Life Cycle of a Domain

Active : This is where the domain is available  for registration and an entity can register it from 1 to 10 years from a domain registrar.

Registered Period:  Domain name will active for the number of years you have made payment for. Once registration is done you need to keep the domain for 60 days  with the current domain registrars. Once 60days is done you can keep the domain name with the current domain registrars or move it. Registrars will notify you to renew your domain in advance so you don’t miss  renewing your domain name.

Expired,Auto-Renewed Grace Period: Incase you forget to renew the domain name it will get deleted. Service’s related to domain will be stopped. At this point domain name cannot be transferred unless and until the domain is renewed. Once the domain is expired it will enter into Grace Period that will be up to 30 to  45 days this some times depends on the registrar how they provide extension. In this situation you can renew the domain name without penalty. If domain is not renewed at this phase it will enter redemption grace period.

Redemption Grace Period: Once domain enters this phase which is 30 days, registrars will delete all the information about the domain name. It is very expensive to make it active once again.

Pending Deletion: This phase will last for 5 days of the domain is not renewed and it will go to pending deletion phase. And it will be available for public for registration.