Can a registrar outage affect my website?

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Published on 2012-11-21T04:35:26Z Indexed on 2012/11/21 5:22 UTC
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If my registrar has an outage and their servers go down for a while, will that affect my website. I'm not using any of my registrar hosting packages or name servers, I simply have a few domain names registered with them that point to my actual hosting provider.

Based on my current understanding on how these things work I believe that an outage at my registrar will not affect my websites at all, but I'd like to hear this from someone with more experience in this field.

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