Quoting Hendrik Boom (hendrik@???):

> Good that that works for you.
> But for someone with attantion deficit, that couple of minutes a year is
> difficult.

(1) Keep domains you care about registered with five years of runtime.
There really is not disadvantage worth mentioning.

(2) Run d-check as a weekly cron job to remind yourself of upcoming
domain registrations.
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/preventing-expiration.html
http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/network/