{"id":543,"date":"2024-02-13T06:08:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T06:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2024\/02\/13\/8942594-hostinger-website-builder-is-a-domain-deleted-when-deleting-a-website\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T06:08:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T06:08:50","slug":"8942594-hostinger-website-builder-is-a-domain-deleted-when-deleting-a-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/8942594-hostinger-website-builder-is-a-domain-deleted-when-deleting-a-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger Website Builder: Is a Domain Deleted When Deleting a Website?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">If you choose to <b><a href=\"\/support\/3624731-how-to-delete-a-website-from-a-hosting-plan\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">delete<\/a><\/b> your website created with<b> Hostinger Website Builder<\/b>, the associated <b>domain name isn&rsquo;t deleted<\/b>; it&rsquo;s just disconnected or released. This means you&rsquo;re free to <b><a href=\"\/support\/8942654-website-builder-how-to-move-a-domain-to-a-different-website\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">use the domain with another website<\/a><\/b>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Once you connect that domain to another website hosted at Hostinger, the <b><a href=\"https:\/\/support.hostinger.com\/en\/collections\/2534491-dns-zone-management-at-hostinger\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">DNS records<\/a> <\/b>are also automatically re-added, so you wouldn&rsquo;t need to do it manually &#127881; <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Overall, domains have a specific <b><a href=\"\/support\/3004042-what-happens-when-a-domain-expires\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">life cycle<\/a><\/b> and cannot be easily canceled or deleted. If you no longer wish to use a domain registered at Hostinger, you can <b><a href=\"\/support\/1583234-how-to-disable-auto-renewal\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">disable its auto-renewal<\/a><\/b> and let it eventually expire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn what happens with the domain once you delete a builder-based website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-website-builder"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/8942594-hostinger-website-builder-is-a-domain-deleted-when-deleting-a-website\/","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}