Be careful about using Namecheap for Hosting and Domain

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I have been using namecheap services for many years, for domains they are really good. Whois protection is offered completely free unlike other popular registrars like GoDaddy. Basically fair and good service if you don't need support.

Though I currently don't have any important domains active with them moved to google domains for other reason.

They have started suspending service to russian customers because of political reason. Namecheap is registered in US but their 90% staff is in Ukraine. Their support is also completely down right now.

Don't think they are very happy with Indians also right now so who knows if they decide to suspend our domains too. or that could happen in future.

They have the right to not offer their service to anyone they want. But giving less than 1-2 weeks notice for moving all domains and hosting services of customers who have no direct control over the conflict is a very d1ck move. They could have stopped accepting any new customer and renewals from russia if they wanted.

Domains and hosting data, specially domains once lost are gone. For hosting may be you can use backups and stuff to restore your data. Still if you were using their dedicated servers or hosting big sites it can be difficult to quickly migrate your service.

Most people pay for domains and hosting in advance, no refund. If unfortunately you are stuck in a situation without internet or in hospital or something your domain will be gone.



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Moved to Cloudflare registrar a long while back, even though they are an American company, I'm hoping they will not pull such stunts, since they have physical data centers to take care of.
 
More than a year and they still haven't launched dotco. Dotin is not even on public roadmap 😂
 
With Google domains i have to pay extra GST but that's once a year charge. And if you use Google workspace it automatically connects, also email forwarding is nice. And webmaster, adsense, analytics other Google product verification also happens automatically if you use same google account. No need for dns txt record or other verification.

I guess cloudflare is offering the cheapest option for registration also email forwarding. Not tried their email forwarding or domain service. For once a year payment pricing doesn't really makes a difference though.

Namecheap was my go to domain registrar from many years. After this stunt really hard to trust their service for your main sites. Most non Russian people on reddit who actually have websites agree it's not fair to do this normal people website who have paid them and not abusing their service to host anti Ukrainian content or something. Just don't allow renewal and new customers if they really wanted.
 
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