Right in the middle or renewing the our account. I need to activate the new license and, since I can't, people can't download our app from the store. Talking about fail...
No, waiting until the day it expires before renewing is fail :)
You can make a phone call to Apple and they will extend your account for few days if you will explain the situation.
You waited until the last day?
Well it was 2 days before... (I actually did it early but renewed by mistake another account we have)
Doh! Been there. But, I renew a month in advance. As soon as I get the reminder because I don't want to deal with issues, like this.
Argh! I'm in the same boat. I'm 2 days from expiration and I have the activation code. I just couldn't do it at work and forgot to update my home computer Xcode the one evening that I had a chance before this outage.
Looks like you are good with apple as they extended your account's renewal date due to the outage.