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More self-serving excuses on behalf of a Namecheap, a company that provides bullet-proof domain registration and hosting for every manner of criminal gang imagi

More self-serving excuses on behalf of a Namecheap, a company that provides bullet-proof domain registration and hosting for every manner of criminal gang imaginable, from illegal drug sales to phishing to malware hosting, and who hide behind the American constitution when confronted with their criminality. The sooner Namecheap are sued into a smoking crater and every one of their executives is behind bars the better.

rbecker 6y ago
> We refuse to hand over your private information unless the company requesting it has established a legal right to it. Why do you think a company should betray its users without so much as a warrant?
unstatusthequo 6y ago
Huh. I use them and are in none of those categories. You sound kinda mad.
- romaniitedomum 6y ago
  Just a couple of things: 1. Namecheap are the top domain registrar for botnet C&C servers, and have been for years [1]. At one point they were over 65% of all botnet domains. They didn't get and hold that position by being responsive to complaints. 2. The US Justice Department had to sue Namecheap in March over a scam outfit called coronavirusmedicalkit.com [2]. Namecheap happily supplied service to this blatantly criminal fraud. 3. Namecheap have a reputation for ignoring complaints about spammers on their site. [3][4] In my own case, when I reported drug-dealing spammers to them they gave my email address to the spammers in a bid to intimidate me into silence. As for your apparent interpretation of my remarks as saying that everyone hosting with Namecheap must be a criminal, that is so ludicrous a leap as to merit no further attention. [1] https://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/798/spamhaus-botnet-threat-update-q1-2020 https://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/798/spamhaus-botnet-th... [2] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-its-first-enforcement-action-against-covid-19-fraud https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-its-... (See PDF attachments for name of defendant) [3] https://smartypants.com/index.php/news/article/update-on-spam-support-websites-hosted-by-namecheap.com https://smartypants.com/index.php/news/article/update-on-spa... [4] http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200312-namecheap-eff-and-the-dangerous-internet-wild-west/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200312-namecheap-eff-and-the...

rbecker 6y ago

> We refuse to hand over your private information unless the company requesting it has established a legal right to it. Why do you think a company should betray its users without so much as a warrant?

unstatusthequo 6y ago

Huh. I use them and are in none of those categories. You sound kinda mad.

romaniitedomum 6y ago
Just a couple of things: 1. Namecheap are the top domain registrar for botnet C&C servers, and have been for years [1]. At one point they were over 65% of all botnet domains. They didn't get and hold that position by being responsive to complaints. 2. The US Justice Department had to sue Namecheap in March over a scam outfit called coronavirusmedicalkit.com [2]. Namecheap happily supplied service to this blatantly criminal fraud. 3. Namecheap have a reputation for ignoring complaints about spammers on their site. [3][4] In my own case, when I reported drug-dealing spammers to them they gave my email address to the spammers in a bid to intimidate me into silence. As for your apparent interpretation of my remarks as saying that everyone hosting with Namecheap must be a criminal, that is so ludicrous a leap as to merit no further attention. [1] https://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/798/spamhaus-botnet-threat-update-q1-2020 https://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/798/spamhaus-botnet-th... [2] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-its-first-enforcement-action-against-covid-19-fraud https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-its-... (See PDF attachments for name of defendant) [3] https://smartypants.com/index.php/news/article/update-on-spam-support-websites-hosted-by-namecheap.com https://smartypants.com/index.php/news/article/update-on-spa... [4] http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200312-namecheap-eff-and-the-dangerous-internet-wild-west/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200312-namecheap-eff-and-the...