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Re: Becoming Remotive.com

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Post by someotherperson »

nojs wrote: post #41
someotherperson wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a criminal outfit masquerading as a domain registrar. They go out of their way to protect blackhats using their services, refusing to adhere to their ICANN requirements of blocking users or domains registered through Namecheap that carry out major scale phishing and fraud. So much so that, with blackhats, it's the domain registrar of choice. Stolen credit card? No problem. SMS scams? Sounds good! Do a WHOIS the…

As a non criminal, this is a major selling point for me. I for one do not want to lose my entire business because I offended someone or failed to moderate a comment or whatever. And it’s smart business for them too - stay out of the censorship game as long as you can, because you can never win.

Yes of course until the CEO popped up and unilaterally banned all of Russia[0]. Or when they banned a crypto related domain on a single tweet[1] then unbanned it when people said WTF [2].

Blocking actual exploitative malware is a legal obligation, not "censorship." If they had a TOS that says "do whatever you want" then sure, but in this case they're just violating their TOS too.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812

[1] https://twitter.com/Namecheap/status/1489485337885921284

[2] https://twitter.com/Namecheap/status/1489504958596714499

Re: Becoming Remotive.com

#52

Post by someotherperson »

ghusto wrote: post #49
someotherperson wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a criminal outfit masquerading as a domain registrar. They go out of their way to protect blackhats using their services, refusing to adhere to their ICANN requirements of blocking users or domains registered through Namecheap that carry out major scale phishing and fraud. So much so that, with blackhats, it's the domain registrar of choice. Stolen credit card? No problem. SMS scams? Sounds good! Do a WHOIS the…

> ... It's a criminal outfit ... Refusing to police does not mean "they go out of their way to protect blackhats", it means they sell domains and know their place.

Refusing to adhere to your TOS, ICANN guidelines and legal obligations by turning a blind eye to international crime rings isn't knowing your place, it's exploitation and has horrible ethics regardless of how it can be perceived.

Knowingly taking money from criminals, likely stolen, is almost certainly a criminal offence.

Re: Becoming Remotive.com

#53

Post by 0des »

someotherperson wrote: post #38
tboerstad wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is wrong with Namecheap?

It's a criminal outfit masquerading as a domain registrar. They go out of their way to protect blackhats using their services, refusing to adhere to their ICANN requirements of blocking users or domains registered through Namecheap that carry out major scale phishing and fraud. So much so that, with blackhats, it's the domain registrar of choice. Stolen credit card? No problem. SMS scams? Sounds good! Do a WHOIS the…

Sounds like added value to me

Re: Becoming Remotive.com

#54

Post by 0des »

someotherperson wrote: post #51
nojs wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a non criminal, this is a major selling point for me. I for one do not want to lose my entire business because I offended someone or failed to moderate a comment or whatever. And it’s smart business for them too - stay out of the censorship game as long as you can, because you can never win.

Yes of course until the CEO popped up and unilaterally banned all of Russia[0]. Or when they banned a crypto related domain on a single tweet[1] then unbanned it when people said WTF [2]. Blocking actual exploitative malware is a legal obligation, not "censorship." If they had a TOS that says "do whatever you want" then sure, but in this case they're just violating their TOS too. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

You realize a lot of their staff is pretty much next door to that conflict geographically right?

Re: Becoming Remotive.com

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Post by 0des »

someotherperson wrote: post #52
ghusto wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ... It's a criminal outfit ... Refusing to police does not mean "they go out of their way to protect blackhats", it means they sell domains and know their place.

Refusing to adhere to your TOS, ICANN guidelines and legal obligations by turning a blind eye to international crime rings isn't knowing your place, it's exploitation and has horrible ethics regardless of how it can be perceived. Knowingly taking money from criminals, likely stolen, is almost certainly a criminal offence.

Just because they don't immediately cancel people you have issue with doesn't make them a criminal org. You should check out about libel because this is getting close.

Re: Becoming Remotive.com

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Post by 0des »

dubcanada wrote: post #45
sen wrote: post #15

It’s just not that hard to come up with a unique name that still has an available .com, I do it regularly for clients and have done for 20 odd years. Yes it’s gotten harder, but it’s still absolutely possible. Even short (sub-10 char) pronounceable names are still available if you just spend some time looking. There’s NO reason to pay 5 figures for a .com unless you can drop that amount of money without even thinking…

Not that hard huh? If you don’t mind me asking what was the last one you came up with?

Zx884hs.com, so hot right now.

Re: Becoming Remotive.com

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Post by 0des »

jrockway wrote: post #39
Lurkynerd wrote: post #37

This is a "cool factor" splurge. Spending ~100k cash for a bootstrapped startup on something rather superficial is enough to question their future decision making. To me this shows a bit of immaturity and irresponsibility. What future shinny objects will they splurge on instead of focusing on investments that have more substance?

I wouldn't spend this kind of money on a domain name, but I guess you have to ask what else you'd use the cash for. 6 months of software development? When put like that, it's not clear to me that this is a bad idea. You can write a lot of code without attracting any customers.

> You can write a lot of code without attracting any customers.

Why did you have to bring me into this

Re: Becoming Remotive.com

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Post by [deleted] »

ChrisRR wrote: post #31
rootlocus wrote: post #25

Is there a legitimate reason why a .com TLd would increase the business value over .io?

Because outside of the tech industry, not many people know about the .io TLD. If you have a company, I think it's natural that many people's first thought would be to go to .com (if they don't google it) If someone saw that .com doesn't exist, they might think your company doesn't exist or is a scam

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Re: Becoming Remotive.com

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Post by number6 »

usrbinbash wrote: post #8
lbriner wrote: post #6

I thought ICANN can forcibly transfer a domain that is not being used to another entity who can prove a legitimate need for it? That was supposed to end a lot of domain squatting, especially since web addresses are kind of crucial to modern companies and in the wild west of the internet, anyone can setup e.g. cocacola.org or something and start trying to steal your customers.

> that is not being used How will that be defined? It's not difficult to put up a small website. And just like that, the page is now used.

Or just have a mx record. It's legit usage of a domain. You don't even need a website.

Re: Becoming Remotive.com

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Post by ghusto »

someotherperson wrote: post #52
ghusto wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ... It's a criminal outfit ... Refusing to police does not mean "they go out of their way to protect blackhats", it means they sell domains and know their place.

Refusing to adhere to your TOS, ICANN guidelines and legal obligations by turning a blind eye to international crime rings isn't knowing your place, it's exploitation and has horrible ethics regardless of how it can be perceived. Knowingly taking money from criminals, likely stolen, is almost certainly a criminal offence.

I'm sure if you were to provide them with evidence of your allegations they would take actions appropriate to their obligations. What you want them to do is that work _for_ you, which they are not obliged to do, as far as I know.
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