This is a good move. As Ukrainian before the war broke, I tried to convince my Russian contacts to do something about it. At least publicly state that they are against the war. Exactly one (!) out of my ~50 Russian Facebook "friends" wrote a public post. Now, as my fellow citizens die under Russian bombs, I consider all who stayed silent complicit. Unless they personally feel the consequences of their government actions, Putin will continue to commit more crimes with their silent approval.
Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
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#842We 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…
I'm moving our of Russia with my family. I was glad that my business was already outside of it. Now this domain stuff just added up to a pile of problems I must solve. And the effect is negative - I moved domains out of NameCheap to Russia simply because any other US or EU based registrar can do the same crazy thing and are not trusted. So Putin's regime actually got more money out of this.
You're just the average russian right now. Complaining when the war pulls them out from their comfortable orwellian reality. No social network, e-payments, entertainment and start to cry.
Where were you last Wednesday for instance, hours before the "pacification" took place? Not complaining perhaps, not doing anything.
Not doing anything
Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#843We 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…
> People that are getting angry need to point that at the cause, their own government. Believe me, I'm very angry at my government. Unlike you, I've been protesting the regime for several years, putting my health and well-being at risk. I've donated thousands of dollars to anti-regime organizations. And I'm currently in the process of fleeing the country because of this. So I'm also very angry at you, for screwing me…
so, putin was right! the west hate us! russophobia!
please...
Nobody hates Russians. Hell, I like Russians a lot. But this is war. World is unfair. I hope you see your "sanction" is such a minor grievance if compared to people that just died in an unjust war. That's why it would have been more elegant and with decorum just to be silent and accept this without whining that (omg!) your domain needs to move.
Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#844While I deeply understand Namecheap's sentiment, it still feels as a bad move to me. IMHO, net neutrality shall be above this. If not, at some point in time we are just going to have Western, Russian and Chinese internet (the latter more or less already implemented).
Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#845We 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…
Not Russian (I'm from Argentina), but I'll move all of my domains right away. This is absolutely nuts. I do not care about this war at all, but more importantly, I won't be keeping my domains in a registrar that arbitrarily cuts down on customers from being from a particular country. How anyone would support this is beyond me. New world order virtue signalling at it fullest.
> I do not care about this war at all
ok. that's your problem.
Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#846We 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…
So far the global sanctions regime has been carefully constructed against the Russian state and specific companies and people supporting it. This is the first time I've seen someone targeting blanket sanctions at the Russian people - it may help your conscience but I'm not sure it helps those in Ukraine - presumably the Russian regime isn't a customer of Namecheap? Sanctioning citizens helps boost the governments case that the US/Nato/world is conspiring against Russia.
Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#847The point is very much to create additional cost and disruption for the Russian economy. Namecheap’s step doesn’t do much in this regard, but perhaps it convinces other services to follow suit and stop doing business with Russian entities. After all, it’s the Russian economy that pays for the war. Whatever creates a competitive disadvantage for a Russian companies will subsequently harm their revenue stream and the t…
Did the Europeans stop buying natural gas from Russia?
It’s a lot harder to grandstand when you’re freezing to death.
Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#848I 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…
Yeah, but this is HN. A weirdly libertarian group full of COVID deniers, people who think that it originated in a Wuhan lab, and those who care more about privacy than _literally anything else_
HN people are not normal. I generally ignore it on things like this, seems like the crazies come out in force.
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#849It's funny how human brain works (or mine anyway). Russian living in the UK, got the same email. While I hate Putin, and understand this decision, still seeing this makes me think "f*k you Namecheap and all your Ukrainian employees". Go figure.
Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#850Time to create a decentralized registrar. Is that even possible?