Customer Paid for a Domain. Is Payment-to-Registration Time a Real Metric?

Hosting companies usually watch payment success and provisioning time.

Domain orders add another checkpoint: the registration itself.

If a crypto payment needs confirmation before the registrar call is made, a domain can remain available even though the customer has already started paying.

For a routine order it may not matter. For a strong name, it can.

Should payment-to-registration time be treated as a real provisioning metric?