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Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by dang »

risyachka wrote: post #184

I will respond to this one. It's good that you tried to fight the regime. Clearly it wasn't enough. You live in society, not in the woods. The majority decides how all live - like in any other country. In your country majority decided not to overthrow dictatorship. As result, minority suffers. So here is your answer.

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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by bitcharmer »

Thank you for standing against barbarism

A lot of immature crybabies here who think it somehow compares being mildly inconvenienced and bombed in your sleep.

Russians have a very long way to go if this is still their attitude in the face of everything their regime is doing. Well, as a Pole whose family was kidnapped and let to die in Syberia this nation definitely has a lot to learn when it comes to taking responsibility.

I'm moving all my domains to Namecheap.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by awb »

hereforphone wrote: post #133

If they're willing to terminate service for political reasons in this case, who's to say they won't do it in the future for other political reasons? Here begins the slippery slope of Namecheap terminating service to those it deems "wrong". Been a happy, confident Namecheap user for a long time. Now I'm not so confident.

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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by rganeyev »

clusterfish wrote: post #689
rganeyev wrote: post #291

I am a Russian citizen from birth who permanently lives and works in the UK. I do not support Russian regime in any way and offered my help with relocation to Russian and Ukrainian citizens from the start - see my post in LinkedIn. On namecheap I hold non-ru related domain paid till February 2023. So what the heck they are blaming me for being Russian and terminating the contract without any agreement?

You should email their support. I don't think they actually want to terminate your particular account, I think they only want to target people and companies who are actually in Russia (so they looked for Russian addresses and payment methods on file). Their communication on this issue was terrible in many ways, but honestly I can't blame a company who's literally being shelled today for missing the mark once.

> so they looked for Russian addresses and payment methods on file

That’s wrong as both statements are false for me. They just simply queried the citizenship field on registration, I assume.

I’ve already contacted to their support, but meanwhile I am looking for the provider who respects my privacy as well as doesn’t give a shit about the nationality, skin color, religion etc.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by rganeyev »

clusterfish wrote: post #689
rganeyev wrote: post #291

I am a Russian citizen from birth who permanently lives and works in the UK. I do not support Russian regime in any way and offered my help with relocation to Russian and Ukrainian citizens from the start - see my post in LinkedIn. On namecheap I hold non-ru related domain paid till February 2023. So what the heck they are blaming me for being Russian and terminating the contract without any agreement?

You should email their support. I don't think they actually want to terminate your particular account, I think they only want to target people and companies who are actually in Russia (so they looked for Russian addresses and payment methods on file). Their communication on this issue was terrible in many ways, but honestly I can't blame a company who's literally being shelled today for missing the mark once.

And even if I lived in Russia, why would the private company would terminate the contract? Just because they wanted to? They just ruined their reputation and I wonder if it is a matter of discrimination and a reason for the lawsuit?

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by nojonestownpls »

Alternative services mentioned in this thread (I'm merely collecting them to one place, can't vouch for any of their future neutrality or lack thereof):

* Cloudflare

* Gandi

* Njal.la

* nic.ru (apparently the Russian state-owned registrar)

* "It's time to decentralize." https://ens.domains https://ipfs.io/

* ~~Tucows~~ see below

* Hover.com

Please add any other that you know of that you have reason to believe would remain geopolitically neutral and reliable.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by TobyTheDog123 »

e-clinton wrote: post #533
firekvz wrote: post #244

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…

Let me know how many domains you’re transferring out of Namecheap so that I can transfer that many back in. For everyone upset about this decision, there will be 100s who applaud it.

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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by slavicpeople »

What was required to prove - the ukranian are nazis, the nazis that as in ww2 discriminated by nation and now fascism is flourishing in Ukraine, the world will not forget the genocide that you have set up in Donbass. Just google the children of Donbass and you will find facts and pictures of these Nazis smiling in front of bombs with captions All for Children. Fuk Ukraine, fuk usa
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