Registrar guide

Renewing and locking a domain at Epik.

Where each setting lives at Epik, and the changes that actually stop a domain lapsing.

Where the settings are

Everything below is in the domain management panel.

Renewing

  • Sign in and open your domain list.
  • Select the domain and renew from its detail page.
  • Auto-renew is set per domain.

Transfer lock

Under the domain's settings, labelled Lock.

Moving the notices somewhere safe

Under your account profile.

Worth knowing about Epik

Worth checking your own records rather than relying on memory here, as Epik has been through operational and ownership changes. If you hold something important there, confirm the renewal date directly.

The three that actually prevent a lapse

  • A payment card that is current. An expired card with auto-renew on is the most common cause of a lapse, and the failure notice goes to the same place as everything else.
  • A contact address that survives someone leaving. Not personal, and not at the domain that is expiring.
  • The renewal date recorded somewhere other than the registrar's email, because that is the channel that failed.

Check yours

Not sure who holds your domain?.

The free check reports the registrar, the renewal date and whether the transfer lock is on.

A different registrar?

The menus and defaults differ enough to be worth their own page.

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