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Namecheap terminating all services for Russian residents
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No. The Ukranians were hitting their own buildings. What an A-hole...
I must say this is a childish Company.
Are they doing this for humanity or just for their ego / brotherhood their colleagues?
What happen to other war in other part of the world? Do they even care to look?
I'll move my domains from then too.
What a move Namecheap. Punishing citizens because you don't like their govt. Whats the difference between you and Russian govt who is attacking innocent citizens of Ukraine, the very thing you are condemning in the first place...
Believe it or not, there are reasons this could happen, both purposely and on accident. For example, hitting an evacuated building while recording from across the street for the PR. Not saying that's what happened, but shooting a single missile into a civilian building doesn't achieve much.
Say Goodbye to the Russia you knew. Put-in has been put-out! Let's see If he leaves because 'he got an illness', 'he accidentally died', or simply, the Generals took over. All this before the end of 2022
What if your prognosis turns out to be wrong? Will you change your view or will you just find new pretexts to attack president Putin, Russia, and, worst of all, the russian people?
Rest assured that president Putin is extremely unlikely to have any domains with Namecheap. Many ordinary russian people however might.
I frankly don't care much for Russia, or Ukraine for that matter. I couldn't care less if Russia annexes Ukraine or gets annexed by Ukraine. It has nothing to do with me and I'd prefer it stays that way.
I will adapt my view, unlike your views.
If Putin is as horrible of a person as the media makes him seem, I sure hope he didn't have any domains with Namecheap. For Namecheap's sake, lol.
I'm sure his domains are real countries, not DNS
You know people actually do things like that in war, right? With all of this publicity a government would gladly slaughter it's citizens if they could blame it on someone else in hopes of attracting allies. If you think there's a government out there which is too moral to do this, I would only be able to laugh. The moral values of the rich and powerful...lol
The only thing I know is that I'm only seeing what someone wants me to see, in the way they want me to see it. I trust no one anymore. There are no good guys anywhere. Just different criminals.
Respect to Namecheap, excellent move.
I heard hes in the process of acquiring ukraine.ru?
Looks like there's someone here without a blindfold on. That's quite refreshing.
The guilty party is the Putin government.
Every generation learns about war sooner or later. It's irritating to watch the Twitter generation learn about it. Just like every generation before, almost everyone trusts their state run media. Some say we don't have that in the US but all I see are media outlets that swallow anything the two parties ejaculate.
So... How do transfer locks work in situations like this, if anyone affected happened to have a domain that normally would not be eligible for transfer until after the deadline has passed? Can those locks be bypassed, or does the domain get stuck in some sort of limbo where it can't go but it can't stay either so then just vanishes into the void?
Although I'm not Russian, but sanctions against the people and athletes will only make people more resentful of them, if the US government is capable of doing so, please immediately increase sanctions against the Russian government， there is also FIFA, UEFA, IOC, etc.
war has always two sides , victor writes the narratives and make other party look bad while hiding its own war crimes . Like everybody will talk of how bad hitler is but conveniently forgets Bengal famine which is partly caused by Churchill where almost 3 million people killed .
It is a complete dick move by namecheap , I do not think putin and his govt has any domains in namecheap . It is common people suffering as always.There are many wars that are happening around the world , did they ban Israel , did they ban Palestine, did they ban USA when they invaded Iraq,Afghanistan ? Hopefully nobody buy from such company which is involved in any political wars .
Namecheap is a no-go provider for sure. The move is too childish. This time it bans RU, what about next time? TRUST is always the basis of all kinds of business, which is now blowed up.
All of the major news sources in the US are unreliable.
It doesn't matter if it's left like CNN or right like Fox.
There's no truly unbiased major news source in the United States that doesn't attempt to bend narratives to their favor.
That is how Hitler took Germany from a democracy to a dictatorship. And some believe how the US used 9-11 to take away individual freedoms and rights. And interestingly is plausible as a similar tactic to the possibility covid restriction measures could be used to further distract and remove freedoms.
It is indeed a common tactic. But usually it's more thought out than that. But definitely something to always consider.
Good point - people tend to think in binary, absolute yes and no. Nature however is almost always a grey area. Putin is not wrong that the US is gaining control over Russia, that there are separatist groups wanting to break up Ukraine, etc. And it really is similar to US attack measures into many countries.
The problem they have is the president of Ukraine knows how to lead and understands media, social interaction and cameras and the power of story telling. For the record, I'm 70% Ukraine, 30% Russia in terms of support values... But the one thing that is always certain, is there will be intentional misinformation on both sides at all times.
The answer is always the aggressor - in the eyes of international law (ianal) had they not attacked Ukraine the building wouldn't have been bombed (regardless of how).
It's like opening fire with an Uzi in a school and claiming 9 year old just have shot themselves because there is no way you hit them. In the real world that dental doesn't really work that way - especially in a war (which is as much social as it is battle). It will unfortunately be on Russia to prove that in court one day.
While I think it's important to always second guess what is being said - the reality is this mentality is what enabled both the Holocost and Weinstein.
I don't think that's an accurate comparison. The only facts we have is that a building was hit by a missile; we don't know who fired it and why. We don't know if the building was occupied.
What enabled the Holocaust is people giving in to a tyrant revoking their right to bear arms.
In fact, many of the effects just have not surfaced. As former financial practitioners, our practice is usually to simply block the entire country to prevent possible political risks, unless you are a big customer and worth the extra audit cost. But there is a different level of country risk, and I don't know which level RU will be.
A politician's morality is different from that of a normal person, something that any politician needs to know before entering politics. I do not intend to evaluate this matter from a moral point of view, only that I have friends in Ukraine. So I hope Putin go to hell.
Why are you guys letting yourselves get brainwashed by all the fucking propaganda... Fuck Kremlin and fuck the Russian people, the government is comprised of fucking people, it's not a fucking alien, it's always the fucking people. Respect Namecheap!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-60555650
is this propaganda as well ? not only Africans ,Asians are equally beaten by police.
with more sanctions we are creating more "walled countries" like N.Korea and China, and from now on Russia. the loss is for businesses and citizens, both, as they cannot use/buy services and technology from abroad. Namecheap may have quite less Russian customers, but lets think if it had banned 36-40 countries, then they would have to rely only on U.S customers. This is just an example. Hope Russians and every citizen of this world learns that what happens when you choose a wrong government which attacks another innocent country for mere plans of expansion.
According to CNN, Russia was working to fund their military operation and accumulated money worth $650 billion for the same from last 10 years. So if today, we are saying that if we allow Russians to purchase our services or we purchasing their products, we will help them to fund the military operations - is wrong. We, the entire world, has already funded their military operations by buying oil/gas and running our cars, offices, homes, datacenters, for last 10 years, especially EU countries. I'm not taking side of Russia, this is just an example. So blaming other countries and sanctioning bans, the governments might benefit, but small businesses, professionals, etc will have feel the burden.
this is a lesson for everyone of us, live and let live in peace and harmony and that is only way to achieve universal development, or else we are going back to stone age.
Lol dumb shit Namecheap. The Russian who use Western services like Namecheap probably doesn't want anything to do with this war. Now, Namecheap cut their service.
I mean... Couldn't you say that sanctions and similar restrictions are doing the same thing? The Russian Ruble fell from 13 US cents to 0.9 US cents as a result, which obviously affects the citizens.
If Namecheap want to block service in Russia, that's their choice as a private business. Namecheap are far from the only business doing this; many other companies are doing the same thing. They likely already block service in other countries subject to US sanctions like Cuba and Syria, so I'm not sure how this is any different. Support Ukraine.