I have nothing against you all. I am not taking sides either. But I want to clarify one thing.

ekantipur.com is not a TLD. It is a domain name registered under .COM TLD

.COM TLD is owned by Verisign. Registrars have to pay a certain fee for any domains delegated on the .COM domain to Verisign and certain $$ to ICANN.

Godaddy is just an authorized registrar for .COM TLD among many others and happens to be the largest one out there. They will renew based on renewal requests, and considering that you are just renewing with the same registrar and not making any changes to your NS or A records, ekantipur.com miserably failed to understand that their website is actually viewed by thousands and they should have renewed it before the expiry date. They followed the reactive approach and we should denounce any unprofessional conduct - may be it due to lack of proper back-office tasks, lack of proper personnel to do the job, or just ignorance for that matter. 

And let this be lessons learned for other domains out there, be professional or be prepared to hear criticism. This is a positive criticism to help you guys improve on you practices.

Thanks