'Namecheap', a major domain registration company, suddenly terminated its service in Russia, and sent a straight-line email to customers saying 'because of the war crimes of the Russian government'



Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022,

Facebook and YouTube stopped monetizing Russian government-related media, and Twitter and others deleted Russian accounts that send fake news. IT companies are taking various measures, such as Netflix refusing to distribute Russia's national broadcasting channel. In addition to these efforts, it was found that Namecheap, a major domain registrar, had announced to Russian users that it had discontinued its service in Russia.

Namecheap terminates services for Russians, asks them to move domains
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On February 28, 2022, Namecheap sent an email to a Russian customer informing them that the service would be discontinued. A screenshot of the Namecheap notice uploaded by a Twitter user said, 'Unfortunately, due to the war crimes and human rights violations of the Russian administration in Ukraine, we will stop providing services to users registered in Russia.' It is written.



Namecheap went on to say, 'I presume that this war will not affect your own views and opinions on this issue, but your authoritarian government has violated human rights and committed war crimes. It is true that we are involved, so we have come to make this political decision, 'he continued, explaining that criticism and protests against the Kremlin were the reasons for the discontinuation of the service. ..

Namecheap also called on Russian users to transfer their top-level domains to other providers by March 6, and announced that their domains would display immediate errors as they expired. However, even after an error occurs, we will respond individually to users who wish to switch providers.

Hacker News, a social news site that talked about this notification, posted 1024 comments at the time of writing, including comments supporting Namecheap and many Ukrainian employees in Namecheap. There was a comment praising 'Thank you for doing well. Thank you for standing up for the employees.'

On the other hand, comments such as 'I have to say that I was amazed. Do you intend to make the cancellation culture a virtue until you cancel hundreds or thousands of contracts? This is a professional act.' 'I think we should file a class action against Namecheap. We haven't violated any contract and none of us are on the US sanctions list, but this company has them. There are some comments that blame Namecheap, such as 'The Internet is an area of freedom, not a selection of people.'



Namecheap CEO Richard Kirkendle wrote in this thread himself, who responded to the thread's dissenting opinion by saying, 'I'm not blocking the domain, I'm asking you to switch. That's not deplatforming , as there are so many other options for infrastructure services. I sympathize with those who aren't supporters of the Putin administration, but the taxes they pay end up flowing to the administration. On the other hand, there are people in Ukraine who are just being bombed. Continuing to help the Russian administration in any way feels an intolerable blame for this decision. Those who are angry need to ask their government for the cause. '

CEO Kirkendle has also posted a tweet on Twitter stating that he is concerned about the war and is determined to oppose it.

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