Your .uk domain name is valuable and it's important to renew it.

.uk domain names are registered for 2 years. If after 2 years you don't renew the domain name then it will lapse and become available for anyone else to register.

If you lost your domain name, what would happen?

• Having to change your domain name would have an impact on your brand and where customers can find your information online.
• Having to change your domain name would mean you have to completely rebuild your search engine ranking and would undoubtedly lose customers and revenue.
• You could lose orders and enquiries sent by email.
  

Even worse than that, when a domain name is not renewed, it is available to be re-registered by anyone else. Statistics show that 15% of non renewed domain names are re-registered by someone else within one day. Astonishingly 7.5% are re-registered within 10 seconds.

Like moving house or changing business premises, changing your domain name needs to be carefully planned and is not something that you should allow to happen by accident.

Your domain name is important. Renew it, don't lose it!

Protect and keep your .co.uk

• Why it's so important to renew your domain name
• When you need to renew your domain name
• How to renew your domain name