Establishing Your Domain

When you pay the domain registration fee today, you need to pay another
registration fee when the renewal date comes up again in a year, or two, or
five — however many years you chose to register your domain name for.
(See the nearby “Domain names: Do you own or rent?” sidebar.) Most regis-
trars give you the option of signing up for a service called Auto Renew to
automatically renew your domain name and bill the charges to the credit
card you set up on that account. The registrar sends you a reminder a few
months in advance, telling you it’s time to renew. If you don’t have Auto

Renew set up, you need to log in to your registrar account before it expires and manually renew your domain name.