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WhoisGuard Privacy Protection is now free

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Re: WhoisGuard Privacy Protection is now free

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Post by NamecheapCEO »

StavrosK wrote: post #43

Ugh, leave it to Namecheap to fuck up extremely simple UX. Instead of just giving me a toggle in the domain settings, I have to add WhoisGuard to my cart, once per domain (for the tens of domains I own), then go and select "10 years" in the purchasing screen (and wait for the entire page to reload) once for each domain, and then go through the entire checkout process to pay $0. Why not just let me click a single butt…

This is coming on our next iteration and WhoisGuard will simply be feature in the future.

Re: WhoisGuard Privacy Protection is now free

#52

Post by jamiek88 »

ted0 wrote: post #41
joering2 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their table to see how they stand up against competitors is hilarious! So many free privacy providers since ever like Dreamhost, Namesilo, BrandShelter, Marcaria (some TLDs), but yet you look at that table and you think "wow they are the only one". I take it as a deceiving advertising.

GoDaddy still charges more than 2X what we used to charge for WhoisGuard. We have always given away WhoisGuard for the first year of registration and have always been transparent about the renewal charge. However, now it is 100% free. No deception here. Teddy from Namecheap

People on here could find a dollar and complain that it wasn’t a twenty.

I for one am glad of this upgrade and I have dozens of domains, makes a difference.

Re: WhoisGuard Privacy Protection is now free

#53

Post by StavrosK »

NamecheapCEO wrote: post #51
StavrosK wrote: post #43

Ugh, leave it to Namecheap to fuck up extremely simple UX. Instead of just giving me a toggle in the domain settings, I have to add WhoisGuard to my cart, once per domain (for the tens of domains I own), then go and select "10 years" in the purchasing screen (and wait for the entire page to reload) once for each domain, and then go through the entire checkout process to pay $0. Why not just let me click a single butt…

This is coming on our next iteration and WhoisGuard will simply be feature in the future.

That's good to hear, thank you. I was half-afraid that the UX was left like this so it would be easy to roll back.

Re: WhoisGuard Privacy Protection is now free

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Post by ted0 »

zimbatm wrote: post #23

Notice how they don't compare against Gandi which provided the same service for free for a long time already. https://wiki.gandi.net/en/domains/private-registration

Good folks over at Gandi but our prices at Namecheap have always been much more competitive.

Re: WhoisGuard Privacy Protection is now free

#55

Post by [deleted] »

s_dev wrote: post #44
StavrosK wrote: post #43

Ugh, leave it to Namecheap to fuck up extremely simple UX. Instead of just giving me a toggle in the domain settings, I have to add WhoisGuard to my cart, once per domain (for the tens of domains I own), then go and select "10 years" in the purchasing screen (and wait for the entire page to reload) once for each domain, and then go through the entire checkout process to pay $0. Why not just let me click a single butt…

I actually switched to Namecheap because the UI/UX design was so much better than my previous registrar: IrishHosting You might be able to see room for improvement but they're better than 90% of the other registrars.

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Re: WhoisGuard Privacy Protection is now free

#56

Post by ted0 »

jamiek88 wrote: post #52
ted0 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GoDaddy still charges more than 2X what we used to charge for WhoisGuard. We have always given away WhoisGuard for the first year of registration and have always been transparent about the renewal charge. However, now it is 100% free. No deception here. Teddy from Namecheap

People on here could find a dollar and complain that it wasn’t a twenty. I for one am glad of this upgrade and I have dozens of domains, makes a difference.

Glad you are glad :)

Re: WhoisGuard Privacy Protection is now free

#57

Post by frockington »

corobo wrote: post #48
ve55 wrote: post #46

It's pretty absurd to require users to continually pay you money with threat of revealing all of their personal information publicly if they ever choose to stop paying you. I can't imagine many industries getting away with that except for registrars due to how the whois system has worked historically, but it's basically just extortion, keep paying us or you're doxxed. Whois privacy should be the default everywhere fo…

I realise it's not even in the same ball park really but the US health service works in that way from an outsider's perspective "Keep paying us or die"

That is how services work. You pay money, you receive a service. If all tax payers in other countries stopped paying money, people would "die"

Re: WhoisGuard Privacy Protection is now free

#58

Post by nomercy400 »

ve55 wrote: post #46

It's pretty absurd to require users to continually pay you money with threat of revealing all of their personal information publicly if they ever choose to stop paying you. I can't imagine many industries getting away with that except for registrars due to how the whois system has worked historically, but it's basically just extortion, keep paying us or you're doxxed. Whois privacy should be the default everywhere fo…

If only there were laws in place to protect your privacy. Oh wait.

Re: WhoisGuard Privacy Protection is now free

#59

Post by weiming »

StavrosK wrote: post #43

Ugh, leave it to Namecheap to fuck up extremely simple UX. Instead of just giving me a toggle in the domain settings, I have to add WhoisGuard to my cart, once per domain (for the tens of domains I own), then go and select "10 years" in the purchasing screen (and wait for the entire page to reload) once for each domain, and then go through the entire checkout process to pay $0. Why not just let me click a single butt…

I used to have many domains at NameCheap and left after their redesign a couple of years ago. Huge spacing, many clicks to get to any information, and good luck trying to update multiple domains. Seems like they wanted to alienate their pro/bulk users in favor of the buy-a-one-page-website crowd.

Route53 (using now) just makes more sense: easy programmatic access, unified billing with other services, included domain privacy, and no games with renewal pricing/discounts.

Re: WhoisGuard Privacy Protection is now free

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Post by weinzierl »

I see a lot of comments about how clumsy this solution is and that it doesn’t work for some TLDs.

The solution I’m using is MyPrivacy.ca. It’s not a 1:1 replacement for WHOIS privacy but solves the Spam problem very well, it’s easy to set up and it works for all TLDs.

It is basically an opt-in email forwarder with a customizable whitelist of common registrars and NICs. So you will never miss an important mail from your registrar while most Spam will never make it through the challenge/response process.

It’s completely free and run by the guy behind easydns.ca (Mark Jeftovic).

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