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Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by Aeolun on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:16PM (#30507202)
Easy to say when you are not the target.

Making me use 50% less electricity is one thing. Having to move all my domains would be quite another.

Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by v_47 on Monday February 28, 2022 @08:06PM (#30507747)
At least you are not a target for a missile. For a lot of people right now it's the best what they can hope for.
Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by CamelCaseName on Monday February 28, 2022 @09:04PM (#30508339)
Ah yes, the "someone else has it worse therefore your concerns are irrelevant" argument.

This decision will not prevent a single missile from being fired. On the contrary, it will put more power into Russian entities.

Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by antifa on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:03PM (#30508849)
I don't understand, you're saying that the fact a missle is aimed at someone in the Ukraine gives namecheap a license to shit on their paying customers?
Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by zuminator on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @02:05AM (#30510626)
They're saying that the fact that Russia is invading Ukraine gives namecheap a legitimate reason to decline to provide services in Russia.
Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by lebed2045 on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @12:46AM (#30524187)
you didn't get the problem. Namecheap made two unethical things, one annoying and small and the other that cost lives.

1) The fact that they ask to move Russians to other registrators, is just barely an inconvenience. It cost me 30 seconds to create a ticket in scrum and developers will move everything. But misjudgment by nationality is bad. Imagine if all Jewish customers will get such letters because Isreal/Palestinian war?

2) Catastrophic is this: instead of using millions of dollars from Russian customers to help to save Ukraine and lives - they steer away from this money to governmental control Russian registrators. In other words, their CEO Richard just send this million dollars to Putin instead of Ukraine. That will cost lives.

Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by v_47 on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @12:01AM (#30509839)
In your mind, they are just aimed? And btw companies are free to do or not do business with someone based on their internal reasons. If they find that their business should not conduct business with a customer, it's totally up to them. Until they are following the agreement and contact is withdrawn according to all legal requirements. It's just a regular business practice. Benefits probably were suppressed by the cost.