.BID Domain Registrations

You do not need to procure a hosting account in order to register a domain. However if you wish to serve a website or have email for your .BID domain you will need to point the domain at a hosting provider of some sort

The .BID TLD supports WHOIS Privacy Protection, you will be able to add this optional service during your registration checkout.

Unfortuently no. Domain Registrations are not refundable by the global registries, so we are unable to offer refunds on domains once registered.

If a domain is not renewed before its expiration date, it will be suspended by the registrar, breaking any email and web traffic destined to the domain.

There is a 40 day Grace Period during which the original registrant may renew their expired domain for the normal renewal price.

At this point the domain enters a 30 day Redemption Period. During this time the the domain may still be renewed by the original registrant, but the process is longer, more involved, and more costly. The normal price of the renewal plus a $158.60 USD Redemption Fee is required to restore the domain.

After this period, the domain will go into a 'Pending Delete' stage, the length of time of which varies per TLD, after which the domain will become available for anyone to register.

Clients are able to renew their registrations via the client portal at any time.

Our system will being sending renewal reminders 45 days before a domain expiration date.

In addition, provided we have a valid payment method on file for you, and you have not elected to disable the auto-renew function of your domain registration, we will attempt to process the renewal for you automatically on your expiration date.

While we'd love to provide both your domain registration and your web hosting, you are always free to choose seperate providers for each. You'll just need to point your domain to nameservers your provider gives you.