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For reference, ICANN requires that upcoming renewal notifications are sent in specific intervals, so it results in very noisy registrars.

Namecheap could note within that renewal notice (and subsequently avoiding the auto-renewal notice) but, I can see where they're coming from.

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That's definitely interesting. At the end of the day, the messages are misleading at best, arguably negligent, and definitely sloppy. They could fix it, but their whole site just seems like five or so legacy systems glued together without any overriding consideration for the user.

Accidentally down voted instead of up voting, so I'll just pipe in to say that this is exactly my impression. It's as though they felt like putting an Ajaxy new UI on top of their collapsing backend would make things better, when it really made them worse because it's harder to tell if your request has been sent or the system is lagging out, or what. I was with Namecheap for something like ten years, but now I'm migrating everything away as they start to get close to renewal.

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