I didn't "forget" to feckin' renew it, my useless shitbag hosting company (who host the machine and also the DNS names)
1. Who are they? It would be nice to add another to my blacklist of hosting companies to avoid (no.1 at the moment: Hostway.com, whose total incompetence got OUR domain on the spam blacklists, because of THEIR screwup of their 100% managed server; in 3 months they were too lazy/stupid/incompetent to fix it, so we had to change provider and get a new IP address

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2. 1-and-1 are quite good given how cheap they are. Not perfect (twice in 1.5 years (spread across 4 servers) I've seen them crash a server completely (no ping, even) and force sites off the net for up to 3 days with no explanation and no apology; but...that could be something as innocent as an urgent upgrade, and it IS cheap)