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I updated my .org domains for the max 5 years that my provider would let me. At least I'm locked in for now. The whole thing seems shady though I really want to believe that the new owner will play nice. As humans we can decide that altruism > greed, something tells me that greed will rule here.

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> I really want to believe that the new owner will play nice

I do too, but everything that the players involved in this have said and done strongly indicates that "playing nice" or even behaving relatively responsibly isn't in their DNA.

You should perhaps transfer your domain to another registrar who will allow the standard maximum duration of 10 years (as of now) and then renew the domain for another five years right away. Cloudflare could be an option to transfer to, though I haven’t used it.

That's a good start, but maybe also purchase a separate non-.org domain and start the process of migration ASAFP.

Good idea. My personal .org domain is up for renewal right now. I guess it's time to lock it in for now.

to future readers: namecheap will let you do 9 years.

In the past I've had a lot of issues with spammers and scammers using domain names that came from namecheap. namecheap made it difficult to report and resolve issues, spammer/scammers could create names much faster than they could be taken down. namecheap was not interested in tying one violation to another, they did not want to see that a few players were generating a lot of names that appeared to be from different people but all immediately started running the same spam/scam. If namecheap chooses to be a citadel for spammer/scammers then I'm sure not going to give them any of my money.

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