I disagree. If a company portrays itself explicitly or implicitly as offering low prices them it's more than fair when they jack up prices.

Namecheap's own description is "Buy cheap domain names and enjoy 24/7 support."

I do not understand why people feel the need to play the role of a corporate white knight and do their best to shield them from any criticism.

FWIW, "quit whiteknighting for the megacorps", when someone rejects a comment that happens to slight a corporation, is just as tired as their complaint no matter how effective "down with teh corporations!1" is on social media.

That makes as much sense as accusing someone of whiteknighting just because they happen to defend a female politician or whoever.

Namecheap advertises cheap domains when, as covered in this discussion, it jacks up prices. This is impossible to defend even by the staunchest corporate shill.

Anyone can opt to go off tangents playing semantics games. Meanwhile, if a company portrays itself as selling cheap products and services and then charges a hefty premium in exchange for nothing, they deserve being called out on what amounts to false advertising.

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

GP suggested the complaint about nameCHEAP wasn't well received because it's boring, not because it's wrong or unfair. It's not a semantic game I'm playing, I agree that the reason the complaint wouldn't be well received is because it is boring/not interesting.

Downvotes may not mean "this company doesn't deserve to be called out." They may mean "I didn't come here to wade through boring content."

It's about as interesting as the armchair philosophy 101 HN comment that humans are also nothing more than statistical token prediction machines.