Well done sir. Thank you for standing up for your employees.
Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
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>I have to say I am appalled. Breaching hundreds, potentially even thousands of contracts for some cancel culture virtue signalling? This is beyond unprofessional.
The majority of Namecheap's employees live in Ukraine, and Russia is trying to 'cancel' them with military weapons. Right now.
>The precedent this is creating is beyond dangerous and not just for Namecheap as a company but also for the rest of the Internet.
If there is a dangerous precedent here, I do not think it is Namecheap's actions.
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#533As 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…
Let me know how many domains you’re transferring out of Namecheap so that I can transfer that many back in. For everyone upset about this decision, there will be 100s who applaud it.
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#534A video from 6 years ago that pretty much predicted what is happening, and why it's not as straightforward as it is made out to be
https://youtu.be/JrMiSQAGOS4
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#535We 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 have people on the ground in Ukraine being bombarded now non stop. I cannot with good conscience continue to support the Russian regime in any way, shape or form.
What about the American regime currently bombing Somalia?
Or the Saudi regime currently bombing Yemen?
Or the Israeli regime currently bombing Syria?
Or the ... regime currently bombing ...? You get the point, surely.
Why the selective enforcement against just this one particular regime?
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#536Bro just build your own internet.
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#537This is really wrong. I'm a Russian national, and I'm not supporting aggression towards Ukraine. In contrast, I've spent last two days in police after being detained due to the fact that I dared to express my condemnation in public protest. I am not my government, and apart from starting a one-man revolution with a pretty obvious result, I'm doing everything I can to raise awareness, condemn actions of Russian govern…
> your company has a lot of Ukrainian employees That raises a question: how to find a domain registar without a lot of Ukrainian employees ? According to the recent leak, Epik has them a lot as well. Could we crowdsource such a list of registrars sorted by nationality of their employees to be prepared to the geo risks?
Regardless of your intentions, your list idea would be used for racist discrimination.
You might consider a list of registrars that do stuff you disagree with instead.
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That’s a huge ask considering the sheer scale of people jailed for protesting. You’re not wrong, this person’s problems are dwarfed by those who are dead or might soon be dead. I’m just not sure protesting is actually a sane solution given the potential consequences. Like, who knows what happens to jailed protesters. Are they going to be okay? Is it worth it? I don’t have the answers, just trying to point out that it…
Jail space is finite. If enough Russians care, they cannot possibly hope to jail them all.
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I hope anyone that lives in the US realizes this applies to us too.
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#540As 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…
You inadvertently argued against your own point. Your friend's startup died, that damages the economy, that is what economic sanctions are designed to do. Whether the specific instance of sanctioning was justified is another matter of course, but the point is that the economy was damaged. That hurts ordinary people yes, but - this is a war. Better an economic hit than being bombed or shot.
> that is what economic sanctions are designed to do
Agreed - that is the point. To hurt ordinary people so that they care (not said lightly). Sanctions are designed to punish a whole country.
While messed up, you can't just affect/punish the leadership. If you could we would already be doing that. The way to hurt the leaders is to hurt the ordinary people such that they vote, rise up, etc against the governmental actions.
Russia's ruble has dropped up to 40%+ because of the sanctions and the people are pulling their money in droves. This puts huge pressure on Putin to rethink what he's doing by making it incredibly expensive to wage this war.