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My domain registration is about to expire

When a domain lapses, everything goes at once: the site, the email, and any account whose password reset depends on that inbox. Recovery after the redemption window means paying a premium or losing the name. Turn on auto-renew and check the card on file has not expired.

What 13x checks

This is rule basics.domain-expiry in the public registry: Domain registration is not about to lapse. It runs on every audit, against the pages we actually fetched, and its result is derived from the response rather than estimated.

Surface
Basics
Score weight
8 of the readiness score
Scope
Runs on every audited page
Applies
Only where the market or the page shape makes it relevant

Registry version 2026-07-30. Every rule is published, and the audit is deterministic — the same page produces the same finding every time.

The fix

The same text the audit hands you when this check fails on your own site.

The registration expires on ( days).

Do three things now:

1. Turn on auto-renew at your registrar. 2. Check the card on file has not expired. This is the actual failure mode — auto-renew is on, the card is dead, and the renewal notice goes to an address on the domain that is about to stop working. 3. Set the registrar contact to an address on a different domain, for the same reason.

When a domain lapses, everything goes at once: the site, the email, and any account whose password reset depends on that inbox. Recovery inside the redemption period costs a premium; after it, the name goes to auction.

Renewing for several years at once is cheap insurance.

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