domains NameCheap Terminating Services to Russian Customers

[bhartzer]

Namecheap is apparently terminating services to Russian customers:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497665532081889287

Namecheap is asking that customers from Russia transfer their domain names to another registrar by March 6, 2022:

"Unfortunately, due to the Russian regime's war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine, we will no longer be providing services to users registered in Russia. While we sympathize that this war may not affect your own views or opinion on the matter, the fact is, your authoritarian government is committing human rights abuses and engaging in war crimes so this is a policy decision we have made and will stand by.

If you hold any top-level domains with us, we ask that you transfer them to another provider by March 6, 2022. "

 

[Tepnu]

I thought register can't take such decisions without ICANN's approval or consent

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

UN Assembly votes to demand that Russia stop war in Ukraine

 

[narek]

Yes, I do, Soviet Union was by force, so they had the right. Ukrainians are not the same as russians from Moscow and russians from Siberia, they all have some common ancestor, but are different all together, it's simple by checking dna and body features. Between self-proclamation and terrorism it's a fine line.

"yes, I do, soviet union was by force so they had the right". What are you talking about man? You are very far from teaching me something.

Seems like you are forcing yourself not to understand what I write. These people have all the right for self-determination as Kosovo did. It is not me or you who decide and you should not try to interpret the law as you like. It is a right norm fixed by international law as I said before, and has a very precise definition. If you make a little effort I am sure you will understand it, and you will not talk non-sense about ancestry, DNA etc. Ukraine ITSELF agreed to give Lugansk and Donetsk a special status. It is called Minsk 2. None of the 13 points were complied by Ukraine.

It was a real solution to stop the upcoming war but Ukraine did not comply it's agreements.

 

[boker]

UN Assembly votes to demand that Russia stop war in Ukraine

Show this to the propaganda guys, 141 countries is saying this, but they go ahead with RT alternative reality.

 

[Reallybigidea.com]

the people of Russia can stop the war, too
in forcing the people who started it to stop it

Frank, This is impossible because civilians has no weapons. Most russians (not oligarchs) are trying to not die because have no money for food. We are living in recession since 2014. Currently our economy is ruined.

 

[boker]

Frank, This is impossible because civilians has no weapons. Most russians (not oligarchs) are trying to not die because have no money for food. We are living in recession since 2014. Currently our economy is ruined.

We were in the same situation 30 or so years ago, we had to sacrifice us, 3000 died and thousands more wounded...but we will never go back, exactly like lot's of other countries and we will do it 10 times more, if needed.

 

[Sutruk]

Frank, This is impossible because civilians has no weapons. Most russians (not oligarchs) are trying to not die because have no money for food. We are living in recession since 2014. Currently our economy is ruined.

You don't have to take a weapon against Putin. Just go to streets and claim against the war. The world is only hoping to see you doing that.
Putin won't be able to jail 146 million russians. He must leave if you do that.
You are under a dictatorship, with fake elections and all the media controlled by Putin. Years feeding the dictator that now has exploded invading and killing your brothers in Ukraine, just because of his dementia willing to unify the Soviet Empire.
Come on guys, go to the streets, stop your dictator, stop the war, and the whole world will thank you for that.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

7th day of Russian invasion...
These orcs already killed >2,000 civilians in Ukraine, tens of children!

The Hague is waiting for putler and lukashenko...

 

[Armageddon]

Monday, Ukraine's government called for Russia to be disconnected from the global internet. It sent a letter to ICANN, the US-based international non-profit that oversees the global system of internet domain names and IP addresses, with a plea.

"I'm sending you this letter on behalf of the people of Ukraine, asking you to address an urgent need to introduce strict sanctions against the Russian Federation in the field of DNS [Domain Name System] regulation, in response to its acts of aggression towards Ukraine and its citizens," wrote Andrii Nabok, who represents Ukraine on ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee.

Internet governance experts say Ukraine's request, if carried out, would effectively sever Russia from the internet, leaving Russian websites without a home. Email addresses would stop working and internet users wouldn't be able to log on. Russia would suddenly find itself on a digital island.

But those same governance experts are skeptical that Ukraine's request will ultimately be fulfilled. For one thing, they say, it would set a dangerous precedent that could give authoritarian countries license to make similar demands. For another, it is not clear that ICANN could make such a decision even if many wanted it to.

