About Domains With No Grace Period
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- Domains with no Grace Period
- FAQs
Your domain may expire either because the auto-renew option was turned off in your account, or because your payment was unsuccessful. In both cases, your domain usually enters the Grace Period.
Some domain endings do not have a Grace Period, during which your domain is reserved for you after it expires. Instead, these domains enter a Redemption Period of 30 days, giving you one last chance to retrieve your domain (for an additional cost) before becoming publicly available.
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Domains with no Grace Period
The following domain-endings do not have a Grace Period:
- .at
- .be
- .ch
- .co.at
- .com.br
- .or.at
- .de
- .fr
- .me
- .mx
- .nl
Important:
The .me domain does not have a grace or redemption period. These domains are released immediately.
FAQs
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