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About this tool
Dates every stage of the gTLD expiry lifecycle — grace, redemption, pending delete and drop — plus transfer locks and renewal risks.
Domain Expiry and Renewal Planner turns one expiry date into the full gTLD lifecycle: the registrar's renewal grace, the 30-day redemption grace period, the 5-day pending delete window, and the day the name drops to the public. It also dates the ERRP reminder emails your registrar is required to send, the 60-day inter-registrar transfer lock, and the last safe date to start a transfer. Built for anyone responsible for a domain that a business, its email or its certificates depend on.
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Grace, redemption, pending delete and drop are calculated from your own expiry date and registrar grace period.
ERRP requires DNS resolution to be interrupted after expiry, so the outage starts before the name is at risk.
Auto-renew off, a stale registrant email and a registrar account without two-factor cause more losses than forgetting the date.
For a gTLD, the registrar's post-expiry renewal grace comes first — anything from 0 to 45 days, set by the registrar — then a 30-day Redemption Grace Period where recovery requires a restore and a redemption fee, then 5 days of Pending Delete where nothing can be restored. After that the name is released and anyone can register it.
Because the Expired Registration Recovery Policy requires the registrar to interrupt DNS resolution for an expired name rather than let it keep working silently. Most registrars redirect the name to a renewal notice page within about a week of expiry, so the site and any email on that domain stop long before the name is genuinely at risk.
The ICANN Transfer Policy blocks an inter-registrar transfer within 60 days of the initial registration and within 60 days of a completed transfer. A change of registrant can also trigger a 60-day lock depending on your registrar and the current version of the policy. Separately, the registrar lock status clientTransferProhibited has to be cleared and an authorisation code obtained before a transfer will start at all.
The per-year price is rarely much lower, but the risk is. Every renewal cycle is another chance for an expired card, a bounced reminder or a departed colleague to cost you the name, and a redemption fee is typically several times a normal renewal. Multi-year registration plus working auto-renew and a monitored shared mailbox removes most of that exposure. This is informational only — confirm the actual fees and grace periods with your own registrar.