https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/namecheap-is-banning-russians-asks-them-to-switch-registrars/

namecheap CEO defending himself in comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812

  • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    People pre-payed namecheap for years of service because they were paranoid that if they waited much longer, they're credit cards won't work outside of Russia. Now they are forced to move their domains/VPSs/webhosting to a Russian webhost. Anyone running an anti-war or anti-Putin website must now do it under Putin's eye.

    Namecheap CEO is a fucking dumbass. Just gave away all their customer's to whatever oligarch owns the biggest Russian webhost. Putin thanks him for his generous economic stimulus package.

    Also, now I know that namecheap will boot me off their service with zero days notice for whatever cherry-picked whims their CEO feels this week.

    • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I forgot to mention, I think less than a week ago namecheap sent out an email about web3/NFTs. I was already wondering if I should move all my domains/services to another company just for that...

      • neo [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I must be unsubscribed from the marketing emails b/c i did not see this one. can't even imagine where i'd try to migrate my domains to, i feel like most of the registrars are shitty to deal with.

          • neo [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            "businesses rushing to adopt a metaverse strategy" lmaooooooooo yeah b/c it's a make-work program for middle managers to appear busy. Including the middle managers of namecheap.