I'm talking about domain name registration and registration companies, not dead people! rofl
example:
http://www.networksolutions.com and
http://www.godaddy.com
I want to register a domain name for 10yrs, but I'm concerned that my registration company, godaddy.com, won't be around that long. If the registrar, godaddy.com, closes, then I want to have access to my DNS records all the same.