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Namecheap.com: We say no to SOPA
- brianbreslin 15y agoDo any non godaddy registrars offer bulk discounts?
- simonsarris 15y agoAsk! Many do not advertise it but will do a bulk discount if you ask. I'm pretty certain Namecheap is one of them (if you have more than 50 I think).
- telemekus 15y agoContacted a help person @namecheap. when I asked for 50+ domains, was told, there is no bulk discount other than the current SOPASuck type deal. The current SOPASucks is limited to 10 domains. I Wish there was a bulk discount. Pity namecheap couldn't come up with tiered bulk domain transferring pricing.
- brianbreslin 15y agoyeah with almost 100 domains, I'd love to move them all at once and save some coin.
- Lazare 15y agoI moved all my domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap a while ago. The experience was really smooth, and Namecheap's interface is a TON easier to work with. Although I support the idea of switching domains from GoDaddy to protest their support of SOPA, I sort have to wonder why anyone technically oriented hasn't done so already. Is there ANYTHING to recommend them other than name recognition?
- bcl 15y agoI made the move back when GoDaddy pulled Fydor's domain w/o warning. I'm glad to see that I don't have to hunt down yet another registrar that supports freedom.
- citricsquid 15y agoPrices. Nobody beats godaddy on prices when you use coupons (which exist everywhere). Also brand recognition, looking at their public support forum and Facebook I would suspect a large number of their customers don't know how registrars and hosting work, so they don't know anything beyond godaddy.
- gwillen 15y agoHistorical reasons. I've had my domains with them for almost ten years. Ten years ago they were the geek registrar of choice.
- jambo 15y agoSame here. I transfered all of my domains from Network Solutions to them about 10 years ago and have mostly been able to ignore them--I run my own name servers & hosting. More recently, I've been registering domains on namecheap, and this may provide the motivation to finally consolidate my names with a less offensive registrar.
- gwillen 15y agoI am planning to transfer my domains to nearlyfreespeech.net. The only thing stopping me is that I renewed them 30 days ago, and apparently you can't transfer a domain within 60 days of renewal for some reason.
- mappu 15y agoGoDaddy also has a larger variety of ccTLDs available (for instance, namecheap doesn't sell .it or .es). But i'm sure there are lots of other registrars that support those domains and not this act.
- cowkingdeluxe 15y agoNamecheap.com: We say no to SOPA but only accept Visa and Mastercard, both of whom support SOPA.
- mvanveen 15y agoWhen I was growing up and learning about DNS, HTTP, protocols, and packets I really wanted to get my own domain, but being under 18, I had no easy way to pay a registar without a credit card. Namecheap was one of the first registrars to accept Paypal, and this helped me get started when I was first developing my passion for web development. I've been using them for years and plan to continue using them for a long time.
- tarellel 15y agoAnd namecheap sits back and banks on not opening their mouths and keeping their ideas with what the masses want. Not that I have anything wrong with them, they're a great registrar that everyone should switch to.
- cdr 15y agoNote that while Namecheap doesn't support SOPA, they clearly do support some form of new IP legislation: "not in favor of SOPA as it has been proposed", "... only a surgical strike is necessary." Whatever comes after SOPA/PROTECT IP - assuming they're defeated - Namecheap may well endorse.
- cheald 15y agoMost sane people support sane IP legislation. It's perfectly reasonable for IP holders to want to have legal recourse against the bad guys. There are lots of people making a lot of money selling a lot of illegal merchandise online. What people protest about SOPA is that it gives tools to companies (with a history of abusing the recourses granted to them by law) that are akin to a wrecking ball intended to be used as a flyswatter. Sure, you'll get the fly, but you're going to take out three walls, a couple of load-bearing columns, and an unfortunate cat in the process.
- cdr 15y agoWe have pretty sane IP law already in the DMCA - IP rightsholders already have several avenues of recourse, including the US govt's warantless domain seizures. Anything new is going to beyond the DMCA, and probably far beyond. I am not in support of that and have a hard time cheering on any company that is in support.
