And the saga reaches a conclusion. I called a friend who was supposed to have a friend involved with the reseller for my Tucows registered domain, and it turns out that the friend I called is the person involved with that, and they explained that the reason my autorenewal didn't happen when it was supposed to and that I also couldn't log in was because Tucows notified him that they were updating their storefront, and that update included trashing everything and he had to reset things and add another email address and I was able to go in and renew. I still might switch my stuff to Porkbun because this has been completely unacceptable, but I can contact Namecheap and let them know I've regained access and so we don't need to go through the whole verify ID thing. I think tonight may be beer night as well. We'll see though.