For many domain names we’ll add a free year to the renewal date when the domain is transferred to Obvi8. To check if your domain names are eligible contact our Sales Team and they’ll let you know.

Some domains are transferred instantly, so they’ll appear in your MyObvi8 account straight away.

.com, .net, .org and most other domains take 5-7 days to transfer. Your website and emails remain live during this time – this is just the time it takes the registry to process the transfer.

No, you cannot buy a domain name permanently. The registration of domain names works on yearly contracts. You can pay upfront for up to 10 years to have your TLD secured.

Your domain can be se to autorenew, that means you don’t have to worry about your domains expiring.

We will send you a reminder to renew your domain name one 20-30 days prior to the expiry date. You can renew the domain registration manually from the renewal section in your account at any time.

If your domain name registration has expired, the domain will enter the process of being deleted from the registry and you will lose control over the domain name. When the process is complete, it will be freely available for anyone to register.

For most TLDs (like .com, .uk, .org etc.) we offer a 30 day grace period to renew the registration. After this there is a 30 day redemption period in which you can still renew the registration, but there is an extra fee for this process.

There are some TLDs which are regulated in a way that don’t allow for a grace and/or redemption period (e.g. .io) and are directly available for anyone to register when expired.