- cheald 15y agoI generally agree. However, I'm not going to categorically state that matters can't be improved, so I don't think that it's correct to always associate "IP legislation" with "RIAA/MPAA power grab". I firmly believe that the issues of content and software piracy are distribution issues, rather than legislation issues. I also believe that it would be silly to say "Welp, things are good enough, no more changes needed ever". To say "We will never support IP legislation" is an untenable position, and I'd be wary of any company that would make such a broad statement. Namecheap made the right one by saying "We support internet freedom".
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- Rhapso 15y agomaybe I have this wrong, but it sounds like they heard the rabble rousing and made a well timed good marketing move. No surprise. But it does make me sad when a political stance is a marketing move.
- cheald 15y agoI have no problem with it if their political stance actually lines up with the marketing move. If folks are mad that your competitor likes to kick puppies, it's totally fair game to say "Hey, we provide the same thing, and you don't have to finance puppy-kicking if you use us."
- Rhapso 15y agoI hope you are right, and the order of things is as you say. If not we are trading one evil for another.
- akadien 15y agoWhy does it make you sad for a business to react to market conditions and try to garner more customers as well as let existing customers know their stance? That is why they exist. I would be sad if they didn't take a stance and use it to support their business.
- Rhapso 15y agoI suppose if the order is as such, "we already have this stance, and if we market it now it will benefit us" it would not bug me as much. However if it had this order "If we take this stance and market it, it will benefit us" it implies the stance will last only as long as the marketing and the benefit. I guess at the lowest root, I feel like marketing and politics should never be mixed, that using marketing in politics, and taking advantage of politics in marketing is somehow perhaps irrationally, the cause of a lot of our current cultural and lobbying abuse troubles. However, I am so left wing I fall a bit off the scale and I most definitely do not have the soul of a business man, perhaps I am best dismissed as a crazy person.
- sontek 15y agoDoes namecheap have free DNS? I have 25 domains on godaddy and thinking about moving them, but I will need to be able to manage nameservers through whoever I switch to since right now thats all done through godaddy. Also, whats the cost of transfering?
- yeswecan 15y agoI don't know about the transfer cost, but I know they do have free DNS as I use it myself.
- prpon 15y agoI just transferred the last few of my godaddy domains to Namecheap. I've used namecheap as dns host for a while without problems. Transfers are $6.99 with SOPASucks coupon code. SOPA finally made me get off my lazy ass and do something about consolidating all of them to namecheap.
- peeplaja 15y agoCost of transfer is 1 year fee, so $9.95 for .com domains
- xelfer 15y ago$6.99 using the SOPASucks code. http://i.imgur.com/MDSHl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/MDSHl.jpg
- chc 15y agoYep, they offer free DNS hosting. I've used them as my primary DNS and registrar for years without issue.
- seldo 15y agoTotally independently of their SOPA stance, I would recommend Namecheap over GoDaddy. I've been using Namecheap for years; they are reliable and have a sane (if not terribly pretty) user interface.
- guywithabike 15y agoI switched to Namecheap after I got bit in the ass by the RegisterFly fiasco. Namecheap has been great to me ever since. I highly recommend them, despite their spammy-sounding name.
- Jim_Neath 15y agoI've been using namecheap for years and have yet to have a single issue with them.
- rev087 15y agoI just own a few domais, but they are all registered at Namecheap, the first since 2006. I too am yet to face a single issue with their service.
- jccodez 15y agoAnother satisfied Namecheap customer.
- cluboholic 15y agohave 30+ domains on namecheap for years now. very satisfied. never had a problem.
- arto 15y agoSeconded. I've used Namecheap for some 7 years now. Unlike so many of their competitors, they actually care about customer satisfaction.
- laironald 15y agoNo complaints about Namecheap over here as well.
- firefoxman1 15y agoNow there is a perfect marketing opportunity seized by Namecheap. Reminds me of when LaLa was acquired and Pandora offered a month free of Pandora One to "LaLa refugees."
- 8ig8 15y agoJust adding a shout for Hover. They've been opposing SOPA for a while now: https://www.hover.com/blog/hover-opposes-sopa https://www.hover.com/blog/hover-opposes-sopa
- l0c0b0x 15y agoNamecheap was the most referenced domain registrar when I was planning on moving away from GoDaddy. They really have their act together and I've been happy with them ever since. Way to go on your SOPA stance.
