Misk.com Domain Expiration Policy

Last Updated on: April 17, 2007

 

The policy below applies to domain registrations on which Misk.com is the listed registrar. The registrar of your domain name is listed in your control panel's domain management page or can be obtained by contacting the Misk.com Support Team. The registrar can also be found by performing a whois lookup. Some of the domain names you register with Misk.com may be registered through Tucows. If the registrar listed on your domain name is Tucows (OpenSRS), the applicable deletion policy is available at http://resellers.tucows.com/contracts/tld/exhibita.

Domain names are registered for fixed periods that are subject to renewal. We send several communications to customers and/or the agents acting on their behalf alerting them that their domain name registration services will expire on a certain date. It is important that there is a valid and working email in customer accounts for customers to receive these types of communications. If a customer does not renew the domain name registration by the expiration date, the domain name registration is subject to deletion at any time after that. In an effort to help our customers avoid unintentional deletion of their domain names registration(s), we may, but are not obligated to, provide our customers with a "grace period" after their domain name registration services expiration date(s) (a "grace period" begins on the day after the date of expiration). We currently endeavor to provide a grace period that extends 40 days past the expiration date, to allow for the renewal of domain name registration services. During this period a customer can renew a domain name registration; however, a grace period is not guaranteed and can change or be eliminated at any time without notice. Consequently, every customer who desires to renew his or her domain name registration services should do so in advance of the expiration date to avoid any unintended domain name deletion. The .EU registry does not offer a grace period. Hence, .EU domains are deleted on their expiration date.

If an expired domain name registration is not renewed as outlined above, absent extenuating circumstances, we will delete the domain name registration. Registry Operators may provide registrars with the ability to "redeem" a deleted domain name for a customer, and we, in turn, may (but are not obligated to) provide customers with an ability to redeem a particular domain name registration. Such a Redemption Grace Period (RGP) is not guaranteed and customers should renew their domain name registration services in advance of the domain name registration expiration dates to avoid deletion of domain names registration services. Currently, the Registry Operators provide an RGP for 30 days from the date of deletion. If we decide to provide the redemption service to a customer, we charge a fee of $150 to redeem plus a renewal fee to renew a domain name registration during the RGP. If the domain name is not renewed by the expiration of the RGP, it is then placed on "Pending Delete" status for five additional days, after which it is deleted and the domain name character string is then once again available for registration.

In the event a domain name is the subject of a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) proceeding and expires or is deleted during the course of the dispute, the party that filed the UDRP proceeding has the option to renew or restore the domain name under the same commercial terms as the original customer. If the case ultimately is terminated or the arbitrator finds against the filing party, the name will be deleted within 45 days.