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Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
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#302As a non-russia customer, I am inmediatly moving all of my domains I host at namecheap to another provider. this kind of stuff from private companies are useless, and downvote me all you want, they do not work, and dont come to lecture me from your SF desk while im living in a sanctioned country, how did the 2017-2019 sactions for Venezuela worked? Everyone in the world moved on and even forgot about our country, and…
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#303> Unfortunately, due to the Russian regime's war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine
Just to clarify, does your policy only apply to russians and their war crimes and human rights violations against ukraine specifically or is it a blanket policy? Will you refuse to register users from say the UK or France for their war crimes and human rights violations? Or say israel or saudi arabia? Or china or the US?
I guess I'm asking is this, are you doing this for free publicity or for genuine moral concern. You've been in business since 2000 and russia attacked georgia ( 2008? ). Did you stop registration also? Also, since 2000, there have been war crimes committed in iraq, afghanistan, syria, libya, etc, can you remind us what actions you took then and which peoples you prevented from using your service.
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#304We 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 have been a (US, before you accuse me of being Russian like you have done elsewhere in the thread) Namecheap customer for years, and have urged at least a dozen others to use your service. I won't be doing that in the future, your responses in this thread have killed any trust and goodwill I had for your service.
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#305I'm no fan of Putin or the Russian government's war, but I originally moved to Namecheap from GoDaddy over GoDaddy's support for SOPA. I want my registrar to be a registrar, not a political entity. Looks like I'll be looking for a new registrar to do business with going forward.
The Russian government are the bad guys here - people who happen to be in Russia are not. I'm not gonna do business with a company that gutpunches uninvolved individuals for political points.
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#306This is a terrible move. Virtue signaling at it's worst. Putin literally gives p
0 f'ck about namecheap. It doesn't do squat to him but meanwhile you're hurting regular Russian users for something they have no control over. Do you think they will be pressuring Putin to stop the war bc they can't use namecheap anymore? They will likely to be more mad at the west. Lastly, doing this is just going to increase the segregation of the internet even more which goes completely against the original intention of the internet.
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#307We 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 support your stance on this. Speaking as a Namecheap customer for several years now.
Why do you support this dump decision as it doesn’t help fighting the regime?
I just learnt in hard way that I am blamed for being Russian citizen(by ethnicity I’m not Russian), even if I live, work, pay all taxes in the UK?
How it’s different from nazis blaming Jewish for being Jewish?
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Because they don't want to be involved in operations in Russia, especially while having Ukranian employees. As the GGP points out, any transaction in Russia implicitly helps the government through taxes.
They have put their morality and employees' above whatever business they got out of being in Russia.
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#309Good on you, Namecheap. You’ve earned my continued business and genuine respect with this action.
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#310This makes me very uncomfortable, as a Russian. I have been living in Europe for the last > 16 years non stop (=refugee), but I still have (the only) Russian citizenship.
I completely understand the utter pointless of current war, but when will we start to see random Russians being threatened just for the sake being/speaking Russian on the street? You can't say both "Don't generalize!! All `X` are not like this!" and then go "Oh yeah all Russian bad. No cookie for your Russian a$$".
I don't see it happening right now, but that thought have crossed my mind already, and I am sure if that war continues, I won't be alone having it