After bothering [DRuG]Elite about it this afternoon, I lost patience and just logged into his account myself.. where we have the drugcrew.com registered.. my original plan was just to update the links a bit and see if it had any effect - turns out, the domain was due to expire in a week.. piece of luck I happened to be in there - I really hope they weren't resetting the connections as a way of reminding me to pay the bill - that would really suck.
Anyway..
Final Amount : $19.38
STATUS PRODUCT TYPE PRODUCT NAME QTY YEARS MORE INFO
SUCCESS RENEW drugcrew.com 1 2 Command completed successfully
After paying up, it seems, the problem has gone away.. guess I didn't learn anything today.. we all know what happens when you don't pay the bills already, I'm sure.