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Understanding Domain Name Expiry and Display of a Parking Page

Whenever a particular domain name is not renewed till the Expiry Date, it would slip into the Renewal Grace Period. All such domain names would be put on a temporary commercial Parking Page, which would indicate that the domain name has expired. During this period, any website and mails associated with the domain name would stop working.

Renewal Grace Period of Domains

TLD (Domain Name Extension) Renewal Grace Period (Days)
.COM 40
.NET 40
.ORG 40
.BIZ 40
.INFO 15
.NAME 40
.MOBI 40
.TEL 40
.US 40
.ME 40
.EU 0
.BZ 40
.MN 40
.CC 40
.TV 40
Third level .UK 90
.WS 40
CentralNic domain names 5
.CA 40
.XXX 40
Note

  • The above Renewal Grace Periods are applicable if your domain name is expiring today.

  • If your domain name has already expired, these values may have changed since. Contact our Support Team at wthtech@wthtech.com to confirm the Renewal Grace Period for your domain name.

  • A .EU domain name (Anchor: eurules) does not have any Renewal Grace Period. It will expire on the second last day of the month the domain name is expiring on. The domain name will be deleted on the same day, if not renewed.

    Example:

    If you register yourdomainname.eu for 5 years on 15 April, 2009, it will expire on 29 April, 2014 and will be deleted on the same day, if not renewed.

    If the domain name's Ownership Identity is modified or it is Moved/Transferred/Restored on 20 December, 2009, it will expire on 29 April, 2015 and will be deleted on the same day, if not renewed.

    Additional Information

    Ownership Identity Modification/Move of a .EU domain name

    Transfer of a .EU domain name

  • You may renew your .UK domain name (Anchor: ukrules) anytime from 6 months before its Expiry, upto 90 days after its Expiry. If you do not renew your domain name within 90 days after its Expiry, it would be automatically deleted by the Registry.

    It is important to note that there is no concept of a Redemption Grace Period in case of a .UK domain name.

  • A .NAME domain name (Anchor: namerules) will have a Renewal Grace Period of 40 days. If you do not renew the domain name in the Renewal Grace Period, then the domain name would be deleted and made available for Registration by the Registry post a Pending Delete period of 5 days, during which the domain name can not be redeemed.

  • CentralNic domain names (Anchor: crules) include:

    .EU.COM, .GB.COM, .AE.ORG, .KR.COM, .US.COM, .QC.COM, .DE.COM, .GB.NET, .NO.COM, .HU.COM, .JPN.COM, .UY.COM, .ZA.COM, .BR.COM, .CN.COM, .SA.COM, .SE.COM, .SE.NET, .UK.COM, .UK.NET and .RU.COM.

When a domain name expires, the Registry auto-renews (Anchor: autorenew) it for a period of 1 year and locks our funds for the same. However, the Auto-Renewal action is not immediate, but is queued up for execution. This often takes upto 48 hours to complete.

Note

With the exception of the following, all Domains are Auto-Renewed by their respective Registry upon Expiry:

  • .BIZ

  • .US

  • .UK

  • .EU

  • .WS

  • CentralNic domain names

  • .TEL

In case of an Auto-Renewed domain name, the Registry Whois displays the Expiry Date one year ahead of the actual date on which the domain name has already expired.

Now, if you were to add another Renewal action, the domain name would get renewed for an additional year, even though you do not wish it to get renewed for any more years than you requested.

Note

To avoid this situation, the system's Parking action is on purpose left incomplete. The domain name would bear the following status at this stage:

Action Requested: Parking of <domain name>

Status of the action: Awaiting update at Registry

Once the execution is completed at the Registry, the system will complete the Parking action and renew the domain name.

After you have renewed the domain name, it would take around 24-48 hours for DNS Propagation to complete Worldwide and the actual website to start resolving properly and mails to be received on the domain name.

Note

During this DNS Propagation period, your website may intermittently revert to the Parking Page and then change again to your actual website, depending on how ISP caches are refreshed. However, if you have already renewed your domain name, do not renew your domain name again. The Parking Page will automatically get removed as soon as the DNS propagation completes.

Once a domain name has expired, it will go to into Renewal Grace Period, where you can renew this domain name at normal costs. If you do not renew the domain name in the Renewal Grace Period, then the domain name would be deleted and the domain name will go into Redemption Grace Period generally (provided there is no backorder for this domain name). In this status you would get another chance to redeem it. 1

  1. 1. What Redemption Grace Period implies and how you can restore your domain name from this status