consolidates the inventory, ratings, findings, and recommendations. The report is structured for both technical reviewers and executive stakeholders.
For clients who want to act on the findings, we provide a remediation roadmap with sequencing, effort estimates, and expected outcomes. Implementation can be done internally or with our coordination.
Typically two to four weeks depending on portfolio size and information availability. Larger portfolios with fragmented records take longer to compile but the analytical work moves quickly once data is consolidated.
Absolutely. All work is performed under formal confidentiality, with controls on data access and retention. Findings are shared only with the client team you nominate, and source data is destroyed at engagement close unless you request retention.
Frequently yes. Many audits uncover orphaned domains registered by former staff, acquired entities, or external agencies. Recovering control of these is often one of the audit highest value outcomes.
A unified inventory, risk and opportunity ratings, prioritised findings, and a recommended action roadmap. The report is suitable for both technical reviewers and executive stakeholders, with appropriate detail at each level.
Audit work is fixed fee based on portfolio scope. We provide a written fee proposal after initial scoping, before the engagement begins. There are no hidden costs or scope creep.
Yes. Most clients engage us for some level of remediation support after the audit, ranging from coordination of the highest priority actions to full implementation of the roadmap. Both are scoped separately.
For portfolios under twenty domains, a focused review is usually more appropriate than a full audit. We will say so during scoping and propose an alternative engagement structure if appropriate.
An audit produces an inventory and risk assessment. A strategy uses that diagnostic as input but extends to long term planning, action prioritisation, and governance design. Many engagements combine both phases sequentially.
The first conversation is private, costs nothing, and commits to nothing. We respond within one business day.
