Name.com allows a 25 day grace period on most expired domains. (For .CN domains, this grace period is only one (1) day.) This means that the expired domain will remain in your Name.com account for 25 days after expiration. During that period, you can still login to your account and renew the domain. It is important to note, when a domain expires, all DNS records for your domain will return to the default DNS of Name.com. This means that your website, email, etc will not function after expiration (until the domain is renewed).

If the domain is not renewed within the 25 day grace period, the domain will be removed from your account and placed in a holding account. At this point, one of two things will occur:

The domain may be placed on our 'Expiring Domains' list. Any Name.com customer can purchase domains from this list for their own portfolio. If another party purchases the domain, you will need to contact the new domain owner to discuss repurchasing the domain from that party. Name.com does not mediate these negotiations.

The domain may remain in a holding account for an additional 20 days before being returned to the registry and entering redemption. If your domain is located in a holding account, we are happy to return it to you for immediate renewal. However, if the domain has entered redemption, the domain will need to be restored.

You may restore a domain from the Redemption Period. Restoring a domain name incurs a $120.00 fee ($150 for .CN domains). We do not set the price of this fee, and must abide by it if we retrieve domain names from the central registry's database. Please note: you will also be responsible for the cost of renewing the domain.

If you choose to restore a domain name from redemption, Name.com will collect funds for the restoration and renewal. We will then restore and renew the domain on your behalf. Finally, the domain will be returned to the Name.com account it expired from.