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After a domain expired, it enters into quarantine. During this period, the domain is not released to the general public and cannot be registered by a third party.

Depending on the registry policy, the quarantine will be composed of one or all of the periods below:

- Reactivation period: during this phase, the former domain holder can reconsider the expiration of his domain and ask its reactivation to the current registrar (see How to reactivate my expired domains).

- Restore period: the domain is usually moved to the registry. At this time, the former domain holder can still recover his domain. In this case, the domain will be restored by the registry. You can contact our support team from your EuroDNS account to get your domain restored.

- Pending delete: during this phase, the domain cannot be reactivated or restored. The domain will be definitely scheduled for deletion from the registry database.

At the end of the quarantine, the domain name is released for general registration on a first-come-first-served basis, unless the domain holder asks for reactivation or restore before.

Note: the name and the duration of these periods may differ from a TLD to another. As an example, for most gTLDs such as .com, .biz, .info, .net and .org, the domain spends 40 days in Grace Period (Reactivation period), 30 days in Redemption period (Restore period) and 5 days in Pending delete.