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What a horrifying policy. This may be tone-deaf as Namecheap has many Ukrainian employees, but this policy is antithetical to customer needs in an infrastructure company. The US has a history entering conflicts i fervently disagree with. Wars and smaller, more targeted attacks. The idea that my business's production infrastructure could be at risk because some POTUS drone strikes the wrong wedding is exactly the sort…
It's not at all a stretch to imagine that some of this infrastructure is being used to provide political and social support to Ukrainian positions and/or to assail Russian positions. Some of that support most certainly comes from within Russia.
Namecheap is not a gaming site: you chose to run infrastructure and when you run infrastructure you must run it as if lives depend on it. There is no way you can know what chains of dependency and support rely on you and there is no way you can know if the eventual beneficiaries of those chains are good or bad actors.
If you see an account behaving badly, remove it without collateral damage.
Otherwise, keep the lights on and keep doing your boring job.
As a non-russia customer, I am inmediatly moving all of my domains I host at namecheap to another provider. this kind of stuff from private companies are useless, and downvote me all you want, they do not work, and dont come to lecture me from your SF desk while im living in a sanctioned country, how did the 2017-2019 sactions for Venezuela worked? Everyone in the world moved on and even forgot about our country, and…
They have employees in Kharkiv. If I had employees in a city being bombed out, I'd probably stop doing business with/within the entity doing the bombing, too. It's not a PR move. If my arm is being injured, I move to protect it. I'm sure you would, too.
It's not like they can choose their government.
Namecheaps own government is still drone bombing people and invading whom ever they want. Should we ban American citizens from foreign services?
No. Just ban anything related to the government, not normal people.
I have Russians at my company, should I fire them because of their ethnicity? Clearly not, that's discrimination at least in my country (applied to companies as well)
I'll be moving my 50 domains from namecheap to a less politically motivated company.
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…
I'm no fan of Putin or the Russian government's war, but I originally moved to Namecheap from GoDaddy over GoDaddy's support for SOPA. I want my registrar to be a registrar, not a political entity. Looks like I'll be looking for a new registrar to do business with going forward. The Russian government are the bad guys here - people who happen to be in Russia are not. I'm not gonna do business with a company that gutp…
The Russian government does not exist in a bubble, it can only function with the functioning of the Russian economy. Russian individuals are gutpunched by every sanction, the families of Russian soldiers by every death. If you don't want consequences for your citizens, don't go to war to enact consequences on other countries' citizens. > for political points. I do not think you understand the true motivation
This kind of reasoning is derived from a representative democracy where the citizens elect a government to look after their best interests. Consequently, the government's ability to stay in power depends on public consensus and approval.
By most indications, Russia seems to be ... not that.
This is an absolutely pathetic showing that has destroyed a decade of trust in a couple of hours (I bought my first domain from Namecheap in 2012)
As this is now the kind of behavior we can expect of Namecheap, I do not trust them to do the right thing when it comes to upholding their other values (such as the one they mentioned, free speech). This is a CEO who is letting their (justified) emotions make crucial business decisions that do nothing but decay trust.
Epik is jumping for joy right now.
Received the same. Such a shitty move. Moving some left over from them to nic.ru Why not ban every single US and NATO country users for the slaughter of many countries including but not limited to Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, Yemen, Libya... because of the actions of their government? Fuck this mentality that makes the life of ordinary people harder and call it "sympathy".
I guess there are certain benefits when you are the only superpower in a uni-polar world.