: I've registered my domain name for the maximum 10 year period. How can I keep it after that? Do I have to lose my domain registered 9 years and 11 months ago? ICANN says the maximum length

@Sarah324

You can register it for up to 10 years, before it expires your registrar will email you and if you want to keep the domain you will have to pay again and that's it.

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@Berumen354

Ummm.... Good one. We registered our main domain in 1996, just paid through 2019 last year on it... same registrar. So, no the 10 year life assumption is just flat wrong.

What you cannot do, be paid for more than 10 years. What you can do, 5 years after you paid for 10 years, pay for another 5 years. It's a sliding window, prorated for the years you've already used, see?

Max length is what you can have paid up when you pay up, and has nothing to do with how long you maintain and use the domain. Renewal is being confused with expiry here, you have the use of the domain name for as long as you keep paying up.

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@Eichhorn148

There is more to Domain renewal than previously explained. When your domain expires, there is a grace period. (A "Renewal Grace Period" is the time during which a domain owner can renew an expired domain at the regular renewal price. This period typically lasts for 40 days, depending on the domain extension.) This grace period is included in the maximum 10 years a domain can be held. This can trip some people up.

So if you register a domain at a great deal, which many do, your thrifty bet is to add as many years as possible to that additional year. Trust me when I say prices go up in multiples if you wait until expiration notice. To add to the maximum time (9 years), you will have to wait until the grace period to do it or I promise it won't take. Get a jump on the bait and switch by immediately adding 8 years. After 40 days, add an additional year. Take note of any price increases (GoDaddy). The bait and switchers are not expecting you to do so and you will save $$$. The truth is price increases are what make people drop domains that are under-performing. 1 year is not enough time in many cases to make a domain successful.

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@Shelley277

Unfortunately, 10 years is the maximum amount of years, for which a domain name can be registered. If you register the domain for 1 year, you will not be able to renew it for more than 9 years. 10 is the max for domain renewal and registration. If your site is successful, you can renew the domain before it expires. If you check google's whois the expiration date is 2020-09-13. Even they do not have it registered for more than 10 years.

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@Ann8826881

Simple answer. At the end of the 10 year period, you can renew your registration again. There are domain names far older than 10 years including nearly all of mine, Google, MSN, and so forth. The 10 year limit does not mean that you lose your domain name. It means that any registration period can only be as long as 10 years at a time.

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