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How is this supposed to help? Ok, i get the virtue signaling angle, but seriously. What do you expect? That people want domains so much that they'll drop everything, abandon their families, kids, jobs, and go rise up against a well-defended president who'll jail or kill them for protesting?

This does NOTHING to help Ukraine, hurts INNOCENT Russians, and makes you look good in the eyes of only the least attentive....

So...why?

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If we were virtue signaling we wouldn't willingly be giving up a not non significant part of our business. This hurts us financially but it's the right thing to do, at least for us.

Your leader/country is already killing innocent civilians/ukranians. They are putting it all on the line with their lives. They didn't ask for this yet they are dying for it. Change needs to come and the only way it can is for the Russian population to put it on the line as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#Ira...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_war...

What makes this one different? I can understand being appalled at governments waging war at the cost of civilian life, but it's not like that just started 5 days ago...

I think the difference is namecheap has a non insignificant number of employees in Ukraine.

Where was your conscience when innocents of other countries were being killed? - Didn't the US kill innocents in all its wars? - Didn't the Saudi's kill innocent journalists? - Isn't Israel killing innocent Palestinians? - Isn't China killing innocents in Xinjiang? - Even innocents have lost their lives in my own country in the name of religion.

I have been donating to Ukraine's cause since this war started, but I will gladly move my business away from your company.

I am truly appalled by a response like this. Is this really the Namecheap CEO? I am sincerely glad I have never made use of your services (as a non-Russian, European citizen). By your logic, YOU should have acted against the (proxy) warfare the US is doing throughout the years.

I can understand the need for sanctions against belligerent countries, but this move seems worrying to me. As an American citizen, whose government kills innocent civilians all over the world with some regularity, I don't see how I could use Namecheap after this.

> Your leader/country is already killing innocent civilians/ukranians.

MY leader? Nice assumption, buddy.

Oh, if only the world were as simple as you pretend (or, worse: think) it is. Sanctions have never ever worked, historically. Just ask cubans. And "we lose money on this" hardly makes you right, just makes you look sillier yet.

Where were you with cutting off service of countries starting pointless wars when America invaded Afghanistan and Iraq?

Enjoy living in the stone age.

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