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Worth checking out: someone reproduces using a fake address to get a real address. https://medium.com/@amaz/thank-you-for-sharing-this-but-i-co... (contains pretty great screencaptures)
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A happy NameCheap user for years, I have started switching away. Their horrid "modern" 40px padding everywhere bubbly redesign makes GoDaddy look good in comparison. A major pain to manage more than a couple of domains, and numerous user feedback seems to fall on deaf ears, e.g. [1][2][3][4] Example weird feature: all domains are shown, even ones that you've let expire/sold years ago, and there is no way to hide them…
Another ex-happy Namecheap customer here. Was going through credit card fraud issues back in July. In September out of nowhere get an email from Namecheap support that my July payment for one of the domains did not go through and I owe them $240 for the chargeback. No amount of reasoning got through to them - this is after several years of owning multiple domains with them. Dropped the penalty by $100, but that didn'…
This isn't about blackmail as jewsin writes in the comments, it's about the reputation a business suffers with a chargeback. All you would need to do is reverse the chargeback and the full charge would go away.
Disclosure: I work for Namecheap.
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Worse, they'll happily sell you Whoisguard for domains that don't support it. When you discover it's not usable, they'll give you a refund, then include it again in the next billing cycle. I switched to Namecheap based on recommendations here, and their previous stance on certain privacy issues, but I'm running out of alternatives.
A happy NameCheap user for years, I have started switching away. Their horrid "modern" 40px padding everywhere bubbly redesign makes GoDaddy look good in comparison. A major pain to manage more than a couple of domains, and numerous user feedback seems to fall on deaf ears, e.g. [1][2][3][4] Example weird feature: all domains are shown, even ones that you've let expire/sold years ago, and there is no way to hide them…
Also, the issue with all domains being shown is a bug. If you have a ticket number regarding this, please let me know and I'll investigate this further because it should be resolved.
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Another ex-happy Namecheap customer here. Was going through credit card fraud issues back in July. In September out of nowhere get an email from Namecheap support that my July payment for one of the domains did not go through and I owe them $240 for the chargeback. No amount of reasoning got through to them - this is after several years of owning multiple domains with them. Dropped the penalty by $100, but that didn'…
Wow, I was just about to switch to Namecheap. More people need to hear this. How can a registrar make DNS changes without permission and blackmail? Please write a blog post about this.
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At this point, 16 bits of entropy is more than the entropy of a lot of the passwords that I've seen.
You have 10 bits of entropy at best, unless you put it above 1024, at which point if it dies, any none privileged user on the box can sniff passwords.
Do you actually have untrusted users on the box?
Why would you not secure the custom port to root-only?
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> For example, gandi.net (and thus Amazon) doesn't hide your name when you have it turned on. Well, yeah, I've been with Gandi for years, that's their published policy: https://www.gandi.net/domain/whois/ > By the time you find this out You realize you should have done your homework and read your registrar's policies beforehand? I understand your overall point, but don't make it sound like Gandi did anything wrong he…
I would have left this very comment if you hadn't beaten me to it. :) Gandi is very up-front about every aspect of their services. I found out that Gandi's whois privacy doesn't hide the name you provide as the registrant long before I entered my credit card details to provide payment information. Their whois privacy is structured in this way because for many (all?) TLDs ICANN requires that the entity listed as the r…
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A happy NameCheap user for years, I have started switching away. Their horrid "modern" 40px padding everywhere bubbly redesign makes GoDaddy look good in comparison. A major pain to manage more than a couple of domains, and numerous user feedback seems to fall on deaf ears, e.g. [1][2][3][4] Example weird feature: all domains are shown, even ones that you've let expire/sold years ago, and there is no way to hide them…
Another Namecheap "gotcha" is they auto-renew any domains you have setup for auto-renewal a full month before you're due for expiration. So if you're thinking of moving away, and trying to decide as the expiration date approaches, make sure to disable auto-renew on those domains while you decide.
(Full disclosure: I work at Namecheap)
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They don't hide the name because you cannot hide the name while legally owning the domain yourself. Services that hide the name actually result in a company (e.g. "Domains by Proxy LLC") purchasing and holding domain ownership for you, which is a very different legal arrangement with different risks.
Treat a domain like money: if you want it held pseudonymously, you put it in the ownership of a shell corporation you control (through power of attorney to the board of directors), but don't own any equity in.
Whois is great for social engineering attackers. You get a name, email, address, and the first service to attack. Meanwhile, the ICANN is working around the clock to make it illegal for us to protect our personal information, and whois protection is becoming an increasingly niche service for registrars. For example, gandi.net (and thus Amazon) doesn't hide your name when you have it turned on. By the time you find th…
In the UK this and a lot more is public information. As an example of what is available about me online (without paying a penny) just by searching for my name: - The year I was born - The district I was born (not the exact town, although that wouldn't be hard to guess) - My mother's maiden name (which is what most banks et al ask as a security question...) - The areas I've lived (based upon the electoral register, wh…
It is a requirement to register if requested, the fine for failing to do so is £80. However, it is always an option to not appear on the open register. The open register is publicly accessible, and being absent from it will not be detrimental to your credit rating.