What do I mean by tangible assests?

Well, in the case of a web app, one of the most distinctive tangible assets is your domain name. How often have you heard of a company having trouble because their domain name didn’t get renewed in time, taken over by someone nasty or their registrar messed up?

One suggestion I saw recently was to add a test to your testsuite to make check the status of your domains along with other information such as which IP address it was pointed at, etc.

In the perl world, you can use Net::Whois::Raw to get information about the domain and check for renewal date. At some point I’d like to get a module up onto CPAN that will let me just ask for domain_ok('foobar.com'); but it will have to wait for a different day.

What other tangible assets do you test for?

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