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Namecheap terminating all services for Russian residents
Russia service termination
Dear xxx,Unfortunately, due to the Russian regime's war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine, we will no longer be providing services to users registered in Russia. While we sympathize that this war may not affect your own views or opinion on the matter, the fact is, your authoritarian government is committing human rights abuses and engaging in war crimes so this is a policy decision we have made and will stand by.
If you hold any top-level domains with us, we ask that you transfer them to another provider by March 6, 2022.
Additionally, and with immediate effect, you will no longer be able to use Namecheap Hosting, EasyWP, and Private Email with a domain provided by another registrar in zones .ru, .xn--p1ai (рф), .by, .xn--90ais (бел), and .su. All websites will resolve to 403 Forbidden, however, you can contact us to assist you with your transfer to another provider.
Customer Support,
Namecheap
Comments
Kind of a dick move if you ask me.
But then, given their Ukraine connection, not too surprising.
Should it be
Respect to Namecheap.
Amazing move towards Ukrainians living in Russia for a myriad of reasons. Just to add to their suffering. Not even speaking about Russians who hate the old dictator and are anti-war. I hope namecheap at least feels good about themselves now
You're back! Wow! How are you?
They felt the need to do something, it is understandable. But one should also understand that there's very little support for the current Ukraine events among the general Russian population, not to mention among the younger and tech-savvy audience who are likely to be using services of a western domain registrar on the Internet in the first place.
Holy mother ducking God.
Welcome back.
To be fair, they probably can't accept payments from Russians anyway as the world cuts Russia from the normal methods of payment so I think it is inevitable.
Only a few of the largest banks have been sanctioned so far, Visa and MasterCard issued by others still work abroad and on the Internet without any problem.
Also, they accept Bitcoin: https://www.namecheap.com/support/payment/bitcoin/
It sounds like one can transfer one's domain to another registrar.
Smiling now because it feels good I'm remembered by my dear internet pals
I appreciate this very much.
When the world needed him the least, Yura came back! lol. Thanks, deank, it's good to be here. I hope you guys are all doing well. especially in these trying times.
Love and peace to everyone ✌️
Thanks Yulio. Nice song there
I think that especially @Janevski missed you
Oh shit, I forgot about our date. I should buy flowers or something, I hope he will forgive me being a bit late.
Love is patient
Do you seriously think the war crimes should go unnoticed by the world? You're like the teachers that intervene only when bullied kid fights back.
Yeah, Russians didn't choose to be cut from Namecheap, but neither Ukrainian civilians choose to be ambushed by Russians.
So, all Russians must be punished? Did they even do the crimes? You are the kind of people who'd support a genocide.
Holy shit its Yura.
This is a stupid move, this won't hurt the Russian government, and I'm sure the majority of people with web services in Russia hosting them on Namecheap don't align with their authoritarian president.
I have worked with a few Russians and Ukrainians for development work, and have many clients from both countries, and they are all and have always been great people. Namecheap would have been better off giving free billing extensions to all Ukrainian clients to alleviate any concern about payment for the next few months, and donating to support the Ukrainian government & army, and support humanitarian work. All three of which I've done and recommend any businesses do that support UA.
Edit: I'm sure Namecheap has donated quite a bit, since they refer you to it on their website.
You are speaking too much sense now. Under martial law you deserve a capital spanking
I'm confused (what's new?). Just the other day someone was worried because Namecheap was Russia based, now it's Ukraine based?
@deank was right all along! The end is Nigh.
Only if your last name is Zelenskyy
Namecheap is a U.S. company and I think the majority of their support is based in UA.
Edit: According to a few sources including their website, about 90% of their support is based in Lviv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv Ukraine. Kharkiv which is most of the concern.
They clearly ran the numbers and it probably isn't going to cost them much.
I don't like the idea of booting random Russian citizens off of services because of a decision they had no say in. They could've just as easily virtue signalled by enforcing the names on sanctions lists or limit it to domains registered to a RU business.
There are cheaper options out there anyways for most extensions - like Porkbun, Sav.com, etc.
Yeah, some Russian customers have updated their sites to say they are against the war, and so many of them are supporting Ukraine in that way. But if web hosts are going to shut down those sites...
If this leads to WW3, the end will be here. Or at least all the post-apocalypse stories we've read will probably become a reality.
No more low end stuff.
@deank You jinxed the Planet. You kept saying it and now the end is nigh.
You're right, but I think the huge asterisk being "so far". I was genuinely surprised when they actually ramped it up to a partial SWIFT ban. Who knows what's going to happen in the future
I think this decision was definitely framed very poorly. They could've just said that sanctions make doing business harder in Russia and left it at that.
Duly noted. And: effective immediately Namecheap is a no-go.
Not because of Russia but because I've had enough of companies playing politics basically for the purpose of virtue signalling. Plus they are not even punishing the government but rather normal innocent people. F_ck Namecheap!