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I just increased mine to the max of 10 years, I guess I should have done that anyway just for security. What happens though if namecheap goes out of business du
by Sytten 3y ago
I just increased mine to the max of 10 years, I guess I should have done that anyway just for security. What happens though if namecheap goes out of business during that?
- bjord 3y agoYou can transfer it elsewhere at any point and you'll still get credit for the years you've paid for (though the receiving registrar will likely make you buy at least one additional year).
- pests 3y agoNamecheap can hand over their records to another registar before they go out of business or ICANN can step in after the fact and give their domains to another registar to manage. The new registar would likely reach out to introduce themselves.
- dathinab 3y agoAdditionally there is a good chance that a different registrar would buy it up to acquire the customers and then transfer them to their system, etc.
- fckgw 3y agoThis happened several years ago with a registrar I had at my domains at called RegisterFly. Upper management fraud and fighting led to the company spiraling, ICANN accreditation getting canceled and the site shutting down. ICANN transferred all ownership over to GoDaddy at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RegisterFly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RegisterFly
- scblzn 3y ago"What happens though if namecheap goes out of business during that?" .COM agreement between registrars and ICANN requires registrars to regularily store all registrant contact infos in IronMountain and set ICANN as escrow, therefore allowing ICANN to contact all registrants should a registrar fold and allow them to transfer to another registrar. Another reason to keep the domain ownership informations up-to-date. [1] [1]: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rde-agreement-09nov07-en.pdf https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rde-agreement-09...