I used to have all my domains on namecheap and they used to be good but I transferred all my domains away years ago and seeing this I have no regrets. I would be paying at least $100 more per year if I stayed with them at this point.
I don't like Namecheap, but this particular price increase is caused by the registry. I just checked Cloudflare, which sells domains at cost, and they're raising prices too:
> VeriSign announced that from Sep 1, 2024, it will increase the annual registry-level wholesale price for .net domain names by 67 cents to $10.26 from $9.59.
Same here- I used to have all my domains on Namecheap until their CEO came on HN to announce that anybody who forced their parents to give birth to them in Russia has exactly 1 week to transfer all their domains away somewhere else.
I don't fall into that category, but this was so ignorant and insulting that I transferred away all my domains to Cloudflare and never looked back.
Yep, same here. The second they decided to just drop all their customers with a specific nationality I immediately transferred everything I had elsewhere.
Why choose to do business with a company like that when there's other companies they aren't doing things like that? Why choose to stay with a company where tomorrow your government could do something they disapprove of and they're now dropping you and now you're scrambling to rectify things?
But you don't understand: what "your government" is doing is really bad. And a big part of Namecheap's team is the recipient of what "your government" is doing. And you paying taxes to "your government", or even at the grocery store as you live your nondescript life, is you implicitly supporting "your government" in doing those bad things.
Therefore dropping you as a customer with almost zero notice is warranted (you monster).
If you don't like it, then email our team and plead with us and justify yourself. Tell us you're one of the good ones. We might deign to give you a bit more time to pack your bags.
(To sarcastically paraphrase the Namecheap CEO's statements here on HN.)
Good, thank you for doing that. I see the peanut gallery is triggered by the R-word and is trying to silence you. Before pressing that down button, please familiarize yourself with the announcement and see how much problems it created for the already very troubled Russian opposition at the worst possible time:
Fuck Namecheap. I'll be spreading the word around until I die. I have already costed them half a dozen potential clients who cared about my opinion enough to decide to look elsewhere.
