written by on 14/01/2014
123-reg freely admit, and indeed state in their terms, that they cannot be relied upon to renew your domains. So, if you have any domains of value, please do not register them with 123-reg.
This is because:
* Randomly, they do not send reminders that a domain is due to expire
* Randomly, they do not renew domains on auto-renew
They simply cannot be trusted to do the two simple things required of a domain registrar which is to keep a domain safe and renew it as asked. This has happened to more more than once and I've now got the painful task of moving all my domains elsewhere :(