Domain Renewals And Expiry
Domains bought through OxyPages renew automatically, starting 30 days before expiry, charged to your saved card. A failed charge is retried roughly daily up to 8 times; after that auto-renew turns off and the domain will genuinely expire. Expired domains can be lost, so keep your card working.
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A domain bought through OxyPages renews automatically. Starting 30 days before the expiry date, the renewal is charged to the card saved on your account, and Stripe emails you the receipt. Each domain's Renewals page (Domains, then Manage on the domain) shows its expiry date, its yearly renewal price, and the auto-renew toggle.
If The Renewal Charge Fails
A failed charge is retried roughly once a day, up to 8 attempts, and you get an email each time. Fixing your card is enough - the next attempt goes through. You can also pay the open renewal invoice yourself through Manage Billing on the Billing page; paying it completes the renewal.
After the 8th failed attempt, auto-renew is switched off for the domain and no more attempts are made. From then on the domain will expire unless you renew it.
If a charge succeeds but the registration renewal itself fails, the charge is refunded automatically.
Expiry Is Real
There is no free fallback for an expired domain - it genuinely stops working. After the expiry date the registrar allows a grace period of about 30 days where renewal is usually still possible, but after that the domain can be released or auctioned and may be lost for good. Your website itself stays online at its free myoxypages.com subdomain; only the expired domain stops serving.
With auto-renew off, the Renewals page warns you plainly: the domain will expire unless renewed.
Extending In Advance
The Renewals page also has Extend Registration. You can prepay extra years at the regular renewal price, and they stack on top of the current expiry date - useful before a long trip or to lock the name down for years ahead.