How to Check When a Gandi Domain Expires

Gandi gives you more control over renewals than most registrars, and with it a couple of deadlines that don't exist elsewhere. Here's how to find a domain's expiry date, and the two Gandi-specific rules worth knowing before you rely on them.

Method 1: In your Gandi account

1. Log in and click Domain in the left navigation menu.
2. The domain list has two modes — Simple View and Advanced View. Advanced View adds filtering and bulk actions.
3. Click a domain name to open its management page.

Advanced View has a useful Expires filter with presets for the next 30 days, next 60 days, next 90 days and Expired, plus From and To date fields. For a quick "what's coming up?" pass across a portfolio, that filter is the fastest route.

To renew manually, Simple View shows a Renew link beside each domain; Advanced View lets you tick several and choose Renew from the menu at the bottom. Either adds to your cart, which you complete via the cart icon at the top right.

Method 2: A public lookup (no login)

Expiry is public information. Enter the domain into our free domain expiry checker to see the registry expiry date and confirm the registrar — useful for checking a domain you don't manage, or verifying what the dashboard tells you. How to check when a domain expires covers the general method.

How Gandi auto-renewal behaves

For a single domain: on its Overview page, find the section reading "Automatic renewal disabled", click Activate, set Automatic renewal status to Enabled, and choose the billing account.

For several at once: from the domain list, switch to Advanced View, tick the domains, choose Automatic Renewal from the dialog at the bottom, then set the status and billing account.

Gandi attempts renewal at 31 days, 15 days, and 1 day before the expiry date, and sends reminders two months before (billing contact), then one month, 15 days and one day before.

Trap 1: the 32-day deadline for cancelling

This is the Gandi rule that catches people out. To stop a domain renewing, auto-renew must be deactivated at least 32 days before expiry.

Because the first renewal attempt runs at 31 days out, deciding at day 20 that you don't want a domain any more is too late — it will already have renewed and been charged. If you're pruning a portfolio, work from the 32-day line, not the expiry date.

Trap 2: the expiry date isn't always the renewal deadline

Gandi explicitly distinguishes a domain's expiration date from its last possible renewal date, and for some TLDs they're very different. Their documentation gives .ae as an example: renewal is only possible until 45 days before expiration. Miss that and the domain is unrenewable while still, on paper, unexpired.

That's the opposite of the mental model most people carry — that you can renew right up to the deadline and a bit beyond. For anything outside the common gTLDs, check Gandi's deadlines page for that specific TLD rather than assuming.

The windows after expiry vary just as widely. For .com, late renewal runs to 45 days after expiry, restoration from 45–75 days, and registry deletion at 80 days. For .co.uk it's 30–90 days after. And some TLDs — .ad, for instance — have no late renewal at all: miss it and it's gone.

Don't rely on a single dashboard

Gandi's Expires filter is genuinely one of the better portfolio views in the business — but it only shows Gandi domains, and it only helps when someone remembers to look. Add per-TLD deadlines that differ from the expiry date, and the calendar in your head stops being reliable.

The dependable approach is tracking expiry independently of the registrar: one place covering every domain wherever it's registered, emailing you well ahead of each renewal. That's what DomainChest does — it reads each domain's registration directly, so the date it shows is the registry's. See also why auto-renew fails and what happens when a domain expires.