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Same here- I used to have all my domains on Namecheap until their CEO came on HN to announce that anybody who forced their parents to give birth to them in Russ

Same here- I used to have all my domains on Namecheap until their CEO came on HN to announce that anybody who forced their parents to give birth to them in Russia has exactly 1 week to transfer all their domains away somewhere else. I don't fall into that category, but this was so ignorant and insulting that I transferred away all my domains to Cloudflare and never looked back.

namechip 2y ago
Good, thank you for doing that. I see the peanut gallery is triggered by the R-word and is trying to silence you. Before pressing that down button, please familiarize yourself with the announcement and see how much problems it created for the already very troubled Russian opposition at the worst possible time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812 Fuck Namecheap. I'll be spreading the word around until I die. I have already costed them half a dozen potential clients who cared about my opinion enough to decide to look elsewhere.
- efilife 2y ago
  Of course this makes perfect sense. Why should people be responsible for actions of a dictator? I can't believe this comment is downvoted
  - ssweewe 2y ago
    [flagged]
seanw444 2y ago
Yeah as soon as I heard that news, I left Namecheap.
thegrim33 2y ago
Yep, same here. The second they decided to just drop all their customers with a specific nationality I immediately transferred everything I had elsewhere. Why choose to do business with a company like that when there's other companies they aren't doing things like that? Why choose to stay with a company where tomorrow your government could do something they disapprove of and they're now dropping you and now you're scrambling to rectify things?
- newsbinator 2y ago
  But you don't understand: what "your government" is doing is really bad. And a big part of Namecheap's team is the recipient of what "your government" is doing. And you paying taxes to "your government", or even at the grocery store as you live your nondescript life, is you implicitly supporting "your government" in doing those bad things. Therefore dropping you as a customer with almost zero notice is warranted (you monster). If you don't like it, then email our team and plead with us and justify yourself. Tell us you're one of the good ones. We might deign to give you a bit more time to pack your bags. (To sarcastically paraphrase the Namecheap CEO's statements here on HN.)
  - hulitu 2y ago
    > Tell us you're one of the good ones. I guess it depends on the definition of "good" which seems to be quiet volatile. /s
gukkey 2y ago
wondering whether namecheap is blocked rn on Israel

namechip 2y ago

Good, thank you for doing that. I see the peanut gallery is triggered by the R-word and is trying to silence you. Before pressing that down button, please familiarize yourself with the announcement and see how much problems it created for the already very troubled Russian opposition at the worst possible time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812 Fuck Namecheap. I'll be spreading the word around until I die. I have already costed them half a dozen potential clients who cared about my opinion enough to decide to look elsewhere.

efilife 2y ago
Of course this makes perfect sense. Why should people be responsible for actions of a dictator? I can't believe this comment is downvoted
- ssweewe 2y ago
  [flagged]

seanw444 2y ago

Yeah as soon as I heard that news, I left Namecheap.

thegrim33 2y ago

Yep, same here. The second they decided to just drop all their customers with a specific nationality I immediately transferred everything I had elsewhere. Why choose to do business with a company like that when there's other companies they aren't doing things like that? Why choose to stay with a company where tomorrow your government could do something they disapprove of and they're now dropping you and now you're scrambling to rectify things?

newsbinator 2y ago
But you don't understand: what "your government" is doing is really bad. And a big part of Namecheap's team is the recipient of what "your government" is doing. And you paying taxes to "your government", or even at the grocery store as you live your nondescript life, is you implicitly supporting "your government" in doing those bad things. Therefore dropping you as a customer with almost zero notice is warranted (you monster). If you don't like it, then email our team and plead with us and justify yourself. Tell us you're one of the good ones. We might deign to give you a bit more time to pack your bags. (To sarcastically paraphrase the Namecheap CEO's statements here on HN.)
- hulitu 2y ago
  > Tell us you're one of the good ones. I guess it depends on the definition of "good" which seems to be quiet volatile. /s

gukkey 2y ago

wondering whether namecheap is blocked rn on Israel