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Namecheap is another dumpster fire of a registrar. While GoDaddy seems to generally carry a low bar, Namecheap on the other hand completely turns a blind eye to
by stevenjohns 6y ago
Namecheap is another dumpster fire of a registrar. While GoDaddy seems to generally carry a low bar, Namecheap on the other hand completely turns a blind eye to their service becoming the number one platform for stolen credit cards buying thousands of domains for international phishing scams everyday.
They double down on this by putting their “legal” team in Eastern Europe and make it seem like actioning their TOS against scammers puts them in a position of violating free speech (or something equally as stupid).
I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of Namecheap’s income comes from domains registered for phishing scams. It’s that rampant and they just do not care.
- jrochkind1 6y agoWhat registrar do you recommend as ethical, competent, and treating their customers well, with good UI?
- stevenjohns 6y agoI don't even care about being ethical -- just don't literally facilitate and turn a blind eye to crime. I moved to, among others, Porkbun.
- jrochkind1 6y agoI'm not sure I want my registrar to be judging whether they think I'm criminal or not and terminating my service. I think that's the job for courts. But maybe I need to read up more on this issue, can you recommend articles as background reading?
- stevenjohns 6y agoSo what you're suggesting is that registrars should be exempt from the standard that we hold literally everything else to? This isn't a subjective topic. These are criminal syndicates stealing credit cards and using them to buy services from Namecheap for the explicit goal of creating deceitful websites to defraud people. Namecheap has an Acceptable Use Policy section[0] in their TOS specifically for these situations yet uniquely refuses to enforce it. Enforcing it is an explicit requirement in the ICANN registry agreement[1] that Namecheap is required to follow to be an accredited registrar. Allowing this to take place, even after it is reported, is potentially a criminal act in and of itself. [0] https://www.namecheap.com/legal/universal/universal-tos/ https://www.namecheap.com/legal/universal/universal-tos/ [1] https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/agreements/agreement-approved-31jul17-en.html#specification11 https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/agreements/ag...