Because they don't want to be involved in operations in Russia, especially while having Ukranian employees. As the GGP points out, any transaction in Russia implicitly helps the government through taxes.
They have put their morality and employees' above whatever business they got out of being in Russia.
I legitimately don't understand what argument you are even trying to make here.
A private corporation is able to choose who to do business with, for any reason they want. They are not beholden to anyone but themselves and their shareholders.
Namecheap has a sizeable Ukranian workforce, they have elected to put them above their Russian customers. As should be, honestly, obvious, to everyone reading here.
Nobody is claiming this will overthrow the government but you.
Russia is engaged in an illegal war of aggression. There will be consequences for this. If the people of Russia are suffering they need to put that pressure on their government from inside.
Once upon a time trading with the enemy would get you shot. Now obviously those days are past and it is no apparently perfectly acceptable to do this (see: German Gas), but for Namecheap this isn't about money, but about the fact that their employees are mostly in Ukraine and that you are effectively asking them to continue to trade with the party that has declared themselves their enemy, which they - in good conscience - probably can not do, effectively or at all.
If your country was invading mine and while I'm trying to stay alive and keep those near me safe, food is running out and worse would be aware that my employer is still serving customers on the other side of the divide I would seriously consider giving them a piece of my mind.
In the legal "trading with the enemy" sense an "enemy" is a country your country is actually at at war with... Germany is not currently at war with Russia, Ukraine is.
Because they don't want to be involved in operations in Russia, especially while having Ukranian employees. As the GGP points out, any transaction in Russia implicitly helps the government through taxes.
They have put their morality and employees' above whatever business they got out of being in Russia.
> helps the government through taxes
And legitimacy.
I legitimately don't understand what argument you are even trying to make here.
A private corporation is able to choose who to do business with, for any reason they want. They are not beholden to anyone but themselves and their shareholders.
Namecheap has a sizeable Ukranian workforce, they have elected to put them above their Russian customers. As should be, honestly, obvious, to everyone reading here.
Nobody is claiming this will overthrow the government but you.
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Someone is going to suffer, should it be:
(A) A Russian tax payer, or,
(B) A Ukrainian bomb recipient?
It's not fair, but if your country does evil -- you are not entirely innocent.
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Russia is engaged in an illegal war of aggression. There will be consequences for this. If the people of Russia are suffering they need to put that pressure on their government from inside.
Once upon a time trading with the enemy would get you shot. Now obviously those days are past and it is no apparently perfectly acceptable to do this (see: German Gas), but for Namecheap this isn't about money, but about the fact that their employees are mostly in Ukraine and that you are effectively asking them to continue to trade with the party that has declared themselves their enemy, which they - in good conscience - probably can not do, effectively or at all.
If your country was invading mine and while I'm trying to stay alive and keep those near me safe, food is running out and worse would be aware that my employer is still serving customers on the other side of the divide I would seriously consider giving them a piece of my mind.
In the legal "trading with the enemy" sense an "enemy" is a country your country is actually at at war with... Germany is not currently at war with Russia, Ukraine is.
I think when one country threatens the whole world with nuclear annihilation we don't need to play silly wordgames.
Which enemy is German Gas trading with?
You are expecting people to remain completely rational while being shot at. What your emotional response is is of no concern.