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Recovering a Deleted Domain

When recovering a domain, we won’t be able to recover your DNS records. We recommend making a copy of your zone file before deleting any domain from DNSimple.

The domain was registered with DNSimple

When you delete a domain that you registered through DNSimple from your account, the domain is still present in the registry (you can verify this by running a WHOIS lookup). The domain will remain registered and belong to you until it expires and the registry deletes it.

To recover a registered domain
  1. Log in to DNSimple with your user credentials.
  2. Follow the steps to add a domain to your account, choosing Add DNS zone.
  3. Contact us over support indicating that you want to recover a domain registered with DNSimple and what domain it is.

The domain was registered with a 3rd party

To recover a domain that’s registered with an external registrar, add the domain back to your account:

To recover a hosted domain
  1. Log in to DNSimple with your user credentials.
  2. Follow the steps to add a domain to your account, choosing Add DNS zone.