Comment by xanaxagoras
5 years ago
I'm not in Russia and I don't really care about this war (sorry, just being honest!) but this isn't the kind of internet I want, where companies show their virtue by taking political positions and removing service from their customers (looking at you AWS). The domain and e-mail service that I paid money for shouldn't be contingent on my government behaving and continuing to behave in a manor that Namecheap approves of.
> If you hold any top-level domains with us, we ask that you transfer them to another provider by March 6, 2022.
I'll be transferring them this evening, GFY.
>but this isn't the kind of internet I want
we're not living in some 90s California cypherpunk fantasy any more. The internet is as real of a domain of warfare as any physical one and just like planes are being grounded, pipelines are being turned off you can be sure cyberspace isn't going to be treated any differently.
When Russia and NATO/Europe enter a conflict not caring isn't going to be an option.
So leave that type of warfare to the warring governments. We don't need fractured delivery of every service in accordance with every service provider's politics in relation to current events.
> When Russia and NATO/Europe enter a conflict not caring isn't going to be an option.
I agree, at that point it's WW3. Just what we need, an absolute disaster.
>So leave that type of warfare to the warring governments. We don't need fractured delivery of every service in accordance with every service provider's politics in relation to current events
Why shouldn't Namecheap (or me or anyone else) take a position on the current situation?
This is going to hurt Namecheap. Almost certainly more than it will hurt the Russian government, and likely more than it will hurt Namecheap's Russian customers.
This appears to be Namecheap standing up for their employees (~1700 in Ukraine, IIUC) and taking a moral/ethical stand against the violence, destruction and murder going on right now in Ukraine.
Regardless of which side (or none, for that matter) of this you support, why shouldn't Namecheap (or anyone else) express their position and take action in support of that position?
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> but this isn't the kind of internet I want, where companies show their virtue by taking political positions and removing service from their customers
Which virtue? Justice? Rage? They have 1700 Ukrainian employees, some in cities under siege right now.
They are at war and Russia is their enemy.
It was a decision more motivated by the sanctions than human right of war crime.
The email and CEO's explanations say otherwise.