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In today’s hyper-connected world, having an accessible website is a vital part of a business – an effective website provides valuable information and encourages customer trust. 

But website downtime can have severe consequences, from damaging your brand’s reputation to impacting your bottom line. The cost of downtime can extend into the thousands of pounds. 

When you renew a domain, you extend your period of ownership. Every domain has an expiry date, and every renewal pushes that expiry date further into the future.

Even if your domain is months or even years away from expiring, you can still renew it now. However many years you add, they’ll take effect after the expiry date.

Four reasons to be proactive

There are plenty of reasons to renew domains before the reminder emails start to arrive. Here are a few of our favourites.

Lock in today’s prices

Domain prices have the unhappy habit of rising over time. If you want your domain to stay active for years in the future, you can pre-pay for that extra time today. Then who’ll be feeling smart when the next price hike arrives?

Have extra certainty

It’s not likely that a domain will…

Many websites use various anti-bot mechanisms to detect and prevent bots like web scrapers from accessing their content. The most prominent techniques include IP blocking, CAPTCHA tests, honeypot traps, and device or browser fingerprinting.

Top 5 Patterns Websites Detect as Bot Activity

Most websites will block your web scraper if you do the following.

Sending multiple simultaneous HTTP requests from one IP address

Sending several simultaneous HTTP requests from one IP address may not block your web scraper, but raising that number to tens or hundreds will. It appears as a bot-like activity because a human can’t send that many concurrent HTTP requests.

Not adding random delays between requests

Sending multiple HTTP requests without randomised delays doesn’t appear human….