Besides, they added, cutting Russia off from the rest of the digital world might be giving the Kremlin exactly what it wants: a citizenry unable to access outside information.

Governments such as China's have sought to wall off their own people from the outside digital world. But Ukraine's request is unprecedented, according to Vint Cerf, widely considered one of the fathers of the internet.

"It is the first time in my memory that a government has asked ICANN to interfere with the normal operation" of the domain name system at such a scale, Cerf told CNN Business.

"The internet operates in large measure because of substantial levels of trust among the many components of its ecosystem," Cerf added. "Acting on this request would have negative consequence in many dimensions."

The letter was first reported by Rolling Stone. Angelina Lopez, an ICANN spokesperson, confirmed to CNN the letter had been received and that officials were reviewing it, but declined to comment.


This is not good & will not be good
Hope they reject the request

 

[Reallybigidea.com]

@Dot.us so all those decentralized things are not real?

 

[Sutruk]

easely check out this info 18,000,000 people passed through the Gulag's camps
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag

I know that russian people has lived through very hard and bad times through their history. Always under a dictatorship. But you have survived and I love russian people for that. I hate dictators, not the people.
From Lenin to Stalin (mass starving 12 million russians and ukrainians) till now with Putin. It's amazing how history has developed for russian people because you still haven't seen a real democracy there.
Wake up russian people, 99.9% of you are honest and hard workers. You don't deserve to live under a dictatorship anymore. Your dictator right now has massively f*cked up everything in Ukraine and is not going to stop. Lot of peaceful ukrainian brothers are going to die now because of Putin's madness. But this is what happens when a country is run by a dictator for 18 years. Sooner than later he is going to f*ck up everything.
Remember what happened to Poland in 1939? Hitler and Stalin invaded them. Then ww2.
Now Putin is doing the same with Ukraine (first invaded by Hitler and now invaded by Putin). All dictators and megalomaniacs are the same.

 

[Tommys Domains]

Wow, I never thought I would see a domain company virtue signalling. Crazy times.

I support Ukraine 100% but this is a bad decision that will have ramifications for Namecheap in the long run.

 

[Reallybigidea.com]

@frank-germany for stopping the war Germany should stop sending weapons..

Am Samstag hatte die Bundesregierung eine sicherheitspolitische Wende vollzogen und verkündet: Die ukrainischen Streitkräfte bekommen 1000 Panzerfäuste und 500 Boden-Luft-Raketen vom Typ „Stinger“ – zusammengekratzt aus den kaputt gesparten Bundeswehr-Beständen.

Source : https://m.bild.de/politik/2022/poli...ffen-sind-angekommen-79329184.bildMobile.html

 

[frank-germany]

Frank, This is impossible because civilians has no weapons. Most russians (not oligarchs) are trying to not die because have no money for food. We are living in recession since 2014. Currently our economy is ruined.

yes, my friend, I do know that. You do have my compassion as much as the Ukrainians have.

 

[frank-germany]

Wow, I never thought I would see a domain company virtue signalling. Crazy times.

I support Ukraine 100% but this is a bad decision that will have ramifications for Namecheap in the long run.

I guess namecheap is as much determined to stop the invasion as the whole of Ukraine is
they are not worried about short terms losses
in future, I plan to support them
right now I have no domain with them

 

[Sutruk]

@frank-germany for stopping the war Germany should stop sending weapons..

Source : https://m.bild.de/politik/2022/poli...ffen-sind-angekommen-79329184.bildMobile.html

Germany send weapons basically because there's a country trying to not be invaded, people trying to not being killed, and ukrainians at least have the right to self defense.
By the way I don't think that's a war. That's an agression and an invasion by a super powerful armed country to a much smaller country in terms of weapons.
Like a photo I recently have seen... "If Russia stops fighting there will be no war. If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no more Ukraine."
So one is fighting for Putin's megalomaniac dreams to recover the Soviet Union, and the other is fighting for their country to not disappear and for not being killed by a foreign army.

 

[frank-germany]

@frank-germany for stopping the war Germany should stop sending weapons..

