>DNS has become frighteningly unreliable. Here are previous stories that show how it is possible to lose access to your domain for no fault of yours: The secon

>DNS has become frighteningly unreliable. Here are previous stories that show how it is possible to lose access to your domain for no fault of yours: The second story you posted is about a user who forgot to renew their domain and did not wish to pay the overly-inflated fee to re-register it while it was in the grace period. I hold no love for any registrar that jacks up rates for getting back an expired domain and agree that they should have sent a reminder email, but describing this as someone "losing their domain through no fault of their own" is, frankly, incredibly misleading. The user: 1) forgot to renew their domain 2) had full right to recover their domain but objected to the price 3) had full right to transfer the domain out to another registrar for the original 15EUR price and 4) eventually got back full control of the domain