Renewing a Name
A Stargaze Name is leased, not owned forever. Renewing is how you keep it. It takes about thirty seconds and one transaction.
Summary
Your name has an expiry date. Find it in your profile's Names tab.
Renew any time before that date — renewing early costs you nothing extra, because the new term is added on top of your existing one.
If you miss it, you get 90 days of grace to renew. Your name stops working during those 90 days, but nobody else can take it.
After the grace period, the name is released. Someone else can register it, and it's gone.
Where to find your expiry date
Connect your wallet.
Open Profile → Names (or the Names menu in the navbar → My Names).
The Expires column shows the date for every name you own. Sort by Expiring Soonest to put the urgent ones on top.
A red badge appears when something needs attention:
(none)
Registered and working normally
Grace
Expired. Still yours, but it has stopped resolving. Renew now.
Expired
Past the grace period. It can no longer be renewed and may already be gone.
Stargaze does not email or message you before a name expires. Nothing will chase you. Check the Names tab now and then, or put a reminder in your calendar a month before the date.
How to renew, step by step
1. Open your Names tab
Connect your wallet, then go to Profile → Names.
2. Click Renew
Each name you own has Edit and Renew buttons on the right of its row. Click Renew.
3. Choose how many years to add
Use the Years stepper. You can add anywhere from 1 year up to the point where the total lease would exceed the 10-year cap.
For example, a name that expires in 3 years can be extended by up to 7 more.
4. Check the summary
The panel shows exactly what will happen:
Name — the name being renewed
Renewal — how many years you're adding
Current expiry — today's expiry date
New expiry — the date after this renewal
Total — the price in ATOM
Read the New expiry line. That is the whole point of the transaction.
5. Renew and sign
Click Renew and approve in Keplr. You'll get a Renewal Successful confirmation showing the new expiry date.
Renewing early
Renewing early is always safe, and is the recommended practice.
When you renew, the new years are added to your existing expiry date, not to today. Renew a name eleven months early and you keep those eleven months — they are added to, not replaced by, the term you just bought.
There is therefore no advantage in waiting:
You can renew the day after you register.
You can renew on any day of the lease.
You can renew several times; each renewal stacks on the last.
The only limit is the 10-year cap — the lease can never extend more than 10 years past today.
If the Years stepper is missing
If a name is already at the 10-year cap, the panel hides the stepper and says:
This name is already at its maximum lease term and cannot be renewed right now.
This is expected: the name is secured for a decade. The cap moves forward with time, so the lease can be extended again later.
What renewal costs
Renewal is charged at the standard length-based price, the same as registration:
3 characters
100 ATOM
4 characters
10 ATOM
5 or more characters
1 ATOM
Two things to know:
Presale and whitelist discounts never apply to renewals. Those covered the first year of a registration only.
There is no late fee. Renewing during the grace period costs exactly the same as renewing early.
The lifecycle of a name
Every name moves through the same four states. They are worked out purely from the expiry date and the clock — there's no queue and no manual review.
Registered
Up to the expiry date
✅ Yes
Anyone can renew it
Grace
90 days after expiry
❌ No
Anyone can renew it. Nobody can register it.
Premium
The next 21 days
❌ No
Anyone can register it, at the normal price plus a surcharge that decays from 100 ATOM to zero
Available
After that
❌ No
Anyone can register it, at the normal price
Renewing during the grace period
You keep the right to renew for 90 full days after expiry, and it costs the normal price. But two things are true during grace:
Your name stops working. It no longer resolves to your address. Your profile falls back to showing
cosmos1…, and anyone sending to your name will find nothing there.You lose the lapsed time. The renewal still extends from your original expiry date, so any days spent in grace come out of the new term. Lapse for 60 days and renew for a year, and you get roughly 305 usable days.
The renewal panel says this directly when it applies:
This name is in its grace period and has stopped resolving. Renewing extends from the original expiry date, not from today.
After the grace period
Once the 90 days are up, renewal is no longer possible. The panel will tell you:
This name is past its grace period and can no longer be renewed. It must be registered again.
At that point the name enters the 21-day premium window and then becomes fully available. You can still get it back by registering it again — but so can anybody else, and during the premium window the price carries a surcharge that starts at 100 ATOM and falls to zero over the 21 days.
Renewing someone else's name
Renewal is permissionless: anyone can renew any name, and the name stays with its current owner. You cannot take a name by renewing it.
This is useful in several situations:
A project can renew the names of its team or community members.
A DAO can renew a name held in a multisig from any member's wallet.
You can renew a friend's name as a gift.
To do it, open the owner's profile, go to their Names tab, and use the name's page — or renew it directly from your own wallet against that name.
If you bought a name from someone else
Buying a name does not reset its lease. You inherit whatever term was left when you bought it, which could be years or could be days.
Check the expiry the moment the name lands in your wallet, and renew if it's close. See Buying & Selling Names.
Next steps
Managing Your Name — profile picture, banner, links
Buying & Selling Names — trading, and what to check first
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