If your domain is important to your activity, then Renewal Warranty is the assurance of never losing it. As a leading registrar, Infomaniak is daily confronted with clients who have not been able to renew their domain on time. Their website and email addresses are no longer accessible, and this often represents significant damage to their activity.

It is easy and costly to lose a domain

A domain name is registered for a specific period after which it must be renewed to retain ownership. When a domain is not renewed, it enters a redemption period and then falls into the public domain awaiting a new buyer.

The redemption period is a grace period during which it is still possible to act to retain ownership of your domain. However, this ultimate measure is consequential and incurs fees. In the best-case scenario, it results in the interruption of your website and email addresses for many hours, the time it takes to urgently remove your domain from redemption.

In the worst-case scenario, if there is no intention to reactivate the domain name, it is lost.

Renewal Warranty, the assurance of never losing a domain

With this guarantee, Infomaniak commits to renewing your domain if necessary (blocked payment method, renewal emails not received, prolonged absence, etc.) and will personally contact you by email, SMS, phone, and mail to ensure you keep it.

Renewal Warranty is a unique solution that protects you from the involuntary expiration of your domains. You remain the sole owner of your domains and are free to stop Renewal Warranty or cancel your domains whenever you decide.

Activate Renewal Warranty on an existing domain

Refer to this other guide to activate the option in a few clicks.

This guide lists the Windows operating system versions that can be installed when ordering a VPS Cloud / VPS Lite.

Supported Windows versions

When ordering your Server, you will be able to choose the version of Windows to install.

Windows Server

Possible versions with Windows Server 2025, 2022 or 2019:

• Windows Server Standard designed for low-density or non-virtualized environments
• Windows Server Datacenter ideal for datacenter-defined and highly virtualized environments

Note:

• As a Microsoft partner, Infomaniak provides VPS Cloud / VPS Lite Windows Server 2025, 2022 or 2019 containing a Microsoft Windows Server license. In case of activation failure, refer to this other guide.
• As a Microsoft partner, Infomaniak does not offer the possibility to use your own Windows Server license (or Bring Your Own License).
• If you use Microsoft software within Windows Server that requires a License Mobility, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Sharepoint Server or Microsoft Exchange Server, you must submit the Software Assurance document via the Infomaniak contact form.

Windows 11 Professional Evaluation

Windows 11 Professional has all the features of Windows 11 Home as well as professional features for encryption, remote connection, virtual machine creation and more.

Note:

• It will be necessary to activate Windows, Infomaniak provides only an evaluation version.

This guide explains how to renew or restore a domain name registered with Infomaniak.

Preamble

1. You are automatically notified by email (at the address you mentioned) when one of your domain names is about to expire.
2. If this domain name is not renewed before its expiration date, it enters a redemption period during which it can still be recovered/restored.
   • The restoration fees and the duration of the redemption period are variable depending on the extension concerned.
3. Once the redemption period has elapsed, the domain name is free and can be reserved again by anyone.
   • If your domain is important for your activities, Renewal Warranty offers you the assurance of never losing it: Infomaniak will do everything in its power to ensure that you keep it even if you do not provide timely updates at its expiration.

Renew a domain name before expiration

The renewal of one or more domain names is done exactly the same way as any other Infomaniak service renewal. Refer to this other guide if you are looking for information on how to renew the product in question.

Restore a domain name after expiration

To restore a domain during its redemption period:

1. Click here to access the management of your product on the Infomaniak Manager (need help?).
2. An expired domain is indicated as such:
   
3. Click directly on the name assigned to the product concerned:
   
4. Click the Restore button:
   
5. Follow the restoration steps to the end.

Resolve an issue

What to do if the domain does not seem visible in your account?

• Check that you are logged in with the correct user account, and that you are displaying the correct Organization if you are associated with multiple entities.
• Consult the DOMAIN section of the Manager and not in a section of billed or renewable products.
• Repurchase the domain name if it has not been reserved since.

This guide provides some information about Windows licenses for Infomaniak Public Cloud.

Windows License Information

As a Microsoft Partner, Infomaniak provides and automatically bills Microsoft licenses for the following operating systems:

• Windows Server 2019 Standard and Datacenter
• Windows Server 2022 Standard and Datacenter
• Windows Server 2025 Standard and Datacenter

Billing is based on the number of VCPUs of the instance.

The license belongs to Infomaniak and is not the property of the customer. It starts when the customer uses one of these versions of Windows Server and stops when the instance is destroyed.

There is no license billing in case of pause or stop of the instance.

Microsoft Partner

• As a Microsoft partner, Infomaniak provides pre-activated corresponding images on Public Cloud, via Horizon or the Openstack CLI. In case of activation failure, refer to this other guide on the subject.
• As a Microsoft partner, Infomaniak does not allow the use of a customer's personal license (Bring Your Own License); in the case of using their own license, Infomaniak makes available and automatically bills the licenses provided by Infomaniak. The customer can then activate their OS via the activation procedure.
• As a Microsoft partner, the non-use of licenses (i.e., a 180-day Evaluation version) is also not allowed. These versions are for testing in an internal environment. In the case of using an evaluation version, Infomaniak makes available and automatically bills the licenses provided by Infomaniak. The customer can then activate their OS via the procedure for converting an evaluation version to a normal activated version.
• If you use Microsoft software within Windows Server that requires a License Mobility, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Sharepoint Server, or Microsoft Exchange Server, you must submit the Software Assurance document via the Infomaniak contact form.