Grace Period
A short window right after a domain expires when you can still renew it at the normal price.
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The grace period is the short window — often around 30–45 days, set per TLD — immediately after a domain expires during which the registrant can still renew it at the ordinary price, no penalty. It is the first and cheapest of the post-expiration safety nets; miss it and the name falls into the far costlier redemption period. Exact lengths and whether the site stays up during grace vary by registrar and registry, so they should never be relied on as a renewal strategy.
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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.