Renew a .LY domain and what happens at expiry
Renew a .ly domain from your reg.ly account, any time before it expires. Miss the date and the name stops working 1 day after expiry, and you can still bring it back: renew it during the 45 days of grace, or we restore it at no fee during the 30 days of redemption.
How to renew
Sign in and renew it from your account, or use renew a domain. A one-year renewal is $75.00. You can renew for 1 to 10 years at a time, and the price for more than one year is shown at checkout. Every .LY price.
The reminders
We email about 60, 30 and 7 days before a name expires, and 5 days after. They're a courtesy: renewing stays up to you.
What happens if you don't renew
- Grace, 45 days. From 1 day after expiry the registry puts the name on serverHold: it leaves the zone and stops working. Renew it and it comes back.
- Redemption, 30 days. From day 45 the name is in redemptionPeriod. We can restore it, at no fee.
- Pending delete, no fixed length. After redemption the name is pendingDelete: only the registry can restore it now, and the registry decides when it is purged.
- Available. The name is deleted and open to anyone to register.
The .LY guide shows the whole lifecycle in one figure.