# How to renew a domain with no Renewal button in RCP

## Question

Some domains don't have a renew button in RCP (e.g. .at TLD). How does one renew such domains? Will they be lost after they reach their expiration dates?

## Answer

Some registries don't allow for explicit domain renewal or, sometimes, the renewal call can only be made within a certain period of time before the domain's expiration date. If the domain page in RCP were to be queried on June 1 2020, for the domain that expires on June 29th, the Renew button would not have been present:

For instance, in the case of .at domains, when the 'Expiration date - 28 days' period comes, the Renew button will appear in RCP allowing to increment **Expiration date Openprovider** without actually sending a renew command to the registry.

In cases like this, the renewal behaviour can be controlled by setting the **auto-renewal** policy (be it per domain or the global setting) to **On** in one's RCP account.

Going back to the .at TLD, to renew an .at domain one simply has to set the domain renewal mode or default renewal mode to Auto renew.