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> Because at Namecheap, we care about your privacy protection. Only when we can stop profiting from selling privacy services because of a new law that came int
by tcd 8y ago
> Because at Namecheap, we care about your privacy protection.
Only when we can stop profiting from selling privacy services because of a new law that came into effect a few days ago.
I'd have believed them if they did this 2 years ago once GDPR was announced. Already moved my domains from namecheap since they are not the cheapest and didn't offer free whois until now.
- stratosgear 8y agoMind to share what you choose to use?
- baby 8y agoOvh. They also always had this service for free.
- mdasen 8y agoNameSilo is a couple dollars cheaper than Namecheap and include free privacy as well (https://www.namesilo.com/pricing.php https://www.namesilo.com/pricing.php).
- imron 8y agoI second NameSilo.
- PakG1 8y agoYup, happy switcher from Namecheap to NameSilo for a while now.
- slig 8y agoI only read good things about them here on HN, but their website design put me off. It looks like them haven't updated it for a decade. On the "Create new account" page, their captcha is just a table with black/white background colors to create the letters. Never seem something like that before, and it can be trivially bypassed.
- otterpro 8y agoI moved to NameSilo as well few years ago.
- bmarquez 8y agoSwitched from Namecheap to Namesilo a few years ago for free privacy, I've had no problems with it.
- maltalex 8y agoWhat's the catch though? Domain registration is a pretty competitive business. How come NameSilo can to be so much cheaper?
- jazoom 8y agoPretty simple I think. They just make less profit per domain.
- Avaray 8y agoI think my list is more user friendly: https://projects.dav.one/namesilo/domains/ https://projects.dav.one/namesilo/domains/ I created it for myself, but feel free to use.
- strictnein 8y agoThe GDPR wouldn't limit the sale of privacy services to 90+% of the world.