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Domain Name Expiry / Domain Name put on Parking Page

Whenever a particular domain name is not renewed till the Expiry date, it would slip into the Renewal Grace Period. This Renewal Grace Period would be for 40* days (for most domain name extensions). 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 become non-functional.
 

IMPORTANT

* The Renewal Grace Period for domain names under the following extensions vary as mentioned below:

  1. Renewal Grace Period for .EU Domain Names

    The concept of Renewal Grace Period for .EU domain names is slightly different. Every .EU domain name will Expire exactly 1 year from the date of Registration (since the maximum length of registration is only a year). However, the Renewal Grace Period will be only till the  second last day of the expiring month (penultimate day of the month), post which the domain name will be deleted. Thus, different .EU domain names may have different Renewal Grace Periods. Lets take a couple of examples to demonstrate this -
     

    1. abc.eu gets Registered on 24 Jul, 2006. This domain name will Expire on 24 Jul, 2007. If abc.eu is not renewed before its Expiry Date ie. 24 Jul, 2007, it would be redirected to a temporary parking page until it is Renewed.

      If the domain name is not renewed until the Deletion date, it will be Deleted from our System on 30 Jul, 2007 (since this is the second last day of the expiring month). This domain name will have a Renewal Grace period of 6 days. It will slip into Redemption Grace Period after 31 Jul, 2007.
       

    2. pqr.eu gets Registered on 27 Jul, 2006. This domain name will Expire on 27 Jul, 2007. If pqr.eu is not renewed before its Expiry Date ie. 27 Jul, 2007, it would be redirected to a temporary parking page until it is Renewed.

      If the domain name is not renewed until the Deletion date, it will be Deleted from our System on 30 Jul, 2007 (since this is the second last day of the expiring month). This domain name will have a Renewal Grace period of 3 days. It will slip into Redemption Grace Period post 31 Jul, 2007.
       

    3. xyz.eu gets Registered on 31 Jul, 2006 and will Expire on 31 Jul, 2007. If the domain name is not renewed until the Deletion date, it will be Deleted from our System on 30 Jul, 2007 (since this is the second last day of the expiring month) and will not have any Renewal Grace Period. It will slip into Redemption Grace Period post 31 Jul, 2007.

      xyz.eu would not be redirected to a temporary parking page since the domain name would be deleted before it actually Expires.

  2. Renewal Grace Period for .INFO Domain Names

    .INFO domain names will have a 15 day Renewal Grace Period.
     
  3. Renewal Grace Period for .UK Domain Names

    Renewal Grace Period in a .UK domain name is quite different from other extensions. Any website/emails associated with a .UK domain name will stop resolving once the domain name Expires.

    You may Renew your .UK domain name anytime from 6 months before its Expiry, upto 97 days after its Expiry. If you do not Renew your domain name within 97 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.
     
  4. Renewal Grace Period for .WS Domain Names

    A .WS domain name will have a Renewal Grace Period of 30 days. However, to ensure that the current Registrant retains the ownership of the domain name, it is highly recommended that the domain name is renewed before it Expires.
     
  5. Renewal Grace Period for Third Level .COM/.NET/.ORG Domain Names

    Third Level .COM/.NET/.ORG domain names under the extensions -

    .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, .RU.COM

    will have a Renewal Grace Period of 5 days.


When a domain name** Expires, the Registry Auto-Renews it and locks our funds for the same. However, the Auto-Renewal action is not immediate, but is queued up for execution. This often takes up to 48 hours to complete.
 

IMPORTANT

  • Due to the above process in place, all Expired domain names (except the ones under the extensions listed below) display the Expiry Date one year ahead of the actual date on which the domain name has already Expired, in the Registry Whois -

    .BIZ, .US, .UK, .EU, .WS, .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, .RU.COM
     

  • ** Domain names under the following extensions will not be Auto-Renewed by the respective Registry once they Expire -

    .BIZ, .US, .UK, .EU, .WS,     .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, .RU.COM


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.

To avoid this situation, the Parking Action is maintained under process. 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, our system will complete the Parking action and readily Renew your domain name.

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

IMPORTANT

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 refresh. 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.


If you do not Renew the domain name in the Renewal Grace Period, then the domain name would be Deleted. However, should there be no back-order for the domain name, you would still have the option to Redeem it.

Reference:

Click here to know more about Domain Name Deletion >>
Click here to know more details about the Redemption Grace Period >>
 

Created on:   May 21, 2004 2:37 PM  GMT
Last Updated on:   Jun 18, 2008 10:43 AM  GMT
 
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