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Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
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Re: Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only problem with this is that having such a complex function as a non-core business unit makes it ripe to get rid of, or try to find a way to make it a profit center. Cloudflare, for example, removed the ability to change the nameservers for all domains registered with them. Google got tired of being in the business and sold it to Squarespace. Being a domain registrar is a total PITA and is not for the faint of…
> Cloudflare, for example, removed the ability to change the nameservers for all domains registered with them. Cloudflare never offered that ability. From the time they started offering domain registrations, it was always with the caveat that the nameservers would be fixed to Cloudflare's.
Correct, I guess I should have clarified that I mean they removed the ability that most registrars have, in an attempt to make domains into a revenue driver for their primary product.
Re: Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lack of a negative is the least compelling anecdote possible.
How about 16 years of lacking a negative? Does that count? How about never heard of any issues till this unverified, anonymous thread. Shouldn't that make one suspicious of it? Does that count?
I don't understand where the anger is coming from. No, of course it's not as valid as positives (i.e. "I experienced X" vs "I never experienced X"). See also: "Works on my machine."
I used Namecheap since 2011. This year, they lost me. The only difference between you and me is one bad experience.
Re: Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
#124I stopped trusting Namecheap when they shunted all Russian users due to the Ukraine war. While it wasn't against ICANN regulations (since they did facilitate transfers out), it seemed against the spirit to me for them to do that to individual people and small businesses who weren't legally sanctioned. I kept a couple of domains on them for a while simply because their prices for some exotic TLD's were significantly l…
Yes, and also this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581
Re: Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
#125I have important domains on Namecheap. Should I move them to Porkbun or Cloudflare? I only buy cheap, throwaway-type domains with Cloudflare, as I find them too corporate-like to support me for my cheap $10 domain, and that's why I kept good ones with Namecheap despite their 2x pricing. I want to work with an American company with real support. (But not with godaddy of course).
If you ignore this thread, did you even consider it before now? I've been with Namecheap for at least 16 years but this is the first I've read of complaints and never had any complaints myself. Which should make one question this whole thing altogether.
I believe you did not see this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581
Re: Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
#126Ah namecheap. Stories about them make it to HN quite regularly: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
This is the scariest https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581
Re: Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
#127I’m not moving my business domains to a small business called Porkbun.
Re: Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you ignore this thread, did you even consider it before now? I've been with Namecheap for at least 16 years but this is the first I've read of complaints and never had any complaints myself. Which should make one question this whole thing altogether.
I believe you did not see this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581
So now you need to dig into another anonymous post from over four years ago with no details of what happened?
Re: Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
#129I stopped trusting Namecheap when they shunted all Russian users due to the Ukraine war. While it wasn't against ICANN regulations (since they did facilitate transfers out), it seemed against the spirit to me for them to do that to individual people and small businesses who weren't legally sanctioned. I kept a couple of domains on them for a while simply because their prices for some exotic TLD's were significantly l…
I also didn’t like that, said as much, and had a bunch of people downvote me because I said I didn’t want my utility company playing politics.
Re: Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Link is just payments processing done by Stripe. https://stripe.com/payments/link If you've bought anything online recently, especially if it's not obvious who's collecting the payment details or it looks like first party on the checkout page, you've probably used Stripe.
But in those cases you don't have to sign up for it, or create an account with SMS verification. That should be totally unacceptable. Imagine going to a grocery store and when you want to buy your pack of soda and chips, they tell you: Woah there, pardner! You need an account with MyPaymentProvider before you pay for those groceries! Oh, and you'll need to set up a password and give them your mobile number...
Yeah, I don't love it. Forcing phone numbers is the worst, as I've practically never needed to call or be called about a purchase, but it's a de facto ID.