Failure during auto renew

I still want to post an item about reasons why forum users would benefit by sharing their domain names, but I'm still waiting for a really useful DNS testing tool, as described in the thread

(because I wanted to create a norm that people who won't share their domain names should at least take a set of steps to eliminate likely misconfigurations as the source of their problems—but we might need slightly better tools to hepl people to do that)