Registrar guide

Renewing and locking a domain at Key-Systems and RRPProxy.

Where each setting lives at Key-Systems and RRPProxy, and the changes that actually stop a domain lapsing.

Where the settings are

Everything below is in your reseller's panel.

Renewing

  • Key-Systems operates largely through resellers, so you probably manage the domain elsewhere.
  • Identify the reseller from invoices, then renew through them.
  • Direct customers use the Key-Systems control panel.

Transfer lock

Set through the reseller in most cases.

Moving the notices somewhere safe

Through the reseller, or directly for direct customers.

Worth knowing about Key-Systems and RRPProxy

Another wholesale registrar behind many European hosting companies. As with Tucows, the registrar shown in a lookup tells you little about who to contact, and the answer is usually whoever sold you hosting.

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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