[bigiain]

I've been involved in trying to rectify this sort of mistake before...

At least with .com.au domains, there's not a lot of risk of losing a recently expired domain, what you do suffer is a ~$100 vig for the registrar to "expedite the re-registration"...

[Luyt]

Some companies will squeeze money out of everything when they get the chance, this reminds me of a €13 'administrative processing' surcharge I recently got on a €7.50 invoice I forgot to pay.