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Namecheap have been gaslighting people for years about implementing 2fa. When they finally rolled it out, it was a piece of crap in house built solution that co

Namecheap have been gaslighting people for years about implementing 2fa. When they finally rolled it out, it was a piece of crap in house built solution that couldn't properly send an SMS half the time. I remember them saying they were gonna roll out TOTP "in February" and five februaries past at which point route 53 was pretty mainstream so I moved all my domains. Incredibly dishonest or incompetent company.

nolongerthere 3y ago
Route53 is by far the most expensive DR for all the tlds I looked at, was your only consideration convenience?
- Takennickname 3y ago
  It also unfortunately doesn't support a lot of tlds. I have to use different registrars for that. As far as I remember, the standard average price for a .com back then was like $10 and route 53 was $12. Wasn't a big problem considering how robust the dns panel was compared to everything else at the time.
- Symbiote 3y ago
  For a business with only a few domains, but using AWS for any other services, the convenience of having them in Route 53 is worth the small additional cost. Our most recent renewal cost $12.
  - abofh 3y ago
    Agreed - just mildly annoying it gets invoiced separately instead of being bundled in a monthly line-item, but I'm sure there's some contractual reason it has to be that way.
asah 3y ago
bummer. I haven't had trouble with their 2FA solution and in fact they were one of the first to implement (working + practical) FIDO support. IIRC, I turned that on even before Google. that said, I haven't tried them for key recovery yet... and hope I never have to!
thenickdude 3y ago
For reference, NameCheap TOTP released in 2018: https://www.namecheap.com/blog/protect-account-totp-2-factor/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Service_TOTPExisting_20181129 https://www.namecheap.com/blog/protect-account-totp-2-factor...

nolongerthere 3y ago

Route53 is by far the most expensive DR for all the tlds I looked at, was your only consideration convenience?

Takennickname 3y ago
It also unfortunately doesn't support a lot of tlds. I have to use different registrars for that. As far as I remember, the standard average price for a .com back then was like $10 and route 53 was $12. Wasn't a big problem considering how robust the dns panel was compared to everything else at the time.
Symbiote 3y ago
For a business with only a few domains, but using AWS for any other services, the convenience of having them in Route 53 is worth the small additional cost. Our most recent renewal cost $12.
- abofh 3y ago
  Agreed - just mildly annoying it gets invoiced separately instead of being bundled in a monthly line-item, but I'm sure there's some contractual reason it has to be that way.

asah 3y ago

bummer. I haven't had trouble with their 2FA solution and in fact they were one of the first to implement (working + practical) FIDO support. IIRC, I turned that on even before Google. that said, I haven't tried them for key recovery yet... and hope I never have to!

thenickdude 3y ago

For reference, NameCheap TOTP released in 2018: https://www.namecheap.com/blog/protect-account-totp-2-factor/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Service_TOTPExisting_20181129 https://www.namecheap.com/blog/protect-account-totp-2-factor...