I note my domains expiration dates and renew them at least 30 days before.
Your not the only person whose had issues recently with Namecheap not sending renewal emails.
Your not the only person whose had issues recently with Namecheap not sending renewal emails.
If you have autorenew set, it first tries to draw against any existing positive balance you have directly with Namecheap. If/when that doesn't work, it then next tries your preferred payment method (e.g. your registered and designated preferred credit card).
I was told if I found a way to clear my couple of buck balance with Namecheap, I'd no longer get the warning email. The first attempt would be against my credit card, which would work, and I'd just get one success email (after preceding "upcoming" emails and all that).
I don't know whether this is correct. It's what I was told by support over chat, IIRC.
About a day before they're completely unavailable for renewal, I'll also get an email from CloudFlare saying the nameservers aren't pointing to CF anymore (I use CF for active and parked domains.)
That is standard behaviour for a domain-registrar, when a domain expires. When a domain expires the previous owner can re-register it during the grace period, after that for an extra fee it can be renewed in the redemption-period.
Finally just before a domain is available for re-registration by an unrelated party it will land in the pending-delete state.
Registrar: Who you registered the domain with
Registry: The company that owns the tld
I've since added a monthly calendar reminder to log in to all registrars and verify all services are still enabled and correctly configured with plenty of time left.