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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by MysticKnight »

NicoJuicy wrote: post #95
MysticKnight wrote: post #84

I also got this email. How will this affect me? I dont have any Russian domains/tlds, nor am I in Russia and never have been. I'm in England, born here and have lived here my whole life? The only domains I have are ".xyz" , ".cam", ".pw" tlds. My hosting is from Hetzner in Germany. I have zero links to Russia. The email says in bold "If you hold any top-level domains with us, we ask that you transfer them to another…

Response of namecheap CEO to a similar issue: > You'll be fine, please contact us and we'll get you whitelisted. Point here if any confusion with our support team.

I sent off a support ticket, hopefully they sort it out, I was already in the process of moving a domain out anyway and was considering moving the others as they are nearing expiry/renewal anyway in a couple months.

I usually use Google Domains, they've been pretty solid for the last few years, the only reason I used Namecheap to begin with was because they were so cheap but now its almost the same price as most places to renew and theres little incentive to stay.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by woodruffw »

raxi wrote: post #109

But such moves only shows the unreliability of businesses that preach net neutrality and similar things and in fact discriminate based on ethnicity. So they show that Putin is right, that democracy and liberalism are dead, that Ukrainians are nazi, and rally people around him even more.

Net neutrality is a concept in American telecommunications law, not an international political or philosophical concept.

It has nothing to do with Russia, and even less to do with services running on the Internet: it solely concerns itself with the relationship between ISPs and the traffic they carry. Namecheap is not an ISP.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by NamecheapCEO »

codegeek wrote: post #105
NamecheapCEO wrote: post #42

We haven't blocked the domains, we are asking people to move. There are plenty of other choices out there when it comes to infrastructure services so this isn't "deplatforming". I sympathize with people that are not pro regime but ultimately even those tax dollars they may generate go to the regime. We have people on the ground in Ukraine being bombarded now non stop. I cannot with good conscience continue to support…

I am an American and lucky not to have anything in Russia but as a namecheap customer, I urge you to please be patient with people and give them time to move. I understand the decision you made and it is your right to do so but please do not block someone just because they couldn't do it by a certain date. I am sure you know but empathy is really needed right now. Your March 6 deadline worries me.

We'll definitely consider extending the deadline if it is causing problems.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by vmception »

Russian wrote: post #108

I believe we should start a group lawsuit against Namecheap in US courts. The damage they will make will be much, MUCH greater than a domain name renewal cost. We didn't violate a single point of the agreement and nobody of us is in US SDN list. This specific company think it can fuck a contract just because they want and we should stop this. Internet is a territory of freedom where we do not sort people.

Do it, its a good time as any to remind people that “using their platform” is a two way street

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by NamecheapCEO »

Russian wrote: post #108

I believe we should start a group lawsuit against Namecheap in US courts. The damage they will make will be much, MUCH greater than a domain name renewal cost. We didn't violate a single point of the agreement and nobody of us is in US SDN list. This specific company think it can fuck a contract just because they want and we should stop this. Internet is a territory of freedom where we do not sort people.

We have every right to choose who we do or don't do business with. We are a private company and are protected as such. If you need more time to move away, reach out.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by [deleted] »

effnamecheap wrote: post #23

Simply an American, and I’ll be moving my dozen domains off of Namecheap. Attacking random Russians for something you don’t like of their leader is as dumb as post-9/11 Sikh bashing or interning German/Italian/Japanese after Pearl Harbor and the war declaration. Way to make a shit situation worse.

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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by tguvot »

exizt88 wrote: post #85
tguvot wrote: post #40

Given that Russian vodka is blacklisted from stores in USA (and Finland!) and replaced with message "we stand with Ukraine", it's not really surprising. I read interview with somebody from Russia yesterday, russian tracks getting their tires punctured in EU and get stuck because credit cards don't work anymore. Ships refuse to offload goods in Russian ports and drop them of "wherever in Europe". Russian companies can…

I don't understand how "collateral damage" is relevant. Aren't people supposed to minimize collateral damage? Namecheap didn't HAVE to do this. The chose to do this in a very particular way, which hurt its customers, especially those opposing Putin's regime and currently fleeing the country.

I don't want to start flame war, and I really feel bad for your situation for for situation of many other people who opposed Putin regime who got majorly f(&d today (my head was spinning last few days as I saw russian economy falling through the bottom while city where I born is shelled), but... actions (or not actions) of Russian population over past 20 years created today's situation (don't tell me that you don't know the common opinion in russia that Ukrainians not really nation and do not deserve their own state). You are unfortunately collateral damage of your own actions, not of those of EU. EU and rest of the world trying to do damage control.

I really do sorry for your situation, I really hope that namecheap will work out with you. I do hope that EU and other countries will extend humanitarian visas to people that try to escape russia now before iron curtain will fall down. Yet, at this moment, it is what it is.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by Matheus28 »

exizt88 wrote: post #85
tguvot wrote: post #40

Given that Russian vodka is blacklisted from stores in USA (and Finland!) and replaced with message "we stand with Ukraine", it's not really surprising. I read interview with somebody from Russia yesterday, russian tracks getting their tires punctured in EU and get stuck because credit cards don't work anymore. Ships refuse to offload goods in Russian ports and drop them of "wherever in Europe". Russian companies can…

I don't understand how "collateral damage" is relevant. Aren't people supposed to minimize collateral damage? Namecheap didn't HAVE to do this. The chose to do this in a very particular way, which hurt its customers, especially those opposing Putin's regime and currently fleeing the country.

The only way to make change is to inconvenience people.
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