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Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#922We 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…
Thanks for clarifying why not to use your service
Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#923We 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…
Are you sure this will help your objective? Putin is a maniac and his war is horrible. But as you've probably seen from all the 'prisoners of war' videos out of Ukraine, most soldiers don't want to fight this war. Russians that are savvy enough to setup their own domain, will also be the ones that use a VPN to read foreign news. Very few in the Russian "tech scene" like Putin. Shutting down their means of communicati…
Be very careful forming opinion about Russia's army based on these videos. These videos are intended to help other Russian soldiers decide to surrender ("you'll be treated well" message) and that's about it.
They are ruthless and this war is going to be absolutely ruthless if it will not stop soon. Russians had no trouble bombing and shelling sieged cities, hospitals, and even UN convoys in Syria, and they'll do it in Ukraine, too. They're alredy using cluster munitions in the city streets, shit like butterfly mines, etc., and it's going to be a lot worse once they set up heavy artilery and complete the sieges.
This time they'll not be able to lie about it in the west all that easilly, judging by the reaction in my country. Xenophobia will be less of a hindrance to seeing things clearly, at least in some eastern european countries, compared to their Syrian involvement.
But I'm already starting to see the same justifications being used to bomb the cities, as was used in Syria.
Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#924It 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…
This "Mean Girls" style of running a company is not something I'm willing to accept even for remotely important services.
Banning access by the country bombing your offices and employees seems rational. How is it "Mean girls" behavior?
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#925I am a Russian citizen from birth who permanently lives and works in the UK. I do not support Russian regime in any way and offered my help with relocation to Russian and Ukrainian citizens from the start - see my post in LinkedIn. On namecheap I hold non-ru related domain paid till February 2023. So what the heck they are blaming me for being Russian and terminating the contract without any agreement?
> So what the heck they are blaming me for being Russian and terminating the contract without any agreement?
This is how economic sanctions work. You hit the nation economically to put pressure on the politicians. In any case people are at least in part responsible for their governments. If you have an issue with it, join protests against Putin, do things to stop him from committing murder and war crimes. In the meantime, the sanctions here are not your fault, nor are they Namecheaps - they are Putin's fault.
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#926Blindly distinguishing people by nationality is the first step to Nazism. Being a Ukrainian by myself I'd like to tell you that your statement is extremely bad idea.
> Blindly distinguishing people by nationality is the first step to Nazism.
Come on now, that's not even factually correct. One of the first things the Nazis did was launch an unprovoked attack on an eastern european nation.
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#927Lol, I also received this message. I've lived in Poland for the past 31 years and am also busy volunteering with help to Ukrainian refugees. I never voted for anything related to Russia, because I'm not a registered voter - I don't have a "propiska" (legal address in Russia) since 1995.
Very incompetent move, Mr. CEO of Namecheap. I understand you want to get likes on social media and get rich on this hype. Instead I'd recommend donating money to real causes, like help on the Ukrainian border, food, medicine, migration attorneys.
Your move is empty and stupid.
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#928I expect you to do the same for US, GB or IL nationals when their governments invade yet another mid-east country.
Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#929We 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…
Just thinking out loud about this... I am a business owner that sells services worldwide. We've just checked and found that a non-trivial number of our customers are registered in Russia. I don't feel comfortable with our company receiving their money. I am appalled and horrified by the invasion and I wish to make this right some how. I just don't know what to do here as the leader. I've had relationships with some o…
I think that the best idea, depending on what services you provide (since that matters in terms of tactics and communication), would be to take the money and donate it all to the Ukrainian war efforts (Option 2). Make an announcement to that effect, but a very, very low key one.
That way any Russians doing business with you that do support Putin will pull their money (or you take their money and give it to their enemies, preventing them from using those resources elsewhere), while Russians who do not support Putin will keep using your service. By making the announcement low-key enough/missable, you give Russians opposed to Putin a plausible out. "Oh, sorry, the sanctions/West took out my net for a while and I didn't see that they were dirty traitors, my bad." It might at least buy someone one extra chance/time to communicate.
If 80% of international companies throw out their Russian customers, then the Kremlin has to look fewer places to find where their domestic opposition is hiding things or talking. If I want to know what kind of credit card someone has, there are only a few options. If I want to know where someone bought a certain candy bar? That's a lot harder.
Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#930We 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 find this action from Namecheap really lazy virtue signalling and your justifications to be hypocritical, for reasons pointed out elsewhere in this thread. If you were really interested in attempting to do the right thing, you would ban on a case-by-case basis, or donate a percentage of your profits to the Red Cross in Ukraine or something. There's no justification for this heavy-handed nonsense. I'll do my best to…
Russian forces are literally bombing their offices in Kharkiv. How is it "virtue signaling" to say you're not happy to sell your services to the country trying to kill you?
this whole thread and people's responses disgust me, people saying they're virtue signaling, and that it's "bad business practice" to cut off services like that. They're in a warzone and this is what people are upset about?!