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This page describes how to manually renew a domain that has expired.
To renew your domain, complete the following steps.
Before you begin
You can renew your domain only within 30 days of its expiration date.
If you choose to enable automatic renewal settings, you must enable it 15 days
before the expiration date. Learn how tochange automatic renewal settings.
For domains that use a country-code TLD, you must wait 72 hours
after the expiration date before you can renew those domains.
Permissions required for this task
To perform this task, you must have been granted the following permissionsorthe following IAM roles.
DOMAIN_NAME: the name of the registered domain that you
want to renew—for example,example.app.
YEARLY_PRICE: the yearly price, followed by a
currency code (for example, 12.00 USD). The--yearly-priceflag is
optional. If you omit this flag, gcloud CLI prompts you to
confirm the yearly price. For information about pricing, seeCloud Domains pricing.
POST https://domains.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/global/registrations/DOMAIN_NAME:renewDomain
{
"yearlyPrice": {
"currencyCode": "CURRENCY_CODE",
"units":NUMBER_OF_UNITS}
}
Replace the following:
PROJECT_ID: the name of your project
DOMAIN_NAME: the name of the domain that you want to
renew
CURRENCY_CODE: the three-letter currency code defined
in ISO 4217—for example,USD.
NUMBER_OF_UNITS: the yearly price in units. For
example, if thecurrencyCodeisUSD, then one unit is equal to
one US dollar. For information about pricing,
seeCloud Domains pricing.
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