We aren't using our blog anymore. How do we ensure it won't automatically renew?

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  colpractice · Member · Feb 26, 2014 at 2:45 pm

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  We aren’t using our blog anymore and want to ensure it won’t automatically renew next month. How do I ensure it is not set to auto renew?

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Feb 28, 2014 at 9:08 pm

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  Hi there,

  After looking into your account, I found that your auto-renewal has been disabled for all your upgrades.

  We don’t recommend letting a domain lapse if you want to keep it, for the following reasons:

  * Domain expirations don’t happen immediately. Registrars have a grace period of 30–90 days during which they’ll hold on to the domain and give the owner a chance to renew it after it’s expired. The domain isn’t usable by anyone else during this period, and it wouldn’t be pointing to your site during this time either.

  * Once that grace period is up, there is a good chance that the domain could get purchased by someone else before you have a chance to re-register it, in the hopes that they can charge you more to get the domain back.

  You can find more information concerning the expiration, mapping, and transfer of domains here:

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  Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!