• indianmouse 13 hours ago
    I would suggest to add some money into the account if you are not going to monitor the emails. I have a lot of domains with Namecheap and I've always for plenty of reminder mails from them about expiry.

    For me, it looks like the problem is between the keyboard and the chair and not otherwise. Fix the emails and avoid future issues. Namecheap has been one of the best domain providers period.

    I have had plenty of bad experiences and predatory and opportunistic billing with plenty of others.

    I have been dealing with domains since the early network solutions days (I would comfortably say that it my experience is close to 30+ years and Namecheap as a domain provider is at the top of my list!).

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    • indianmouse 12 hours ago
      Have said that, one more recent news which I came across is the a PE firm has picked up a major stake in Namecheap.

      I just hope they just don't go on to the Godaddy route...

      Time to look for alternatives?... Feeling sorry for the above comment though...

  • palmfacehn 15 hours ago
    Name.com has always been more professional with less trick billing stunts. Easy to reach a human and they're not set on upselling you into garbage. However, if you aren't monitoring your inbox for expiration notices, you're already in trouble.
  • KomoD 5 hours ago
    What were these "various factors"? You get warnings before it even expires.
  • muzani 13 hours ago
    You can also just turn auto-renewal on Namecheap and put some money in there. I don't check the email where the notices are sent. And I have a lot of domain names I bought on a whim but may not renew. I'll set the important ones on auto-renew, but not the minor ones.
  • ttoinou 13 hours ago
    For something as important as this you might as well get multiple different alerts. Including custom made alert, right now you can already create one for when the domain will expire since you should know about it