The best time to renew a domain is before it expires!
As long as you continue to renew the domain registration, you won’t risk losing your domain name.
When your domain name exceeds its expiration date, any active site and/or email services will be disabled. You won’t lose your domain immediately once it expires, but an expired domain does mean that you’ll need to extend the registration to prevent undue downtime and subsequent deletion of the domain. Here’s the full expiration timeline.
Expiration Timeline
For most domain extensions (e.g. .com, .net, etc.), the expiration timeline is as follows:
- Upon expiring, domains enter an expired state, where site and email services are disabled. As a good-faith gesture, we include a grace period allowing you to renew your domain within 40 days of your domain’s expiration before it moves toward deletion.
This 40 day period is referred to as the Renewal Grace Period. To re-establish domain services, simply renew the expired domain. There are no fees or penalties when renewing expired domain names within this time period.
- Once the 40 days have passed for the Renewal Grace Period, expired domains enter the Redemption Grace Period, which lasts 30 days. Domains are still exclusively recoverable by their registrants during this period, however, there is an added Redemption cost, which is $99.00 for most domain extensions. This cost is in addition to the standard yearly renewal.
If the domain is not redeemed within the 30-day Redemption Grace Period, it enters the final stage of the deletion process, where it is deleted by the registry and released for registration on the open market on a first-come-first-served basis.
Domains are typically deleted 3-5 days after their Redemption Grace Period has expired, meaning the domain will be available on the market about 73-75 days after its expiration.
Afraid you might accidentally forget to renew your domain or update your credit card on file? Get peace of mind with Domain Renewal Protection, giving your domain a full year of coverage if you unintentionally miss the expiration.
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