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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by gcj »

PartiallyTyped wrote: post #935
gcj wrote: post #934

An 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.

I read it, can't see how the Russian population is to blame. And I to be blamed for the fascist my fellow Brazilians put in power? Are regular American citizens to be blamed and punished for their leaders war crimes?

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by olegious »

I'm a Russian American living in the US, with family in both Russia and Ukraine. I spend hundreds of dollars a year on your services. I'm transferring my domains away from Namecheap due to this policy.

The sanctions and these types of actions don't hurt the Putin regime, they hurt individual Russians that are by a wide margin against this war and are being arrested by the thousands in daily protests.

Furthermore they ignore the geopolitical realities that underpin this war- there are no good guys here other than the civilians in Ukraine and Russia but plenty of bad guys in leadership in Russia, US and Ukraine itself that are responsible for this conflict festering for the last 20 years.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by HexbearShill »

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…

Personally I fully support this sort of action. Governments think they can just commit atrocities and get away with it without business owners having any moral duty to intervene in any way they can. In fact, I would support adding more countries to your list, like the United States

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by rganeyev »

grumple wrote: post #925
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?

> So what the heck they are blaming me for being Russian and terminating the contract without any agreement? This is how economic sanctions work. You hit the nation economically to put pressure on the politicians. In any case people are at least in part responsible for their governments. If you have an issue with it, join protests against Putin, do things to stop him from committing murder and war crimes. In the mean…

For the record, it is not a sanction, it's a choice for the private company. And I don't have an issue with it at all, I know that I will never use their services ever again, as they ruined their reputation in one day.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by spiralx »

cheeze wrote: post #848
hamaluik wrote: post #276

I am frankly shocked and dismayed at the number of people deriding this decision. In a grey world this seems like such a black and white thing. Sure it may inconvenience a few, but on the other hand innocents are being slaughtered. All the weight of these complaints don't even begin to touch the scale when compared to literal children being murdered. Besides all that, Namecheap is a private company and can do busines…

Yeah, but this is HN. A weirdly libertarian group full of COVID deniers, people who think that it originated in a Wuhan lab, and those who care more about privacy than _literally anything else_ HN people are not normal. I generally ignore it on things like this, seems like the crazies come out in force.

This site really does largely veer between Republican and Libertarian depending on the topic, anything involving COVID, 'cancel culture' or 'woke'-ness is a shitshow of ideological talking points that I don't remember being prevalent when I first started reading four or so years ago. It used to have a noticeable techno-libertarianism bent for sure, but you could still discuss the nuances of an issue.

It's worse than Slashdot was at its peak in the early 2000s when it was absolutely full of libertarians and anarcho-capitalists.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by SerLava »

NamecheapCEO wrote: post #187
symbix wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get that, and you're totally entitled to do this. And you're probably right that ends justify the means. And, probably, total damage will be worth it. But, in my insignificant personal case, I will be busy moving domains and paying for transfers instead of doing what I've been doing and spending money on what I've been spending it for the last 5 days, helping people detained and/or arrested for participating in ant…

Contact us, we'll make exceptions in cases like this. Thanks for what you are doing.

This whole debacle is just proof that Namecheap will make hasty, marketing-based decisions based on the whim of the CEO.

It's no longer a reliable platform, or rather it never was.

You're hurting a lot of people who are using foreign services because they want to limit their exposure to Putin's regime.

The Russian state doesn't use Namecheap. Do you really think the negatives could be outweighed by some positive here?

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by throwaway5848 »

jacktribe wrote: post #388

I am completely in support of this. Hopefully the Russian people understand that these types of measures are not taken because we are trying to exact revenge on them as a people. This is our way to motivate you, to encourage you to go out in major cities and protest by the millions. More so than any other profession, we in tech are often shielded from major events happening in the outside world (see pandemic). We nee…

Sure, you're free to fight for what you feel is right. In the meantime I transfered out 25 domains. I hope you cover those for me!

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by vadkou »

OK, I just spent $150 transferring domains to GoDaddy. Considering this was forced by Namecheap's actions, which are "definitely not deplatforming", I can surely expect reimbursement?

Ticket ID #CWL-599-95208

Also, what about getting money for domains paid in advance? I've had a domain paid until May 21, 2026, as I've trusted Namecheap (my oldest domain name with them was registered on Jun 30, 2015). Some domain zones I used for development purposes (cheap .cyou offer) cannot be transferred to reputable registrars like GoDaddy. What to do about those?

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