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Will my domain expiration date change if I renew before it expires?

ByWealth Diagram

The expiration date of a domain never changes if you renew early. Only the years changes when you add time to the current domain registration.

Don’t know if the expiration date will change?

Not knowing if the expiration date will change is a question that many people has asked.

Some people like auto renewal since you don’t have to worry about renewing, but there are other people that don’t like autopay and prefer to renew the themselves.

Example of what happens if you renew early

Imagine that you have a domain that expires on June 10, 2025. On May 28, 2025 you decide to login into your domain provider dashboard and renew the domain by adding 1 year.

The new expiration date would become June 10, 2026.

Therefore, it does not matter how early you decide to renew the domain. You can renew days early or months earlier. The Month/Date will never change. Just The year changes.

There are benefits to Renewing Early

There are some good benefits of renewing early

  • You get to keep doing. 30 days after expiration date, if you have not renew your domain, someone else can buy it and you lose it.
  • Your website is up and working. If your domain expires your website will stop working.
  • You don’t have to stress about your domain expiring.
  • If you ranking is high in the search engine, an expired domain will get affect negative since the website is not working, so you get to protect your ranking by renewing.
  • You can buy from 1 year to 5 or to 10 years. So you can add many years to your domain.

A word caution

If you have autopay, that’s great but you ought to always check to see if the auto renewal went though.

Things happens, card expires. A lot can happens in 1-10 years, you might lose your domain just because you thinking that you have autorenewal.

Final thoughts

Your domain registrar most likely will send you an auto email reminding your about the domain expiration date,

Whether you have auto renewal or not, when it comes to domain, a suggestion is to always renew early. A year is a long time, and a lot things could happens.

That’s it.

Take a calculated Risk.

Now, start and adjust as you go.

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