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Re:Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respon... by TedDoesntTalk on Monday August 15, 2022 @10:33AM (#32470184)
Same with namecheap.com (Ukrainian company)
Re:Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respon... by whitewingjek on Monday August 15, 2022 @10:40AM (#32470267)
They're American with some offices in Ukraine for support, etc..
Re:Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respon... by lolinder on Monday August 15, 2022 @11:05AM (#32470601)
"Some offices" understates it a bit, just under half their workforce is in Ukraine according to their careers pages.

EDIT: I misread it, it's most of their workforce.

Re:Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respon... by whitewingjek on Monday August 15, 2022 @11:22AM (#32470852)
Wow, 1700 teammates in Ukraine vs 40 in the US (according to their site). Didn't know it was such a stark difference.
Re:Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respon... by ahefner on Monday August 15, 2022 @08:00PM (#32477392)
How is that you even need 1700 people to run a domain registrar?
Re:Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respon... by lolinder on Monday August 15, 2022 @11:32AM (#32470985)
Oh, I misread the page! I thought it was 2000 in the US, but that's the year their offices were established. That means the large majority of their workforce is Ukrainian.
Re:Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respon... by jesterson on Monday August 15, 2022 @10:46AM (#32470340)
Terrible service, terrible support. Happy it worked for you, but advice is to stay away as far as possible.

If it's ukrainian company it doesn't mean their service is any good

Re:Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respon... by enlyth on Monday August 15, 2022 @10:46AM (#32470351)
They are based in Phoenix, Arizona, but yes, we've also been using them for years for production stuff and never had issues.
Re:Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respon... by fzfaa on Monday August 15, 2022 @10:49AM (#32470383)
Thanks, will move my only domain from there.
Re:Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respon... by aaaaaaaaata on Monday August 15, 2022 @10:53AM (#32470441)
If you're Russian...they may have already done it for you.
Re:Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respon... by Cthulhu_ on Monday August 15, 2022 @10:38AM (#32470238)
Could be risky with current events; what if Russia seized the company?

I mean you can never predict these things fully, so be ready to move domain registrars or even domain names if you ever need to. Another example, UK residents or businesses that had a .eu domain name were no longer allowed to have it post-brexit.

Re:Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respon... by lolinder on Monday August 15, 2022 @10:49AM (#32470386)
Namecheap has a large Ukrainian workforce but is incorporated in the US and also has employees in many other locations around the world. The company cannot be seized by Russia, and I trust them to take appropriate measures to lock out their Ukrainian offices if the cities fall. In the meantime, I'll stick with Namecheap precisely because they employ a lot of Ukrainians.