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Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by NamecheapCEO »

atlantas wrote: post #77
NamecheapCEO wrote: post #42

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…

Should Chinese residents be concerned?

We've never focused any of our business in China with intention. I didn't want our company to acquise and sell it's soul to do business there so we purposely avoided it all these years. We may have some customers there but not very many that I am aware of.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by NamecheapCEO »

exizt88 wrote: post #85
tguvot wrote: post #40

Given that Russian vodka is blacklisted from stores in USA (and Finland!) and replaced with message "we stand with Ukraine", it's not really surprising. I read interview with somebody from Russia yesterday, russian tracks getting their tires punctured in EU and get stuck because credit cards don't work anymore. Ships refuse to offload goods in Russian ports and drop them of "wherever in Europe". Russian companies can…

I don't understand how "collateral damage" is relevant. Aren't people supposed to minimize collateral damage? Namecheap didn't HAVE to do this. The chose to do this in a very particular way, which hurt its customers, especially those opposing Putin's regime and currently fleeing the country.

I'd be open to making exceptions in cases that are anti-regime.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by gruez »

raxi wrote: post #83
rmnc wrote: post #55

This is really wrong. I'm a Russian national, and I'm not supporting aggression towards Ukraine. In contrast, I've spent last two days in police after being detained due to the fact that I dared to express my condemnation in public protest. I am not my government, and apart from starting a one-man revolution with a pretty obvious result, I'm doing everything I can to raise awareness, condemn actions of Russian govern…

> your company has a lot of Ukrainian employees That raises a question: how to find a domain registar without a lot of Ukrainian employees ? According to the recent leak, Epik has them a lot as well. Could we crowdsource such a list of registrars sorted by nationality of their employees to be prepared to the geo risks?

>Could we crowdsource such a list of registrars sorted by nationality of their employees to be prepared to the geo risks?

People here are suggesting nic.ru, which I presume would have a pretty low risk of getting kicked off.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by MysticKnight »

fmcoder wrote: post #35
powerslacker wrote: post #31

Are there any official sources for this? I did a quick google search and couldn't find any announcements.

Namecheap sent this email to Russian customers.

That seems logical however I also got the email and I'm British, with zero links to Russia, no russian tlds/hosting, absolutely nothing, all my domains registered in England.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by NicoJuicy »

MysticKnight wrote: post #84

I also got this email. How will this affect me? I dont have any Russian domains/tlds, nor am I in Russia and never have been. I'm in England, born here and have lived here my whole life? The only domains I have are ".xyz" , ".cam", ".pw" tlds. My hosting is from Hetzner in Germany. I have zero links to Russia. The email says in bold "If you hold any top-level domains with us, we ask that you transfer them to another…

Response of namecheap CEO to a similar issue:

> You'll be fine, please contact us and we'll get you whitelisted. Point here if any confusion with our support team.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by literal_me »

Received the same email. I'm based in Lithuania and I have a Russian first name. No Russian addresses, IPs, billing info etc (because I have never been there!). How do you even select people to target with this? It's past midnight, I'm trying to figure out my options here. How exactly do the Euros I pay you from EU contribute to the Russian aggression?

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by NamecheapCEO »

nic9999 wrote: post #48
NamecheapCEO wrote: post #42

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…

Who will return our money?

You'll get refunded on any time you have left on that service. (hosting, email)

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by sauwan »

exizt88 wrote: post #65
NamecheapCEO wrote: post #42

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…

> People that are getting angry need to point that at the cause, their own government. Believe me, I'm very angry at my government. Unlike you, I've been protesting the regime for several years, putting my health and well-being at risk. I've donated thousands of dollars to anti-regime organizations. And I'm currently in the process of fleeing the country because of this. So I'm also very angry at you, for screwing me…

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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by playspeed »

NamecheapCEO wrote: post #72
asats wrote: post #7

Not living in Russia (moved because of the government oppression) apparently is not sufficient to not be hit by this ban, just having any russia-related information gets you kicked out looks like. Really great move by them.

If you are no longer based there and are not contributing to the regime in any way via taxes/duties we can whitelist you.

I’m not in Russia last 15 years, could you white list me, please? My Namecheap id is playspeed. I’m anti wars, and anti corruption, anti thug supporter. I wish no conflict had had started. Thanks. Wish you, guys, safety.
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