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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#981
post #848

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…

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.

HN people feel the most normal to me of any online group.

All other social media sites feel extremely progressive with no room for nuance.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#982
What a great thing you do, heh.

Yes, I'm from Russia, too. I've got several 2nd level domains in .com, .net, .org and .info, and I'm used to use services from registrars like namecheap, actually I was using namecheap for a couple of years in the past. What I never did is, well, I never used these .ru and .su, it is obvious local government can do anything to 2lds under these tlds. BTW, it is much much simpler to run a site, or whatever, under these tlds when you're in Russia, you can pay in local currencies, you've got consumer rights protection, you don't need to understand English (yes, many people here don't understand English), etc. Pro-putin people mostly go this way, why they would do anything else. If you're "patriotic" (in that special putin's sense) you wouldn't prefer services provided by foreigners over those available locally in Russia.

Who do use your (or other registrars like you) services are those who don't want to enable putin's secret police to shut down their sites. In fact I doubt you can find a single pro-putin russian among your customers. Those pro-putin brain-washed "patriots" mostly don't speak English and (heh, yes) don't fully understand what is DNS how the domain names work.

The people you strike at -- your customers from Russia -- are mostly those who protest against the war and get arrested by putin's police. And as of now, with all the sanctioning mess, many of them have difficulties with their bank cards, and those who only have their bank accounts in the local currency, also have to pay the transfer fees at horrifying conversion rates.

Great shot guys.

Fortunately enough, I left your services and went to another registrar several years ago.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#983
I do not doubt that many Russian citizens are appalled by the actions of their government, and certainly resisting or protesting is risky for them and incurs significant penalties. But these penalties are not remotely comparable to what is being inflicted on innocent Ukrainians. This is a situation that has resulted from 20 years of inaction and acquiescence during which an increasingly thuggish Putin and his cronies have gotten rich and been emboldened. The only solution now is for Russians themselves to change things - they need to get behind Navalny or some other opposition leader and force a change and, sorry if this is going to be costly for some of them, but those Russians complaining really need to find their balls, like Navalny, Nemtsov and others and deal with their problem. Nobody else can do this.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#984
I have been a Namecheap customer for over 10 years and use them for my business websites. I will be moving away from them. I do not support Russia because I am vehemently anti-war, especially after what I've seen my own country do to countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. However, I cannot support a business that will target and cancel customer based on their race or ethnicity. Who knows who will be the next group that is targeted and canceled.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#985

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

#986

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…

What an awful thing to do to people who are probably under high loads of stress already.

You have a responsibility as a key part of the internets infrastructure that goes beyond your politicial viewpoints. The fact that you think your personal viewpoints should override these responsibilities just shows the unadulterated arrogance the world has come to expect from Americans.

Well done pushing Russian people further into the censorship, controlled hole and making this regimes control worse, whilst also betraying the standards of the open internet.

I've initiated transfer of my personal domains (not a Russian, out of choice), and will remove all work domains shortly. I'll also be advising non technical friends and clients to move away, due to untrustworthy business practices.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#987
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…

All of this also applies to the sanctions making the ruble and Russian stock market crumble. It's a piece of a larger whole.

Keep explaining to the Russian person why these actions impacting their life are good.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#988

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…

Thank you. I haven't used Namecheap in the past, but I will consider it in the future. I hope more western companies that care about the rule of law follow suit.

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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#989
post #890

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…

You are a private company and you can do whatever you want as long as your country's law allows you to do so. That being said: - Did you block US citizens from using Namecheap when the US invaded other countries and killed civilians? - Did you block the US from using Namecheap when the US left Afghanistan without evacuating the people there who are in constant danger of being murdered by the Taliban? - Did you block…

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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#990

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…

Hello. Really sorry to hear but I understand your decision. Please let me know if my case is eligible. I've have Ukrainian but frankly the Russian passport holder. I've have not been living in Russia for over 4 years, I'm not a resident or tax payer.The 37 year-like situation in Russia was one of the reasons of immigration and all the domains are not even closely related to Russia.I'm currently in another country in…

When a citizen becomes _passport holder_.
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