Domains can't be locked.

If your domain expires, your next steps depend on who your registrar is:

Tucows: When these domains expire, you have a 45-day expiration grace period to renew with us. If these domains expire, we can’t renew them for you. These expired domains return to their registrar, Tucows. You then have a 90-day redemption period to contact Tucows and request a renewal.

Key-Systems: You have about 30 days after the domain’s expiration date to renew. Once the domain no longer appears on your account dashboard, the option to restore is not available. If your domain can’t be renewed, contact us to confirm if the domain can be reactivated.

There’s no five-day grace period to cancel these domains and no refunds.

Before registering the domain, ensure you want to keep it. Double-check the domain for typos.

Only individuals can enable Whois privacy on their .nz and .co.nz domains. We'll consider the registrant an individual if the Organization field is left blank at registration.

If the registrant enters data into the Organization field when registering the domain, we'll consider them an organization and their information will appear in a Whois lookup. It's not possible for organizations to enable Whois privacy on their .nz and .co.nz domains.