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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by likecarter »

swagasaurus-rex wrote: post #155
xtracto wrote: post #141

I am from a third party country that has absolutely nothing to do with this war, but my thought after seeing Russian civilians complain about these policies is that, they should stand up, go out of their home and complain to their government. The reason why all the world is doing this is because their freaking leader (Putin) has threatened nuclear war, and is pushing for war, invading a country. Like... hello? you ha…

In some places including Russia, there is punishment for speaking up and trying to fix things.

Unfortunately, it seems like mass protests are the best option at this point. Otherwise, Russia and the world will suffer.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by ratg13 »

hereforphone wrote: post #133

If they're willing to terminate service for political reasons in this case, who's to say they won't do it in the future for other political reasons? Here begins the slippery slope of Namecheap terminating service to those it deems "wrong". Been a happy, confident Namecheap user for a long time. Now I'm not so confident.

Personally I'd hope that anyone that gets their offices bombed by another nation would stop and think critically about how much they want to support the people trying to literally kill them.

Profit isn't everything.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by thrwyoilarticle »

propagandist wrote: post #458
hamaluik wrote: post #276

I am frankly shocked and dismayed at the number of people deriding this decision. In a grey world this seems like such a black and white thing. Sure it may inconvenience a few, but on the other hand innocents are being slaughtered. All the weight of these complaints don't even begin to touch the scale when compared to literal children being murdered. Besides all that, Namecheap is a private company and can do busines…

I understand namecheap's decision because they have coworkers in Ukraine. However, unless you apply that same logic to the US, UK, and a host of other nations, you are being hypocritical. They have murdered so many civilians, including kids, that surely they deserve the same punishment. Yet we both know we're not about to see that, and I think we know why.

That same logic does apply. Private indivuduals of ISIS would not have sold services to the US, or vice versa, or for any other war in a century.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by X-Istence »

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…

Pardon my ignorance, but doesn't nic.ru already make money for each .ru domain that is registered?

Much like Verisign makes money for each .com/.net and Affilias makes money for each .name/.org that is registered?

Isn't the whole point of running a registry that you also get to collect some sort of fee for running the service?

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

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…

If only we Americans had to face the brunt of our invasions and destruction of so many countries in the middle East and other places. Maybe one day we will.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by [deleted] »

monday_ wrote: post #454
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…

Pathetic. I've been setting up infrastructure to do blockade running over the obviously coming great Russian firewall for the last few days and made a mistake of relying on your service. I did expect payment troubles. I did not expect you to help the Kremlin in isolating the Russian populace from uncensored news and communication platforms beyond its reach. Right now my grandparents are going to have greater problem…

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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by ridiculous_leke »

xtracto wrote: post #141

I am from a third party country that has absolutely nothing to do with this war, but my thought after seeing Russian civilians complain about these policies is that, they should stand up, go out of their home and complain to their government. The reason why all the world is doing this is because their freaking leader (Putin) has threatened nuclear war, and is pushing for war, invading a country. Like... hello? you ha…

> So yeah, I am happy that this thing is making Russian civilians uncomfortable. Hopefully they will be uncomfortable enough so that millions of Russian citizens raise their voice and stop this madness, before it is too late.

Is there a strong precedent for this? The USSR did fell due to economic hardships but a lot of factors are different when we consider Russia. A Russia with a destroyed economy will probably be just another country under Chinese sphere of influence.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by WatchDog »

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…

Not that it makes a whole lot of difference, but those explosions don't appear to cluster munitions.

Probably some kind of fragmentation rocket fired from a grad[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BM-21_Grad

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by thrwyoilarticle »

cheald wrote: post #305

I'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 gutp…

The Russian government does not exist in a bubble, it can only function with the functioning of the Russian economy. Russian individuals are gutpunched by every sanction, the families of Russian soldiers by every death.

If you don't want consequences for your citizens, don't go to war to enact consequences on other countries' citizens.

> for political points.

I do not think you understand the true motivation

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