There are many article about how a domain expire? How you can grab a near expiry domain name, here we check out about how a domain expire. In case if the domain owner of does not renew domain by the expiration date of the domain, the domain goes into “expired” status. For 40 days, the domain will remain in a grace period where all services are close on, but there are chances that the domain owner may still renew the domain for a standard renewal fee. However if a domain enters this period, it is a good sign that it may not be renewed, but since the owner can re-register the domain name without penalty, you can consider it the sign of laziness or procrastination by the domain owner.

Once the 40 days of time are up, the domain’s status changes to “redemption period” and during this phase, all WhoIs information start disappearing, and if the domain owner would like to renew the domain name at this stage it’ll now costs the owner an additional fee to re-activate and re-register the domain. The fee is currently around $100, depending on your registrar to registrar. However When a domain enters into the redemption period, it’s a good sign you can guess that the owner has decided not to renew.

Finally, once the redemption period is over, the domain’s status will change to “locked” as it will enter into the deletion phase. The deletion phase is 5 days long, and on the last day between the official time 11am and 2pm Pacific time, the domain name will be officially drop from the ICANN database and will be available for registration by anybody.

However, the entire process ends exactly 75 days after the listed expiration date. For an even more detailed explanation you can check the domain name deletion policy from ICANN;