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Domain Name Life Cycle

Domain Name Life Cycle :

Let’s be familiar with Domain Name Life Cycle. This is the cycle from the time it is first registered till it is deleted

Although the typical domain name life cycle is difficult to follow, however we’ve tried to simplify it for your reference

Below is an outlined phases of domain life cycle.

Active (1-10 Years): After the domain purchasing the domain is active for 10 years, depending upon length of subscription. The renewal is not more than 10 years.

On Hold (1-45 Days): If the registrar receives no response from the owner of the domain till 45 days it sends the delete command to the registry. The domain could continue to operate till 45 days depending upon registry and other factors.

Redemption Period (30 Days): After the period in hold status the domain name is kept in grace period in the registry. During this time the website is not working nor do the domain name is available to people to buy. It means the owner of the website gets the extra grace period to renew

Deletion(5 days): After the Final Delete command is sent the domain name is still is Shared Registry System and cannot be purchased by others. The original owner can still renew this domain

Available: Once the deletion completes, the name is released for purchase by the other public.

DNS
Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. Because domain names are alphabetic, they’re easier to remember. The Internet however, is really based on IP addresses. Every time you use a domain name, therefore, a DNS service must translate the name into the corresponding IP address. For example, the domain name www.example.com might translate to 198.105.232.4.

The DNS system is, in fact, its own network. If one DNS server doesn’t know how to translate a particular domain name, it asks another one, and so on, until the correct IP address is returned.

Nameservers

Domain name servers translate domain names to IP addresses.
Human-readable names like “howstuffworks.com” are easy for people to remember, but they don’t do machines any good. All of the machines use names called IP addresses to refer to one another. For example, the machine that humans refer to as “www.howstuffworks.com” has the IP address 70.42.251.42. Every time you use a domain name, you use the Internet’s domain name servers (DNS) to translate the human-readable domain name into the machine-readable IP address.

Primary Nameserver

The primary nameserver is the machine where the records are edited and maintained through, and is held to be the final authority on the domain name. If there is an error here, it will propagate throughout the internet, so it is vitally important that the records on the primary nameserver be set up correctly.
These records are stored in something called a “zone file.” The zone file is a text file, stored on the nameservers, which contains all the technical information regarding the servers for the domain. All the authoritative nameservers need to have a matching copy of the zone file, since they are equally likely to be asked about the domain whether secondary or primary, though the file is only edited and maintained through the primary nameserver.

Secondary nameservers

The remaining nameserver or nameservers listed on the whois record transfer, or copy, the zone file from the primary nameserver. These nameservers are referred to as secondary, and ensure that the domain does not go off-line if there should happen to be a problem with the primary, and also makes resolution faster by allowing more than one option for finding authoritative information for the domain.

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