Each domain name has its own registration and expiration dates. Most domain names can be registered for a period from 1 to 10 years. If necessary, they can be
renewed while they are still active, or they can be reactivated after their expiration date.
The Domain Registry marks any domain name as expired usually around midnight on the last day before expiration. After that, the nameservers of a domain name are changed to Namecheap parking nameservers, and the respective website and email service cease to work.
The majority of expired domain names will remain in your Namecheap account for 30 days after the expiration date.
The expired domain names will appear in the Domain List as follows:
1) Labeled with the Grace Status:
2) Labeled with the Expired Status:
After the expiration date, Namecheap
parking page will be displayed instead of your website. Keep in mind that any stored website files on your hosting account will not be affected. However, all emails that are subsequently sent to your domain name-based email address will be lost.
NOTE: If your domain name is reactivated within the
30-day Grace Period, its respective DNS settings will be restored. Due to
DNS propagation, it might take approximately 24-48 hours for any domain-related services to start working again.
The contact
information of expired domain names cannot be changed or deleted. The
Edit button in the
Domain Contacts section will be simply disabled. Unless your domain has an active and
renewed privacy protection subscription, these details will remain listed for your domain name in the public Whois until the domain is deleted by the Registry.
NOTE: After Domain Privacy service has expired, there is still a 16-day grace period when your domain name’s contact details are still protected. This service can be added
for free to any eligible domain name.
Additionally, for most gTLDs, your domain name’s contact details will not be displayed in the Whois search since the recent
GDPR implementation.
To ensure that services will not expire unnecessarily, we will send
email reminders (
30 days, 15 days, 7 days and 1 day, respectively) before the actual expiration date as well as
on the expiration date itself.
These email reminders will be sent to two email addresses (if they are different): 1) your account’s primary email address and 2) your domain Registrant email address.
You may also prefer to set up
automatic renewal for your domain names so they are renewed automatically.
That’s it!