As a US based Namecheap customer for over 5 years, that supports Ukraine, I will be moving somewhere else, this in my opinion is not a way to do business. Internet needs to remain free. I live in NY and Namecheap is in Arizona, will I get banned one day when Namecheap disagrees with an action by the NY government?
Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
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#932We 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…
As a US based customer I will move away from you. You are potentially shutting down voices in Russia. Maybe an anti-putin blogger will just give up blogging because of this. You are destroying what remains of the free internet of the 90s.
And just to make it clear, I 100% agree with sanctions against Russia such as even shutting down things like Google Pay. Your action here is just dumb and not well thought.
Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#933This is essentially a non-governmental sanction that is severely lacking any moral basis.
If you would be directly targeting the domains of the Russian administration itself, or its main beneficiaries (oligarchs) you might have a point, but those are not typical namecheap customers I imagine.
So those affected are small businesses and citizens where you assume some type of guilt or complacency simply based on them being Russian. Because indirectly they are contributing tax revenue to the regime.
That's a really low bar. If we would extend that logic and consistently apply it, Russians should be banned from healthcare and food too.
Further, the idea that all this added sanction pressure will get citizens to rise up against the regime is quite an arrogant one to make. As if risking your life to rise up is the least one can do. The pile of sanctions may even worsen the outcome and make Putin even more motivated.
I think it's a reckless, emotional, ad hoc move.
Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#934An American company punishing citizens for their country's crimes is the most stupid, naïve and self righteous thing I've ever seem.
Go ahead and to the same to the rest of clients who are citizens of war criminal countries.
Good luck with the 15 remaining users.
Taking my shit out of Namecheap too.
Brazilian citizen here.
Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#935An American company punishing citizens for their country's crimes is the most stupid, naïve and self righteous thing I've ever seem. Go ahead and to the same to the rest of clients who are citizens of war criminal countries. Good luck with the 15 remaining users. Taking my shit out of Namecheap too. Brazilian citizen here.
Most staff and engineers are Ukrainian and are getting shelled by the country your officials openly support. Read the reply from Namecheap's CEO.
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#936Next step: Send all Russian employees home to fight against the regime.
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#937I was surprised by this, until I realized that one of Namecheap's offices is in downtown Kharkiv. Today, the Russian military bombed Kharkiv with cluster munitions [1]. Civilians were killed, possibly including children [2]. Given the severity of the situation, I'm surprised that Namecheap has not opted for more drastic measures- for example, redirecting Russian web traffic. Simply transferring Russian businesses to…
> the Russian military bombed Kharkiv with cluster munitions That's a war crime, right? I hope that the field commanders who carried out these orders are brought to justice.
> That's a war crime, right?
There are videos of Russian troops killing unarmed Ukrainian civilians online, war crimes are committed since day 1
Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#938It may interest you to know that Namecheap, just a few days ago, banned a few domain names purely based on an ambiguous tweet that got 8 likes , that didn't even ask for those domains to be banned or cite any ToS violation. https://twitter.com/Namecheap/status/1489485337885921284 Namecheap then reverted that decision when they got ratioed (with no tweets supporting their decision). I've never heard of these domain na…
I am moving my domains off NameCheap too. This is ridiculous behaviour from a for-profit organisation; the only transaction I am interested in with Namecheap is I give you money and you act as the middle man in registering my domain. Spare me the political and social grandstanding. I am not interested in your views on either topic.
What happened to "business owners have the right to refuse service or turn away customers" ?
> Spare me the political and social grandstanding. I am not interested in your views on either topic.
Like it or not everything is politcal
Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
#939Let me prefix this by saying I'm not Russian, I have no ties to Russia whatsoever and I strongly oppose Putin's actions in Ukraine. That said, I wonder about the legal ramifications of this move. Namecheap is essentially unilaterally terminating a (probably yearly) contract without the other party being at fault per se. There's no legal cause. Will they be refunding the customers they are kicking out? Or will they be…
> Namecheap is essentially unilaterally terminating a (probably yearly) contract
Russians are essentially terminating Ukrainians citizens
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#940I paid for a domain with you for a year. Transferred to another registrar, and the money stayed with you. Can I consider that you just stole my money? Covering yourself with beautiful slogans? All of us here are against the war, but you are acting like marauders.