Source : https://m.bild.de/politik/2022/poli...ffen-sind-angekommen-79329184.bildMobile.html

Germany has a strict rule never to deliver weapons in areas where a war is happening
but this event right now is so severe
that they changed that really heavy rooted rule
with no meaningful opponents

what Russia does right now is so unheard-of
that unheard-of measures are now taken

we can not allow Putin to succeed
as we risk a nuclear war

by the way, the weapons are for self-defense only

Putin is invading Ukraine as Hitler did with Poland
Putin is regarded as the new Hitler in Germany
and we do know in Germany how important it is to the world
to stop that.

Contrary to the world view Hitler is not much honored in Germany,
but we think of him as a mad criminal.

Same is true for Putin right now.
Mad Criminal.
Who might be mad enough to use nuclear weapons,
as he has threatend already.

 

[Reallybigidea.com]

too much disinformation online e.g.:
5 days ago checkout the title https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60522454

and now this: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/28/europe/snake-island-ukraine-russia-survivors-alive-intl/index.html

 

[bmugford]

too much disinformation online e.g.:
5 days ago checkout the title https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60522454

and now this: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/28/europe/snake-island-ukraine-russia-survivors-alive-intl/index.html

Some stuff is certainly dis/misinformation though I am not sure that is the case here.

Things travel quickly especially with social media.

This part happened -

According to a purported audio exchange, one of the Ukrainian troops had responded to a warning from an approaching Russian vessel to lay down their weapons or face bombing by saying, "Russian warship, go f*** yourself."

Then communications went dead. It was assumed they died.

What happened afterwards is -

According to the navy the soldiers on the island repelled two attacks by Russian forces but in the end were forced to surrender "due to the lack of ammunition."

Some things are disinformation, others are just the fog of war.

Maybe this thread should be moved to "Break Room" or another section. It has kind of gone off the rails when it comes to "Domain Industry News".

Brad

 

[User234]

Transfer auth codes and confirmation emails have stopped arriving from Namecheap. I've transferred a ton of domains and now I can't transfer the rest. What am I supposed to do with the deadlines that he's set when his system doesn't even work?

 

[bamboozle]

Transfer auth codes and confirmation emails have stopped arriving from Namecheap. I've transferred a ton of domains and now I can't transfer the rest. What am I supposed to do with the deadlines that he's set when his system doesn't even work?

Contact support

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

 

[LoveCatchyDomains]

These are current updates from pcmag's website.

UPDATE 3/2/22: Namecheap now says it's offering "free anonymous domain registration and free web hosting to all protest or anti-war websites in Russia or Belarus."

UPDATE 3/1/22: Namecheap is amending the policy with exceptions for Russian-based users, who plan on using the company's web hosting service to oppose the war.

"Firstly, we will make exceptions for all anti-regime media, protest resources, and any type of websites that are helping to end this war and regime — we will continue to welcome you using our services. Please accept our apologies for any disruption this caused, and we thank you for helping to fight against this tyranny," the company told PCMag.

Namecheap is also extending the termination date for all other Russian-based users from March 6th to March 22nd. "If there are legitimate reasons that you may need more time, we will make exceptions if they are deemed reasonable," the company added.

 

[Reallybigidea.com]

Russia's economy is in tatters.
Their currency is failing.
Interest rates over 20%.

Their reputation is now a pariah that pretty much the rest of the world and private companies want nothing to do with.

Let's see how long they can maintain until the country defaults.

Pretty soon we might have a situation where the Ruble is the new Zimbabwe dollar. A loaf of bread will cost 10,000 rubles.

I hope the price was worth it.

Brad

only one way - acceptance cryptocurrency Ethereum or BTC for payments in russia.

 

[VadimK]

Russia's economy is in tatters.
Their currency is failing.
Interest rates over 20%.

Their reputation is now a pariah that pretty much the rest of the world and private companies want nothing to do with.

Let's see how long they can maintain until the country defaults.

Pretty soon we might have a situation where the Ruble is the new Zimbabwe dollar. A loaf of bread will cost 10,000 rubles.

I hope the price was worth it.

Brad

Why would a country default? Europe, the US and Canada are not the whole world.
Currency was failing big time during Crimea takeover, now they are ready for this scenario, even 10 times worse. The economy is much more ready than it was 8 years ago.
They don't give a shit about reputation, it's an existential threat to Russia.

Here is the thing that most of you guys don't understand. The more shit world creates for Russia (irrelevant of the reasons) the more Russians think of them being 100% right.
You think the other way around - we create more problems and they turn their rage to Putin. It's a wrong mindset, exactly the opposite happens.