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Comment by shiftpgdn | Hacker News Reader

Namecheap is significantly worse than Gandi and amongst the absolute bottom feeder domain providers. I'd recommend cancelling your transfer ASAP.

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What's wrong with namecheap?

There is nothing wrong with Namecheap as a registrar.

Some people have strong stances because they chose not to continue supporting Russian sites last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812

And yet for the last 5 years (recently confirmed it still happens) they have been calling themself "#1 Host Russia":-o

https://www.reddit.com/r/NameCheap/comments/7o0hid/transferr...

Found zero information about that other than that post.

Send a domain transfer request and see what happens.

No I don't feel like transferring my domain just to see if someone is right in a HN comment

Those two things are not mutually exclusive. They can be the #1 host while also enforcing restrictions (which have exceptions as per https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...)

A 5 year old link with a vague "confirmation" that it's still happening is not exactly damning evidence, either. They could have certainly considered themselves the #1 host until last year. A lot of things changed last year.

The "#1" wasn't the important part of that title.

I migrated away from Namecheap because it prevented me from logging in when I used a VPN (that was not Namecheap's own VPN). The company rep's response on HN was less than satisfactory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27705863

To be fair, namecheap support is completely ignorant and incompetent, so it's possible that support rep babbled nonsense and the HN commenter was correct

I'm already using freenom, namecheap, gandi and the big bad one which partnered with cPanel, godaddy.

Godaddy is the bottom feader, gandi was the best, but now with these prices I've switched.

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