Re:Namecheap now accepts Bitcoin with zero confirmations
by mseebach on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @04:02AM
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You're holding them to an unreasonable standard here, IMO. They've got "cheap" in their name - you can't have your cake (dirt cheap product) and eat it too (perfect service and procedures).
The profound apology and promise of fixing the procedure is already above and beyond what anyone (again, IMO) has a right to expect from a vendor of a $4 product.
Long story short it was alleged there was child pornography hosted on imgur. Namecheap took it upon themselves to "Block the domain for abuse" because the owner of the domain didn't reply in a time frame Namecheap deemed appropriate. Since Namecheap neither hosts, nor transmits any of the content on Imgur, it was very troublesome to hear they would shut down someones domain by their own hand, with no involvement, nor request from law enforcement.
I just don't feel comfortable leaving my domain name in the hands a lone abuse department team member that can evidentially change any domains nameservers without any approval or oversight.Additionally, the new nameservers Namecheap picked had a 48 hour TTL, meaning the website was potentially down for 2 days for some people.