That's honestly nobody's problem but your own. Set it to autorenew or buy it for a longer period of time. I bought 10 years up-front for my own domain.

Hmm, let's look at how feasible this is.

Namecheap is quite a popular place to buy domains, isn't it?

(myname).xyz - 10 years - £85.29 / $110.15

(myname).com - 10 years - £69.87 / $90.24

(myname).net - 10 years - £98.40 / $127.08

In a world where many people are not able to afford food for themselves[0][1], this is hardly an alternative. At minimum wage ($7.25[2]), a single domain name would take about half a month to earn, assuming you have no other outgoings, which is very likely not the case.

What coherent person would do that?

[0]: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/10/01/how-confron...

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/02/magazine/food...

[2]: https://www.epi.org/blog/millions-of-workers-are-paid-less-t...

The question wasn't, "how can I afford this?" though, it was "but what if I forget to renew?"

If you're already buying your own domain then this is a valid solution, particularly if you can't or won't set up autorenewal.

The affordability of paying for your own domain and also your email provider is a separate conversation entirely.

> $110.15

> At minimum wage ($7.25[2]), a single domain name would take about half a month to earn

I don't understand.

110/7 is 15 hours, not 15 days.

This. One tip I might have learnt from here is to renew a domain for the maximum allowed period (usually 10 years), and then make it a habit to renew it once a year, back to the full ~10 years.

Then that's on you, because you would be the responsible party.

You could buy an 'ugly' domain. When it expires, no one would like to take it.