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What's wrong with namecheap?
by hgsgm 3y ago
What's wrong with namecheap?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- mynameisvlad 3y agoThere is nothing wrong with Namecheap as a registrar. Some people have strong stances because they chose not to continue supporting Russian sites last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812
- hgsgm 3y agoAnd yet for the last 5 years (recently confirmed it still happens) they have been calling themself "#1 Host Russia":-o https://www.reddit.com/r/NameCheap/comments/7o0hid/transferred_to_namecheap_1_host_russia_inc/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NameCheap/comments/7o0hid/transferr...
- KomoD 3y agoFound zero information about that other than that post.
- mynameisvlad 3y agoThose two things are not mutually exclusive. They can be the #1 host while also enforcing restrictions (which have exceptions as per https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/10519/5/faq-transfer-of-russian-customers-services-from-namecheap/ https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...) A 5 year old link with a vague "confirmation" that it's still happening is not exactly damning evidence, either. They could have certainly considered themselves the #1 host until last year. A lot of things changed last year.
- hgsgm 3y agoThe "#1" wasn't the important part of that title.
- commoner 3y agoI migrated away from Namecheap because it prevented me from logging in when I used a VPN (that was not Namecheap's own VPN). The company rep's response on HN was less than satisfactory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27705863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27705863
- hgsgm 3y agoTo be fair, namecheap support is completely ignorant and incompetent, so it's possible that support rep babbled nonsense and the HN commenter was correct