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First time I find myself cheering for FB. Namecheap are notorious for criminal-friendly hosting. Just the other day I contacted Namecheap support about a site t

First time I find myself cheering for FB. Namecheap are notorious for criminal-friendly hosting. Just the other day I contacted Namecheap support about a site that was spamming Usenet groups and which was hosted with Namecheap. The site was offering to sell marijuana. Namecheap gave my contact details to their customer and told me they would do nothing. Namecheap are happy to profit from criminality and no-one who values their reputation should have anything to do with them.

freehunter 7y ago
This is the same argument that could be leveraged against any privacy focused company. In fact it has been, against Apple and the various privacy focused email companies and WhatsApp and VPN companies, the list goes on. What did you expect Namecheap to do? Take your word for it and ban one of their customers, just because you said so?
- romaniitedomum 7y ago
  > What did you expect Namecheap to do? Take your word for it and ban one of their customers, just because you said so? What did I expect them to do? Look at the reported site they're hosting. Is it violating their TOS? If so, remove it.
  - ksec 7y ago
    What if selling marijuana is legal? And doesn't violate their TOS?
    - romaniitedomum 7y ago
      Legal where? It may be legal to sell it where it's hosted, but will they check that it's legal to deliver it to the destination? And the site in question has text on it promising to pack the goods in dog-proof bags and they also promise to refund customers whose orders are seized, indicating they know perfectly well they're breaking the law and are happy to help others do it too.
qqssccfftt 7y ago
On one hand, giving big companies the ability to force domain name providers to unmask their customers continues the SV mantra of eroding privacy as much as possible. On the other hand, a customer was selling weed! How dare they!
smabie 7y ago
Marijuana is legal in a lot of places. It seems pretty unreasonable of Namecheap to take domains down because you don’t them.

freehunter 7y ago

This is the same argument that could be leveraged against any privacy focused company. In fact it has been, against Apple and the various privacy focused email companies and WhatsApp and VPN companies, the list goes on. What did you expect Namecheap to do? Take your word for it and ban one of their customers, just because you said so?

romaniitedomum 7y ago
> What did you expect Namecheap to do? Take your word for it and ban one of their customers, just because you said so? What did I expect them to do? Look at the reported site they're hosting. Is it violating their TOS? If so, remove it.
- ksec 7y ago
  What if selling marijuana is legal? And doesn't violate their TOS?
  - romaniitedomum 7y ago
    Legal where? It may be legal to sell it where it's hosted, but will they check that it's legal to deliver it to the destination? And the site in question has text on it promising to pack the goods in dog-proof bags and they also promise to refund customers whose orders are seized, indicating they know perfectly well they're breaking the law and are happy to help others do it too.

qqssccfftt 7y ago

On one hand, giving big companies the ability to force domain name providers to unmask their customers continues the SV mantra of eroding privacy as much as possible. On the other hand, a customer was selling weed! How dare they!

smabie 7y ago

Marijuana is legal in a lot of places. It seems pretty unreasonable of Namecheap to take domains down because you don’t them.