I hope this is not becoming the norm for some greedy registrars. There should REALLY be a CIRA policy that if a client requests and pays for a renewal, that it MUST be executed immediately. My renewal requests and payments are NOT loans to an effing registrar to float their business. Businesses will renew for extra years specifically for SEO, or security, and you should get what you pay for. Its a horrible policy that can only go wrong, like a pyramid scheme, robbing peter to pay paul.
I've heard that WHC has been doing this....
@FM, can you tell me what WHC's policy is regarding renewing domains and then not executing the renewals? Are you really collecting payments from customers and then not actually renewing those domains??