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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by godmode2019 »

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…

Russia is a petrostate all of Europe is supporting the Russian side financially.

Are you going to ban all European citizens because of the actions of their government?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/european-...

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by lolwtfyouclown »

raxi wrote: post #83
rmnc wrote: post #55

This 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?

The best approach is probably to have multiple domains from multiple registrars and registries for your website.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by throwaway5848 »

aluminum96 wrote: post #548

Many people in this thread seem to feel that a Namecheap domain is an inalienable right. On the contrary, a company whose employees are being brutally besieged as we speak has every right to reassess who it does business with.

Unfortunately, that is not the customer's problem. But yes, Namecheap has every right to irreversibly damage their brand, of course.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by spoonjim »

Poorly thought out policy (migrate domains in 1 week?) made in the heat of the moment when everyone has a better place to be directing their attention. Expect a reversal within 72 hours but a permanent loss of customer trust (I have five domains with Namecheap but for the first time ever I’m now wondering if that’s smart).

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by lolwtfyouclown »

contingencies wrote: post #44
hurflmurfl wrote: post #10

Great, now amid looking for ways to get my family out I also have to find another registrar who will not do the same thing and transfer my domains so that my cloud and email are still working. Any politically neutral registrars that HN crowd can recommend?

Gandi are no bullshit . Ask them.

I don't know if it's still true nowadays but Gandi was started by a group of hackers / Internet libertarians who were involved (as defenders) in the very first cases of Internet censorship in France.

So hopefully they have kept that spirit and don't do any of that bullshit.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by nix9000 »

52-6F-62 wrote: post #440
firekvz wrote: post #244

As 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…

They have employees in Kharkiv. If I had employees in a city being bombed out, I'd probably stop doing business with/within the entity doing the bombing, too. It's not a PR move. If my arm is being injured, I move to protect it. I'm sure you would, too.

>It's not a PR move. If my arm is being injured, I move to protect it. I'm sure you would, too.

Stop doing business with Russians who have no power over Putin is not really "mov[ing] to protect" an injured arm. It's more like an angry wail. Which, fair enough. It's a perfectly understandable desire. I'd probably feel the same way if I were a Namecheap employee in Ukraine. But it doesn't really do anything to protect Ukraine's interests.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by johnnyApplePRNG »

Personally I am glad I stopped doing business with a business that takes a snap political stance such as this.

I left Namecheap for their price increases years ago. Their names are not cheap by any means. But that's beside the point.

The timeframe they've laid out is ridiculous, for starters. If I had any .su domains with them (which I've always thought were pretty cool relics of the internet) I would be PISSED and SCRAMBLING to make changes right now... Not fun.

If you're in business, do business.

If you're in politics, do politics.

I am extremely happy with porkbun for anyone looking to move away from Namecheap.

For the record, I am 50% Ukrainian.

Shame on you, Namecheap.

The internet was meant to be completely neutral ground.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by throwaway33f »

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 [deleted] »

kweingar wrote: post #588
jkadlec wrote: post #478

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I'm uncomfortable with this argument. It seems that people here are pretty comfortable advocating for regime change in Russia and punishing the population until it happens. I don't think the implications of this have been thought out at all. If Bay of Pigs had instead been an open invasion, I can't imagine expecting Americans (especially ones who already opposed intervention!) to hear an argument like "we're incremen…

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