Comment by fleddr

This is essentially a non-governmental sanction that is severely lacking any moral basis.

If you would be directly targeting the domains of the Russian administration itself, or its main beneficiaries (oligarchs) you might have a point, but those are not typical namecheap customers I imagine.

So those affected are small businesses and citizens where you assume some type of guilt or complacency simply based on them being Russian. Because indirectly they are contributing tax revenue to the regime.

That's a really low bar. If we would extend that logic and consistently apply it, Russians should be banned from healthcare and food too.

Further, the idea that all this added sanction pressure will get citizens to rise up against the regime is quite an arrogant one to make. As if risking your life to rise up is the least one can do. The pile of sanctions may even worsen the outcome and make Putin even more motivated.

I think it's a reckless, emotional, ad hoc move.