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Check your NameCheap domains for bogus expiration dates!
There was a thread here on GFY sometime in the last 90 days from a guy who lost his domain at NameCheap.com because they had a bogus long expiration date shown on his dashboard, he therefore did not renew it in a timely fashion because they did not send him any of the expiration alerts he was expecting, but they sure enough expired it anyway long before the expiry date shown in his dashboard, which he did not discover until after the reactivation period. Sadly I can't find that thread due to the retarded search delay here at GFY.
Anyway, just now I checked my dashboard. I always renew my domains for one year and I never use automatic renewal because each year there are decisions to be made about which domains to keep in this ever-changing business environment. I found a total of seven domains (seven!) with bogus expiration dates ranging from 2018 all the way out to
July 2028. Fortunately none of the "true" expiration dates (all of which should be in 2016 or 2017) have been reached yet. The closest would have been in about two months.
I've got a ticket in with NameCheap and I don't expect any difficulty getting the dates fixed. So in my case, no harm, no foul. But I can see this having gone badly. Moral: check your expiration dates in your NameCheap dashboard and if you've got any anomalous ones, get 'em fixed!
I am a happy NameCheap customer since 2006 and this is the first time that their error has put one of my domains at risk. So this is not fundamentally a NameCheap bitch. But obviously, the trust they earned a long time ago is eroding under this sort of pressure.
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