Domain Name Wire Oh, irony: expired domain snafu strikes during domain podcast recording

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A domain expiration at my podcast platform hit while I was recording. ICANN has several policies in place to prevent people from accidentally letting their domain names expire. One of these is that registrars must “interrupt” the site by changing nameservers; this alerts the domain owner to the expiration during the time they can still renew the […]

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Two things I don’t understand: why don’t big companies use auto-renewal and a valid billing profile?
And second, why don’t they register domains for more than one year? The domain now seems to be registered until 2026.