In case you have decided to close your Shopify store, you can deactivate your account easily. After that, you will lose access to your account admin. Now if you want to reactivate it, you have to enter your credit card details.
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Then you can log in again. Also, after deactivating your store, you cannot come up with an online store that uses the same Shopify domain. You can undoubtedly keep your brand name in your new store, but your Shopify domain is unique and you cannot carry forward it.
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To understand this clearly, take this example, you have an online store on Shopify with the name ‘The animorld’. The URL of the store is Theanimorld.myshopify.com. Now you want to close this store. After some time, you decide to open another store on Wix using the same name. So you can take The animorld but cannot use the whole URL for it.
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Another thing that Shopify mentions on its official page is, “If you plan to deactivate your store and transfer your domain to a new platform, then be aware that Shopify's HTTP Strict Transfer Security (HSTS) policy remains in effect on your domain for 90 days after you deactivate your store.
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This policy helps to ensure the safety of the information about your business and your customers.”So if you want to close or transfer your online store, it is better to do it under the guidance of a customer support person.