When a domain registration expires, your renewal options vary depending on when your domain expires. On August 31, 2013, ICANN adopted the Expired Registrations Retrieval Policy (ERRP), which requires registrars to disclose important information to registrants and potential customers about expiration notices, fees and charges. refund procedures. All required information and disclosures currently exist in various places on our website. However, to help registrants, this article contains links to all of the items required in the new policy.
Each domain name extension and its registry rules can affect the renewal process after a domain has expired. Some domains, such as ccTLDs, may have special requirements for renewals.
We will send you several emails to notify you of the expiration within 30 days of and 30 days after the expiration date of your domains.
Expiration calendar
| Days after domain expiration | What happens? | What you can do |
| Expiration day | First attempt to renew the domain. | The domain can be renewed manually in your account at the standard renewal price. |
| Day 5 | Second attempt to renew the domain. | If the renewal fails, we park the domain name. This means DNS is down and your email / website will stop working. The domain can be renewed manually in your account at the standard renewal price. |
| Day 12 | Third attempt to renew the domain. | The domain can be renewed manually in your account at the standard renewal price. |
| Day 19 | The domain is put on hold and is no longer active in your account. | The domain can be renewed manually in your account with the applicable redemption fees. |
| Day 26 | The domain is put up for auction with an expired domain | You can manually recover your expired domain name with applicable redemption fees, or place a bid on the domain through an auction. |
| Day 30 | If there are no active auctions on the domain, the domain will remain in your account with the status Expired. | You can manually recover your expired domain name with applicable redemption fees, or place a bid on the domain through an auction. |
| Day 36 | If there are no back orders and no bidders in the domain name auction, we list the domain name in a final closing auction. | You can manually recover your expired domain name with applicable redemption fees, or place a bid on the domain through an auction. |
| Day 41 | All auctions end | The domain is no longer available to bid. |
| Day 42 | If there have not been any successful auctions or pending orders, the domain is removed from your account and returned to the registry. | You will no longer be able to bid or renew your domain name. You may be able to register the domain after the registry publishes it. We cannot tell you when the registry can release a domain for registration. |
Some domains, such as ccTLDs, may have special requirements for renewals.
