Important note re: ICANN new expiry policy. Yes it does affect you.

The Renew Grace Period will be revised from 40 to 36 days for all .COM, .NET, .ORG, .INFO, .BIZ, .NAME, and .US domain names starting August 31, 2013.

You can refer to the complete ICANN ERRP announcement here - http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/consensus-policies/errp