Most of them offer automatic renewals--they love customers that click automatic renewals. Godaddy literally changes your setting to automatic renewal.(This would be a good class action lawsuit--for such a classy company?)

The problem with automatic renewals is its fine if you just have one domain. If you have a lot of domains it makes financial sense to shop around? I've always gone with the cheapest registrar(that I feel will be around in a year, or two), and never had a problem. Personally, I heard a long time ago the true cost of registering a domain is around $7.49. I don't know if that's correct? I don't like to pay much more than that per year--just on principal.

Since, people are throwing around companies, Google domains are $10 bucks a year/with free privacy. (At least they were a few months ago?) Godaddy did away with renewal discount codes; I see no reason to use that company anymore?

Namecheap and GoDaddy also offer auto renewal. I've never heard of auto renewal not being offered.

Hover as well.

I've been with Gandi for years, absolutely love them

So far it's been rocky with me. I had a VM that I used with what I think is called GandiFlex (I set it to lower the memory during the night and increase during the day) and apparently when my VM tried to scale up the hypervisor didn't have enough memory and for some reason failed to migrate the VM to another hypervisor. This left my VM offline for many hours until I noticed it.

Gandi's customer support official response "don't use it". Gandi's management response "you are right - we don't have enough monitoring and are looking into it". With no follow ups.

At least they credited me, generously, for their latest outage in their US datacenter.

The registrar part of Gandi (their historical business) is very, very good. The hosting part (more recent business) slightly less so.

Some domain registrars send postal notices. However they don't charge discount pricing.