heres a theoretical situation for you * cough cough *
Your running a huge site, everything is going great. So you get in a car wreck and break your leg, now your in the hospital..
You own
www.verycoolhipsite.com
it is set to expire in july1 2004 but no problems as your registrar has your credit card on file and is set to rebill before it expires
epassporte locks your account the week before it expires and what do you know the rebill is declined and the domain expires..
Guess where that puts you...