Recently we had an outage where a domain name expired – we didn’t get a warning that it expired due to various factors but it highlighted a freaking major flaw in our systems.
Now, we are fixing it internally, but our current registration provider is namecheap (is hosted on dnsimple) for this domain, which “helpfully” put up a parking page when the site expired which meant some of our client websites were being redirected to their competitors!
So question, who do you use for professional domain name registration where this sort of parking page stupidity can be avoided? A company that will call you if a domain name is going to blow up and if there is an expiration, someone that will set the refresh to 60 seconds and contact us?
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