Warn HN: Namecheap.com Cyber Monday WhoisGuard Issue

Presumably due to the heavy traffic, Namecheap's ordering system is sometimes failing to add WhoisGuard protection by default to eligible domains when you add them to the cart.

Failure to notice this during the haste to complete an order results in your personal information being unwittingly published in various WHOIS databases forever.

For example: I've had multiple domains with the same ccTLD extension in the cart, and somehow a single one would arbitrarily lack WhoisGuard, while the others possessed it as expected.

After reviewing past orders, I realized I'd already been burned, hence this post. Be careful!