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Re: Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party

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Post by crossroadsguy »

danaris wrote: post #161
crossroadsguy wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think a middle ground could be to use a great "domain registrar" and be prepared to move to another one when the last one stopped being great or sold to someone not so very great. And so on. Luckily this doesn't happen every month, or every year.

The problem with that is, there's not necessarily a signal for "stopped being great or sold to someone not so very great" besides "they gave my domain away to a scammer because they asked."

There ares some. Their reaction to events, their ownership structure change, support culture change etc etc. There isn't a perfect way to find that out, but there are indications.

Re: Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party

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Post by apothegm »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #171
danaris wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with that is, there's not necessarily a signal for "stopped being great or sold to someone not so very great" besides "they gave my domain away to a scammer because they asked."

There ares some. Their reaction to events, their ownership structure change, support culture change etc etc. There isn't a perfect way to find that out, but there are indications.

Most of us don’t interact with our registrars often enough to notice changes in support culture, and who has time to be constantly checking for changes in their ownership, if that information is even available? If you’re spending that much energy on your registrar and your work isn’t as a domain trader, something’s wrong.

Re: Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party

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Post by happytoexplain »

dgudkov wrote: post #140
happytoexplain wrote: post #3

Just a few weeks ago I moved from Namecheap to Porkbun. That's not an advertisement - I simply Googled popular registrars. But it is an indictment of Namecheap. They are going the way of GoDaddy. Please move away from them immediately. They are shifting to short-term strategies (high prices, immoral data practices, etc). Edit: Apparently they were bought by private equity just weeks before I noticed something was wro…

What makes you think the same can't happen with Porkbun?

I never implied that. It seems unrelated to what I said.

Re: Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party

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Post by nkrisc »

paxys wrote: post #114
nkrisc wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In many countries that’s probably illegal, even if it’s easy. Just because a crime is easy to commit doesn’t mean it isn’t a crime. So, keep it hypothetical.

I can’t think of a jurisdiction where it would not be illegal. The “I was only testing your security, in fact I should get rewarded for it” defense never works outside of nerd fantasies.

I agree, it’s likely illegal in any modern state with rule of law. But I don’t actually know that for sure.

Re: Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party

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Post by velcrohn »

Georgelemental wrote: post #49

I left Namecheap when they took away Databases for Palestine's domains for daring to publish evidence of the Gaza genocide. They do not deserve your business https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/01/03/namecheap-gaza...

Since you brought it up... The population of Gaza has been going up since 1948. Before Hamas attacked, tens of thousands of Gazans had work permits in Israel, and many Gazans were treated in Israeli hospitals.

After Hamas started a war, Israel provided food, power, water, fuel, and medicine with intermittent interruptions. They had ceasefires to provide vaccines for children. Israel warned civilians of imminent attacks, and generally gave them time to move. That rarely happens in a war, never mind a genocide.

It is absolutely true that tens of thousands of civilians were killed, although it is difficult to quantify because Hamas soldiers do not wear uniforms and has 100% of its military capabilities around and below hospitals, mosques, schools, and apartments. Also, Gazan authorities have never distinguished military and civilian casualties in their reporting. And despite having the world's largest bomb shelter, i.e. 500 km of tunnels, Hamas did not allow a single civilian into them during the war.

But stipulating tens of thousands of civilian deaths during an intense urban fighting, there is a name for that. The name for that is "war". Genocide is an entirely different phenomenon. You seem to conflate the two.

Re: Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party

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Post by dabber »

kibwen wrote: post #89
deadalus wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Porkbun. Yes, Cloudflare Domains exists but let's support the small guys.

It would be worth recommending a non-US-based registrar, since the Texas government just demonstrated that they can unilaterally suspend any domain managed by any US registrar.

Are you referring to what happened with motherless? If so, using a non-US-based registrar probably wouldn't have made a difference in that case. The court order that took the domain offline targeted the .com registry operated by Verisign, not any individual registrar.

Re: Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party

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Post by kstrauser »

ButlerianJihad wrote: post #170
kstrauser wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is bullshit. There are legal processes in place to decide disputes. Absent those processes, possession is ownership, and it would be absolute madness and chaos if it weren't. I could make pretty convincing letterhead "proving" that I own "Google Foods", but that doesn't mean a registrar should give me google.com. The correct process if I want to assert that is to sue for ownership and prove to a court that I'm t…

> legal processes in place Another hole in OP's story: when/how did they follow the legal dispute process, rather than just "shooting a couple emails" and creating a new HN account to complain about it?

Another hole in your premise: where is the indicator that the legal system was involved, as opposed to contacting the registrar’s tech support?
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