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You can also just turn auto-renewal on Namecheap and put some money in there. I don't check the email where the notices are sent. And I have a lot of domain names I bought on a whim but may not renew. I'll set the important ones on auto-renew, but not the minor ones.
Name.com has always been more professional with less trick billing stunts. Easy to reach a human and they're not set on upselling you into garbage. However, if you aren't monitoring your inbox for expiration notices, you're already in trouble.
I would suggest to add some money into the account if you are not going to monitor the emails. I have a lot of domains with Namecheap and I've always for plenty of reminder mails from them about expiry. For me, it looks like the problem is between the keyboard and the chair and not otherwise. Fix the emails and avoid future issues. Namecheap has been one of the best domain providers period. I have had plenty of bad e…
We’ve fixed our internal issue, hopefully won’t happen again.
What I really want is a hosting provider that just puts up a blank page on an expired domains, not show a bunch of ads.
Even if you find a registrar that claims not to do that. Nothing is stopping another company (such as a competitor) from grabbing the domain once it expires and pointing it at whatever they want.
FWIW: I've been a Gandi user for ~15 years so they're really the only ones I can recommend. I'd avoid GoDaddy.
AFAIK, the most popular service that people use for this is Markmonitor.