I, for one, will be moving my own personal domain to Namecheap at next renewal. This is a political issue, and I am on the side of sanctioning the invader.
Putin and friends are doing just fine under sanctions. They expected sanctions for a long time.
This effectively does nothing except make the lives of the non invaders harder.
If you actually want to help Ukraine pick up a gun and go fight.
Yes, economic sanctions have limited potential to actually topple a totalitarian leadership. With Russia, the concern goes deeper. This country is armed to the teeth and poses a massive threat to Europe. Hence, the point of these sanctions is very much to also weaken the Russian economy and curb its capacity to finance more wars.
The problem is that many of those who use namecheap are already against the regime because they know English, have access to another point of view on actions taken by the regime in Ukraine.
Fucking them up may turn some of them back to the regime because current narrative of the propaganda is "West companies do not care about you and they will do everything in their power to screw you".
People don’t protest when they’re struggling to make ends meet and civil institutions are weakened.
The only effect of the inhumane economic sanctions has been tightening the ruling class’s grip. They did not work in Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, not even Syria. They have however caused enormous human suffering.
That said, I think you’re very wrong about this: “ People don’t protest when they’re struggling to make ends meet and civil institutions are weakened.”
I believe most revolutions are a result of “struggling to make ends meet”.
e.g. First example I could think of extreme struggle leading to revolution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution, another more relevant example where extreme struggle led to revolution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution, and history has a lot more (the US from the UK, India from the UK, the UK from the UK - i.e. the Magna Carta). Meanwhile, sadly history has almost zero revolutions where the population wasn’t suffering.
I’ll say again tho. This is me pointing out examples from history. I don’t like or enjoy that the world works the way it works.
Putin is with a democratic party. Do you know how big it is? It's more than half the country.
Now, waking up in this context means civil war.
Killing people is better than inconveniencing regular folks?
Even if you were of that opinion and if namecheap ceo were to do that, it would most likely have less of an effect than what he just did.
She was opposing Putin's power with everything at her disposal. So 'sanctioning the invader' will kill her.
Sanctioning namecheap users will not hurt Putin at the slightest. It will hurt people who are opposing him, so instead of protesting Putin - and IT people are the most of protesting group of Russians - they'll have to worry about their projects and having food. Good job, namecheap and their supporters.
I won't be trusting namecheap ever again after this. Also, targeting groups of people by their nationality, without individual guilt is something that fascists do.