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Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by jopsen »

waffle_maniac wrote: post #286
risyachka wrote: post #184

I will respond to this one. It's good that you tried to fight the regime. Clearly it wasn't enough. You live in society, not in the woods. The majority decides how all live - like in any other country. In your country majority decided not to overthrow dictatorship. As result, minority suffers. So here is your answer.

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Economic pressure will eventually reduce the threat that Russia poses. This is a long-term strategy.

It'll take years, and it will drag the Russian people into poverty.

Sad, but what's the alternative?

With a little luck this avoids a war. Russians might suffer, but they would also suffer of we fight a war.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by int_19h »

hurflmurfl wrote: post #17
vbezhenar wrote: post #4

While I'm not from Russia, I guess I have to move domains to the registrar in my country. It's just not safe to do any business abroad, when I can't go to the court in case of anything happens and all my property could be seized if someone wouldn't like actions of my government.

I think it's pretty ironic, considering that that's probably the one thing domain owners in Russia wouldn't want - the Russian government being able to seize the domain.

Exactly. This is helping Putin build his own "national Internet" that they've been talking about for so long. And the more successful he is at that, the more isolated Russians will be from world news, and the more exposed to Russian propaganda (which is already hysterical).

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by awb »

ainar-g wrote: post #78
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…

> We haven't blocked the domains, we are asking people to move. Putin has announced recently that cross-border payments in USD and EUR are to be blocked. Which means that most Russians affected by this won't be able to pay for a registrar outside of Russia. People here have mentioned transferring their domain names to NIC.RU, the state-owned registrar. Which means that Putin actually receives more money because of th…

> Which means that Putin actually receives more money because of this.

Realistically how much money are we talking about?

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by _-david-_ »

whatshisface wrote: post #288
Alir3z4 wrote: post #62

Received the same. Such a shitty move. Moving some left over from them to nic.ru Why not ban every single US and NATO country users for the slaughter of many countries including but not limited to Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, Yemen, Libya... because of the actions of their government? Fuck this mentality that makes the life of ordinary people harder and call it "sympathy".

If an Iraqi company wanted to stop doing business with US clients during the Iraq war, they'd come across as reasonable.

Namecheap is an American company.

It would be closer to a Mongolian company decides to stop doing business with US clients because of the Iraq War.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by int_19h »

NamecheapCEO wrote: post #72
asats wrote: post #7

Not living in Russia (moved because of the government oppression) apparently is not sufficient to not be hit by this ban, just having any russia-related information gets you kicked out looks like. Really great move by them.

If you are no longer based there and are not contributing to the regime in any way via taxes/duties we can whitelist you.

Does sending money back to your parents / grandparents in Russia count as "contributing to the regime"?

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by mustardo »

hell69 wrote: post #330
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…

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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by int_19h »

kolbusa wrote: post #3
exizt88 wrote: post #2

This is a really, really fucked up thing to do. Many Russians are currently scrambling to move their families and businesses abroad, away from Putin's regime (myself included). This will put additional pressure on people who are in a very difficult situation already and actively oppose the war. I sincerely hope Namecheap reconsiders.

They have offices in Ukraine. I got this e-mail as well. This is collateral damage. You can get an another domain. Many people won't get their life back. Fuck Putin, fuck the war.

Collateral to what? They aren't dealing any actual damage to the regime, just some random people who had the misfortune of being born in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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