Hostinger Refund Policy India 2026: What the 30-Day Guarantee Excludes

Hostinger's refund policy — the version stamped “Last revised: 2026-06-30” when we read it on 1 September 2026 — opens with a clean standard term: products “may be refunded only if canceled within 30 days of the date of the transaction”.

Then it lists about sixty country registries that “DO NOT permit refunds upon cancellation”, and India is on it. .in, .co.in and .in.net are all named. So are .uk, .de, .fr, .eu, .jp, .au, .us, .ae and most of Europe.

That is the single most relevant line on the page for an Indian buyer, and it is not in the marketing copy anywhere. If you register a .in through Hostinger, the domain component of that invoice is gone the moment it registers — the hosting alongside it is still refundable, the domain is not.

“30-day money-back guarantee” is the headline, but the policy attaches a second condition to most of the products people actually buy, and the second condition is usually a cooldown.

A VPS plan is refundable within 30 days — but only if more than 180 days have passed since your last VPS refund. Hostinger Reach carries the same 180-day cooldown plus a rule about having used the free plan. Hostinger Horizons is refundable within 30 days only if fewer than 30 AI prompts have been used.

Two exclusions sit inside the hosting line itself and are easy to miss: standard terms cover hosting on “all plans, except first payment after Free Trial and all VPS hosting plans”. So the first bill after a free trial — arguably the one you would most want to be able to undo — is outside the standard 30 days.

Separate from the timed windows, Hostinger publishes a list of products that are not refundable at all. Several of them are things that get added to a hosting cart almost by default.

Privacy Protection is on it. So are domain renewals, successful domain transfers, the SEO Toolkit, Google Workspace Email, the VPS License, and every paid support service.

There is one distinction worth holding onto: Hostinger's own email products (Hostinger Email, Titan Email) are on the refundable list, while Google Workspace Email is on the non-refundable one. Same cart, same checkout, opposite outcome if you change your mind.

Hostinger prints roughly sixty ccTLDs whose registries do not permit refunds on cancellation. It is worth reading as a group, because it covers most of the country-code domains an Indian business would plausibly register.

India's entries are the ones that matter here, but the list also rules out a second-market domain for almost every major economy: the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia, the US, Canada, the UAE and Turkey.

The exception the policy names is .br, which gets a longer window (168 hours instead of 96) and is the only carve-out from the free-domain non-refundability rule. Generic domains — .com, .net, .org and the like — are not on the blocked list, so the 96-hour rule is what applies to them.

The last section of the policy is the one nobody reads until it matters. A chargeback, payment dispute or reversal is treated as a breach of your payment obligations, and Hostinger states it may respond with immediate termination without notice of the account and any domains or services registered through it.

It goes further: the account “may be blocked without the option to re-purchase or re-use it”, data may be cancelled, and credit-card checkout is disabled on the account. Disputing a Hostinger charge with your bank rather than through Hostinger's own refund process is therefore a materially different action from asking for a refund.

On destinations: refunds normally go back to the original funding source, but you can elect a refund to Hostinger Balance instead if you want to spend it immediately. That choice is one-way — once a balance refund is initiated for an invoice it “becomes irrevocable and cannot be refunded to a different source”. Over-funded balance itself is refundable within 30 days of the payment that created it. Our Hostinger domain price page covers what the Rs. 1 .com actually renews at, which is the other half of this decision.