Understanding Domain Name Expiry and Display of a Parking Page

• The above Renewal Grace Periods are applicable if your domain name is expiring today.

• If your domain name has already expired, these values may have changed since. Contact our Support Team at https://cn.bluehost.com/create-ticket to confirm the Renewal Grace Period for your domain name.

• If a .AU domain name ^{(Anchor: aurules)} is not Renewed until 30 days after Expiry, the domain name would get Deleted and would immediately be available for Registration.

• A .CO domain name ^{(Anchor: corules)} will continue to resolve to the actual website during the initial 5 days of the Renewal Grace Period. It would then be put on a temporary commercial Parking Page for the remainder of the Renewal Grace Period.

• A .DE domain name will Expire on the 5th last day of the Expiry month, upon Registration, Renewal or Transfer.

  Examples:

  • If yourdomain.de is registered on January 1, 2011, it's Expiry Date becomes January 27, 2012 as the Registration term is 1 year and the 5th last day of January 2012 is January 27.

  • If yourdomain.de is registered on January 31, 2011, it's Expiry Date becomes January 27, 2012 as the Registration term is 1 year and the 5th last day of January 2012 is January 27.

  .DE domain names ^{(Anchor: derules)} should be Renewed prior to their Expiry date. Upon Expiry of a .DE domain name:

  • you will no longer be able to manage your .DE domain name with BlueHost China.

  • your .DE domain name will be transferred directly under the .DE Registry (DENIC). This process is called Domain Transit.

    Once your domain name has Transited to DENIC, the Registrant contact will receive instructions via postal mail from DENIC, for managing your .DE domain name with them.

    Additional Information

    What happens when your .DE domain name is Transited to DENIC?

    FAQs about Domain Transit

    Domain Transit Service Center

• Upon Expiry of an .ES domain name ^{(Anchor: esrules)}:

  • the .ES Registry would email the Admin Contact listed in the Whois of the domain name, that the domain name has not yet been Renewed and if needed, the domain name owner may transfer their domain name under the .ES Registry and then Renew this domain name with them.

  • if the .ES domain name is not Renewed until 9 days, the domain name would get Deleted and would immediately be available for Registration.

• A .EU ^{(Anchor: eurules)} domain name registered before 15 Septemeber, 2014 will not have any Renewal Grace Period. Such a domain name will expire on the second last day of the month it was registered in and will be Deleted on the same day, if not Renewed.

  Example:

  If you register yourdomainname.eu for 1 year on 15 April, 2013, it will expire on 29 April, 2014 and will be Deleted on the same day, if not Renewed.

  If the domain name is Transferred on 20 December, 2013, it will expire on 29 April, 2015 and will be Deleted on the same day, if not Renewed.

  A .EU domain name registered after 15 Septemeber, 2014 will expire at the end of its registration term. Such a domain name will have a Renewal Grace Period of 27 days and will be Deleted, if not Renewed during this period.

  Example:

  If you register yourdomainname.eu for 1 year on 20 September, 2014, it will expire on 20 Septemeber, 2015 and will be Deleted, if not Renewed till 17 October, 2015.

  If the domain name is Transferred on 20 December, 2014, it will expire on 20 September, 2016 and will be Deleted, if not Renewed till 17 October, 2016.

• The following rules apply to a .NL domain name ^{(Anchor: nlrules)}:

  • A .NL domain name can be Renewed for only 1 year.

  • You can not Renew your .NL domain name until 60 days prior to it's Expiry.

  • There is no Renewal Grace Period for a .NL domain name. It would be Deleted upon Expiry and placed under Pending Delete Restorable status.

• The following rules apply to a .RU ^{(Anchor: rurules)} domain name:

  • A .RU domain name can be Renewed for only 1 year.

  • You can not Renew your .RU domain name until 60 days prior to it's Expiry.

  • if the .RU domain name is not Renewed until 30 days after Expiry, the domain name would get Deleted and would immediately be available for Registration.

• You may renew your .UK domain name ^{(Anchor: ukrules)} anytime from 6 months before its Expiry, upto 90 days after its Expiry. If you do not renew your domain name within 90 days after its Expiry, it would be automatically Deleted by the Registry.

  It is important to note that there is no concept of a Redemption Grace Period in case of a .UK domain name.

With the exception of the following, all domain names are Auto-Renewed by their respective Registry upon Expiry:

• .AU

• .BIZ

• .CO See details

• .COM.DE

• .DE

• .ES

• .NL

• .RU

• .TEL

• .UK

• .US

• .WS

In case of an Auto-Renewed domain name, the Registry Whois displays the Expiry Date one year ahead of the actual date on which the domain name has already expired.

During this DNS Propagation period, your website may intermittently revert to the Parking Page and then change again to your actual website, depending on how ISP caches are refreshed. However, if you have already Renewed your domain name, do not renew your domain name again. The Parking Page will automatically get removed as soon as the DNS propagation completes.