Comment by NamecheapCEO
5 years ago
We've never focused any of our business in China with intention. I didn't want our company to acquise and sell it's soul to do business there so we purposely avoided it all these years. We may have some customers there but not very many that I am aware of.
You focused your business in Russia with intention then?
If so, it seems strange to give them focus, then take the service away because of what their government that they have no control over has done.
If not, then why the inconsistent policies with Russian citizens vs Chinese citizens?
Either way, I don't support involving citizens if it can be avoided. Oligarchs I could understand, similar to the state sanctions, but everyday citizens doesn't make sense.
I do use you guys, but I'll be moving as I don't want my domain provider in any political events or targeting citizens. It's a shame because your bitcoin support was nice.
Russian developers are already having bank account issues, now you spring this on them. It's really not helping the situation. They have nothing to do with these events. You're disconnecting them from the world further.
>Russian developers are already having bank account issues, now you spring this on them. It's really not helping the situation. They have nothing to do with these events. You're disconnecting them from the world further.
This is the point.
In a war, most of the people that end up fighting are innocent to some extent. This is economic warfare. This is Namecheap's volley.
By definition a civilian is not fighting. This policy mainly hurts civilians and doesn't harm the regime at all. Namecheap's "volley" is virtue signaling and exploiting an event at the expense of it's innocent Russian customers who trusted their brand. Why not just target oligarchs like other sanctions?
Simply donating to charities helping in the conflict would help the world a lot more and you could still write your blog post if you wanted. I guess going after the customers you collected is more viral though.
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