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# Manage renewal for a domain

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## Manage renewal using the control panel

By default, automatic renewal of domain names is enabled. You can check this by clicking on a domain. This will take you to the domain's overview, where you can see the automatic renewal status.

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About a month before the renewal, you will receive an email from Glesys notifying you that the domain will be renewed.

If you want to disable automatic renewal, click on **Turn off auto renewal**. Please note that if you disable auto-renewal, the domain will expire when the current term ends. Someone else can then register the domain. Therefore, you should not disable automatic renewal unless you intend to let go of the domain.

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If you want to renew the domain immediately or for multiple years, click **Renew Domain**.

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In the drop-down menu, you can select the number of years you want to renew the domain.

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Once you have selected the number of years, click **Renew**.

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## Manage renewal using the API

To activate or deactivate auto-renewal for a domain using the [API](/platform/control-panel/api.md), use the [domain/setautorenew](https://github.com/GleSYS/API-docs/wiki/API-Documentation#domainsetautorenew) endpoint. To renew a domain immediately or for perhaps multiple years, use the [domain/renew](https://github.com/GleSYS/API-docs/wiki/API-Documentation#domainrenew) endpoint.


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