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Your Domain Name Expired: What Happens Day by Day, and How to Get It Back

A lapsed .com is not lost on its expiry date. Your registrar may let you renew it, usually for up to 45 days, then you can buy it back for 30 more, and it waits 5 days before anyone else can register it. What breaks in each phase, and how to recover it.

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October 21, 20268 min read