I just received my Notice of Expiration of Aircraft Registration. All seems straight-forward and I understand the online procedure.
But I noticed an issue that I was wondering if anyone else had noticed. My current expiration date is December 31st, 2013. The re-registration must be accomplished by October 31st, 2013.
If I Re-register as of receipt of this letter now, the next expiration date is three years from the end of THIS month, not from December, or even October. In effect, that means I'm losing 5 or 6 months of the registration period. In three years I will receive another renewal form 6 months in advance of the expiration and I assume the same thing would happen. In other words, the re-registration could effectively be every two and a half years instead of three.
The obvious thing to do would be to wait until the last moment in October, but that still means two months lost.

So am I seeing this right?

Thanks,