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Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by namecheapTA »

I've spent a thousand+ dollars at namecheap over the years. I've been a huge cheerleader for namecheap to my cloud crazy friends because of the great value for what you pay for, and great support even for their shared hosting.

I'm not affected by this, but I won't be as evangelical as I have been. I won't be migrating away, but for my next pet project, I'll probably check another provider out.

I understand they are being emotional because they have employees there. But they should step back and realize they are just being discriminatory and mean to people that basically don't have a choice.

Should I find the closest Russian owned business in my city and protest in front so that the owner loses money? For all I know he sends money back home to his mother!

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by crazypython »

concinds wrote: post #182

It may interest you to know that Namecheap, just a few days ago, banned a few domain names purely based on an ambiguous tweet that got 8 likes , that didn't even ask for those domains to be banned or cite any ToS violation. https://twitter.com/Namecheap/status/1489485337885921284 Namecheap then reverted that decision when they got ratioed (with no tweets supporting their decision). I've never heard of these domain na…

They banned doxajournal.ru, a student news organizing publishing anti-putin information.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by Seattle3503 »

xanaxagoras wrote: post #125

I'm not in Russia and I don't really care about this war (sorry, just being honest!) but this isn't the kind of internet I want, where companies show their virtue by taking political positions and removing service from their customers (looking at you AWS). The domain and e-mail service that I paid money for shouldn't be contingent on my government behaving and continuing to behave in a manor that Namecheap approves o…

> but this isn't the kind of internet I want, where companies show their virtue by taking political positions and removing service from their customers

Which virtue? Justice? Rage? They have 1700 Ukrainian employees, some in cities under siege right now.

They are at war and Russia is their enemy.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by namecheapTA »

andrewnicolalde wrote: post #309

Good on you, Namecheap. You’ve earned my continued business and genuine respect with this action.

If they turned off all your domains the next time America invaded a country, would you still be happy? Obviously they wont because by chance they are also in America, but it should make you think for a second just how fair this really is.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by alessivs »

Ansil849 wrote: post #535
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 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 agai…

They also fail to acknowledge the thousands deaths on both sides since 2014 until today, since the coup and introduction of Maidan snipers to kill the innocent. To name a concrete example, you can freely consult the magnitude of the casualties related to the Donbas-related conflict alone (some 13,000-14,000 lives since April 2014). Part of the staff is Ukrainian...they ought to know.

Why today? Perhaps the answer lies in the field of sociology or psychology.

As pointed out by others before me, this mainly pushes affected customers to transfer domains to Russia-based providers, increasing their profits (a little) and sphere of control (a little more).

...But it makes them feel better?

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Post by alinaish »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #517
jkadlec wrote: post #478

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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…

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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by akamaka »

This is an extremely big mistake. Not in the sense of politics, but because domain name providers are entrusted by the community to manage a very important and valuable asset. You shouldn’t be making these decisions amongst yourselves and without input from the people and businesses you serve. In fact, there’s a word to describe this type of decision making process, which you might be hearing a lot in the news right now.
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