Why is renewal on Jan 9 2016? Only 11 months?

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  paulhirsh · Member · Feb 8, 2015 at 9:52 am

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  I registered on Feb 8. So why is renewal on Jan 9 2016? Only 11 months?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Feb 8, 2015 at 7:40 pm

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  We auto renew domains 30 days before their expiration date. Why? Since letting a domain expire means you may not be able to get it back in the future, we want to ensure that everything is taken care of in advance. We do send out notification emails before charging your card, as we try not to surprise anyone.

  You can turn off auto-renew from the “My Upgrades” page:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/

  Please let me know if you have further questions or if anything is unclear.

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  paulhirsh · Member · Feb 8, 2015 at 9:02 pm

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  Well that won’t be necessary as I have discovered that I can’t remove the dates from posts on my front page without forking out for an upgrade. I consider this very dishonest and wish to transfer my site name to another service. It’s not as if the page design is that difficult to make with simple html.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Feb 9, 2015 at 4:15 am

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  You can find instructions on pointing your WordPress.com domain to another hosting service here:

  Change a Domain’s Name Servers

  Once 60 days have passed from registration (this is an ICANN rule that all registrars must abide by), you can transfer registration of your domain to another registrar using these instructions:

  Transfer a Domain to Another Registrar

  Please let me know if you have further questions or if anything is unclear.