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How not to lose your company domain: five checks to do today
Your domain is the address of your website and your email. If it lapses, both stop working, and someone else can register it. It rarely happens through carelessness — usually the renewal reminders go to the email of someone who left the company years ago.
1. Find out when your domain expires
Enter your domain in our free domain expiry checker to see the date it is paid until and how many days are left. Less than a month? Renew now.
2. Check who the domain is registered to
Domains are often bought by a contractor, a designer or a former employee — in their own name. Legally, the address then does not belong to your company. Log in to your registrar and check that the registrant is your business.
3. Update the reminder email
Registrars send renewal reminders to the email in the registration. Use a shared company address that at least two people can access, not one person’s personal inbox.
4. Turn on auto-renewal
Enable automatic renewal at your registrar and make sure the card on file has not expired. It is the simplest protection against forgetting.
5. Turn on theft protection
A transfer lock (also called registrar lock) prevents the domain from being moved to another owner without your confirmation. It is free. Cannot find it? Ask your registrar’s support to “turn on the transfer lock for my domain”.
What happens if a domain expires
Most registrars allow you to recover an expired domain for a while, usually at a higher price. After that the address is released and anyone can register it — sometimes deliberately, to sell it back to the owner at a premium. Renew early, not on the last day.
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