How to cancel Namecheap subscription.

A domain is a registration, not a service subscription. Turning auto-renew off is how you stop the charge, and the consequence is that the name expires rather than that you keep it for free.

1. Log in to Namecheap and open Domain List in the left sidebar of the Account Dashboard.
2. Select Manage next to the domain, or use the caret beside it to expand its options.
3. Toggle auto-renew off for the domain, and check the separate toggle for Domain Privacy while you are there.
4. Note the expiry date shown for the domain: it stays active until then and lapses afterwards.
5. If you want to keep the name but not pay Namecheap, transfer it to another registrar instead, or use Change Ownership to move it to another Namecheap user.

Namecheap also offers Namecheap Market for selling an unwanted domain, and domain forwarding if you want to point it at another name rather than drop it. Letting a domain expire is the one cancellation here that has a cost rather than a saving.

This covers the recurring products Namecheap sells alongside domains, and it is where a VPN or similar subscription lives. Namecheap sets recurring products to auto-renew right after purchase.

1. Log in to Namecheap and open the Apps tab in the dashboard.
2. Open Subscriptions and find the subscription you want to stop.
3. Switch the auto-renew toggle off for it.
4. Confirm the entry now shows it will not renew, and note the date the current term ends.
5. Check the rest of the list while you are on the page: one toggle stops one product.

Namecheap states auto-renew can be disabled for an application at any time during its current billing cycle. The subscription runs to the end of the term you already paid for.

Namecheap documents two ways to do this and they have different consequences. Letting it expire buys you time to move your data, cancelling immediately does not.

1. Back up your website files, databases and email first: this is the step that cannot be redone afterwards.
2. To let it lapse, open Hosting List, find the package and turn its auto-renew option off. Namecheap states the package is then suspended after its billing date and cancelled afterwards.
3. To cancel immediately instead, open Hosting List, select Manage next to the hosting service, choose Cancel service, review and accept the cancellation terms, then confirm with Yes, cancel hosting.
4. Check afterwards that the domain itself is unaffected: cancelling hosting does not cancel a domain registration.
5. For a dedicated server, Namecheap directs the request to billing@namecheap.com rather than the dashboard.

Namecheap states that all websites for add-on domains and subdomains, as well as email accounts, are suspended and then terminated along with the main hosting service.

There is no button for this. Namecheap closes accounts by request, and only once the account is empty.

1. Clear the account first: push domains to another account or ask support to remove them, remove Marketplace listings, cancel or transfer SSL certificates and Private Email, and cancel or transfer hosting packages.
2. Email domainsupport@namecheap.com with your account username, your Support PIN and your reason for closing.
3. Expect app subscriptions to be cancelled without a refund and their data to be lost.
4. Keep any invoices you need before the account goes.

Namecheap states that once an account is closed it cannot be re-established and you will not have access to it any more, and that the username cannot be reused, though you can create a new account later.