Domain Expiration
The date a domain's registration ends; if not renewed, it begins a lapse process toward deletion.
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Domain expiration is the date a domain's registration term ends. Missing it does not instantly free the name: most TLDs run a defined lapse sequence — a grace period where you can still renew at normal price, then a redemption period with a recovery fee, and finally pending delete before the name drops. Registrars send reminders, but the responsibility to renew is the registrant's.
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Contributors
Namefi is a collective of engineers, designers, and operators who obsess over building tools that make managing your onchain domain names effortless.
Victor Zhou is a technology founder and standards editor focused on digital identity and trust. He founded Namefi, edits Ethereum Improvement Proposals, and previously led smart-contract architecture work at Google Labs.
His work sits at the intersection of naming, ownership, and the systems people use to establish identity online. That perspective makes him especially interested in the way names move between personal meaning, public recognition, and digital infrastructure.
For Namefi, Victor edits and writes about domains as durable digital identity: how names become ownable onchain assets, how tokenization changes custody and trust, and what naming can learn from the systems people use to establish identity online.