Domain renewal and expiry: how it works

myPandos renews domains through an invoice you pay — not by silently charging a card or asking the registrar to auto-renew in the background. Here's exactly how the timeline works.

The renewal timeline

1. Before your domain expires, myPandos automatically generates a renewal invoice and emails it to you. This happens a set number of days ahead of the expiry date, so you have time to pay before anything is at risk.
2. You pay the invoice from your dashboard at https://dash.mypandos.io, the same way you'd pay any other invoice.
3. Once payment is confirmed, myPandos renews the domain at the registry automatically and updates the new expiry date on your dashboard — you don't need to do anything else.

About the "Auto-Renew" setting

Your domain's Settings tab has an Auto-Renew toggle. This is a preference that tells myPandos you intend to keep renewing the domain — it does not authorize an automatic charge to a card, and myPandos deliberately never enables auto-renewal at the registrar level either. Whether Auto-Renew is on or off, renewal always happens through an invoice you pay. Turning it off is mainly useful if you've decided to let a domain lapse and want to stop renewal reminders for it.

If a renewal invoice goes unpaid

An unpaid invoice follows the same overdue process as any other myPandos invoice — reminders, then escalating account actions if it stays unpaid. Pay it before the domain's expiry date to avoid any risk to the domain itself.

If a domain does lapse

Domain registries use a standard set of stages after expiry, and myPandos reflects the domain's real status from the registry in your dashboard:

• Expired — the domain has passed its expiry date without being renewed.
• Auto-Renew Grace Period — a short window immediately after expiry where the domain can typically still be renewed normally.
• Redemption Period — a later window where the domain is no longer resolving and reclaiming it usually costs significantly more than a normal renewal, where the registry allows it at all.
• Pending Delete — the final stage before the domain is released and becomes available for anyone to register.

Exactly how long each stage lasts and what a late renewal costs varies by registry and isn't something myPandos controls — the safest approach is always to renew before the expiry date rather than relying on these later stages.

Tips

• Keep your account email address current so renewal invoices and reminders actually reach you.
• Check your domain's expiry date any time on its Overview tab in the dashboard.
• If you no longer want a domain, simply don't pay its renewal invoice and let it lapse — you don't need to "cancel" it separately.