While nicknames and accounts do not automatically get deleted when they expire -- only when another user requests to take over the registration -- we do
occasionally perform clean-up runs on the services database, in which we will automatically drop all registrations which have been idle for a long time. When we
do this, we set the threshold for deletion considerably higher than the documented expiry time, to ensure that users close to the limit do not lose out.
While nicknames and accounts do not automatically get deleted when they expire -- only when another user requests to take over the registration -- we do
occasionally perform clean-up runs on the services database, in which we will automatically drop all registrations which have been idle for a long time. When we
do this, we set the threshold for deletion considerably higher than the documented expiry time, to ensure that users close to the limit do not lose out.