eNom, Inc. has received a request from [Me] on 22 Jan 2013 to become the new registrar of record.
The subject was:
Domain Transfer Request for [Domain]
The message included links at transfer-approval.com for verifying the transfer.
The whois information for namecheap.com shows NameCheap, Inc as the registrant, but eNom as the registrar (which may mean nothing at all).
So, there appears to continue to be a link between Namecheap and ENom, but it might be limited to NameCheap using eNom services and/or not updating account information to display the right info. It's easy to be a customer of NameCheap and assume they are a reseller or that eNom is the parent. If that's not the case, they have some work to do to clarify things. That said, I'm a happy customer.