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• What is the .com and .net Redemption Period?
• How do I bring a domain out of REDEMPTION PERIOD status?
• What happens when a domain expires?
• My domain is offline, but WHOIS says it expires next year! Why?
• Once an expired domain has been renewed, how long does it take for the services to begin working again?

The Redemption process is costly ($150.00 USD), and Registrants should renew domains before expiry or during the grace period when a renewal can be completed for no additional cost.

If you want to redeem a domain: You will have to complte a Redemption Request Form which authorizes us to charge you $150.00 USD for the domain rescue.

Note: The domain can only revert back to the original Registrant (original whois information), and it will take approximately 4-5 business days to complete the process.

The Redemption process is costly ($150.00 USD), and you are encouraged to renew domains before expiry or during the grace period when a renewal can be completed for no additional cost.

If you want to redeem a domain: You will have to complte a Redemption Request Form which authorizes us to charge you $150.00 USD for the domain rescue.

Note: The domain can only revert back to the original Registrant (original whois information), and it will take approximately 4-5 business days to complete the process."

If you have any questions about the Redemption period, please feel free to contact us via our contact form, available from the menu on the left of this page.

For .COM, .NET, .ORG, .INFO, .BIZ, .US, .NAME, .CC, and .TV the grace period is 40 days. For .CA it is 30 days.

There is no registrant grace period for .CN domains.

There are no grace periods for .DE domains. They are deleted on the day after the expiration date.

During the grace period all associated services will cease working until the name is renewed (if and when this happens). As well, name server/DNS changes will not be possible.

In this situation, if the domain's status is "REGISTRAR-HOLD", "CLIENTHOLD", "REDEMPTIONPERIOD" or "PENDINGDELETE", the domain has expired. If you look at the anniversary date of the domain it will be sometime within the past 75 days.

The reason the date in WHOIS displays next year’s date is because of the way domains are maintained by the central domain Registry when they expire. Once a domain hits its expiration date, the following things happen:

• The domain has a "temporary auto renewal" made to it by most Registries, and the Registrar is charged for this renewal. Funds are not taken from the Registrant (owner) of the domain to do this.
• The domain is put on Hold (either a CLIENTHOLD or a REGISTRAR-HOLD) by the Registrar in order to take the domain offline and give some indication to the domain owners that a renewal needs to be attended to since it wasn't made before the expiry date
• The domain is held for a duration of around 40 days, after which point a request to DELETE the domain is submitted to the Registry
• Rather than delete the domain immediately, the Registry will hold the domain for 30 days in a "Redemption Grace Period"

The expiration date may or may not change after the domain enters into the Redemption Grace Period. This depends on what type of domain it is:

• COM/NET - expiry date will revert to the original expiry when going into REDEMPTIONPERIOD
• ORG/INFO - Expiry date stays the same through the RGP period (one year in advance)
• BIZ/US - Date does not advance during the first 45 days