- Legion 15y agoThat's nice. But I prefer my registrar have freedom and anti-censorship be a core everyday value, like NearlyFreeSpeech, rather than something to embrace as a marketing opportunity. Maybe that's unfair to Namecheap, but at any rate, all these issues with GoDaddy that people seem to suddenly care about just now are the reasons I have given NFS all my domain registration business for years now. Just being anti-SOPA isn't good enough.
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- muyuu 15y agoDoes that mean that you need to raise the issue in your brand name to have freedom and anti-censorship as a core everyday value?
- Legion 15y agoNope. Talking about it normally, and not just when it's a convenient hot-button issue, would be sufficient. A history of backing up those words with actions that match would also help.
- soult 15y agoJust FYI, nearlyfreespeech.net is a name.com reseller. name.com did speak out against SOPA too, but only after namecheap did.
- jtreminio 15y agoI like NFS, but apparently they have some caveats, such as you cannot set up a domain to use its' own nameservers (buy foo.com, setup nameservers as ns1.foo.com ns2.foo.com with dedicated IPs) without them charging you $50 (?) /hour in tech support... PER nameserver. Sorry NFS, I'm moving away.
- Legion 15y agoI'm sure NFS isn't the only registrar that fits my description. They're just the one I know about. I would love to hear about others that hold the same standard.
- wesley 15y agoIf only namecheap had automatic renewals without having to first put in funds (via paypal). That's the one thing I like about godaddy.. (they charge your cc)
- chjj 15y agoHappy to say I've been using namecheap for a little while now. Never had a problem with them.
- akadien 15y agoI've been a very happy Namecheap customer for years, and I have steered everyone I know looking for a registrar to them. I moved from EasyDNS and never regretted it. Now, I'm glad to see they are politically enlightened.
- jqueryin 15y agoIf anyone here works at NameCheap, can I catch a break somehow if I try to transfer all of my domains over? I've got 20+ and hate spending extra money if they aren't up for renewal anytime soon.
- tyler_ball 15y agoFrom the Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supports_sopa_im_transferring_51_domains/ http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supp... Apparently you can use the coupon code BYEBYEGD and save some money transferring to Namecheap.
- krober 15y agoA manager from Namecheap said that there's a deal when you transfer 50+ domains. You might be able to work something out with them for 20+, but the manager didn't respond to a request for a 43 domain transfer, so it seems unlikely. http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supports_sopa_im_transferring_51_domains/c3aaeji http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supp...
- yourapostasy 15y agoSomeone could ask Namecheap to allow people to "bundle" a transfer to hit their discount levels. Enable customers to get together and transfer all their domains from a single registrar like GoDaddy all on the same day. Customer Foo has 43 domains, customer Bar has 7 domains, they both transfer all of these domains on the same day and both key in a bundle code. They both show up in the same transfer bundle, so both get the 50 domain discount. The bundle code could be an extension of the discount code, like Foo would enter BYEBYEGD:Email-addy-of-Bar while Bar enters BYEBYEGD:Email-addy-of-Foo. That type of structure would limit the bundling to two customers coordinating with each other (so Namecheap doesn't lose out on handing out too many discounts). Other structurings of bundles are possible, of course, depending upon Namecheap's internal sales and marketing goals.
- radicalcakes 15y agoI'm glad I started using Namecheap instead of Godaddy. I was inexperienced about registrars at that time...it was Russian Roulette choosing the right registrar. Thank goodness Namecheap's interface wooed me over GoDaddy's. I beat the bullet.
- tsycho 15y agoHere's a step-by-step guide on how to transfer domains from Godaddy to Namecheap: http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-guide-to-transfer-domains-out-of-godaddy http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-g... PS> I didn't write the guide. I am not affiliated to Namecheap. I just found it useful.
- iSloth 15y agoQuote "Let us be clear: Namecheap is not in favor of SOPA as it has been proposed." Yes that's very clear, the agree is some kind of SOPA...
- zdgman 15y agoJust moved my two domains over to Namecheap from Godaddy. I then went and purchase a third domain directly from Namecheap that I want to use for a side project. Not a crazy amount of money by any means but ever little bit counts.
- ballstothewalls 15y agonamecheap isnt saying "no" to SOPA; they are saying "yes" to all the transfers from godaddy. P.S. I <3 namcheap
- ilanrabinovitch 15y agoUnfortunately you do not have DNSSEC or IPv6 glue record support though.