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Namecheap and aws

I'd advise against Namecheap (as a former many year customer) as they decided a while back to start taking a political stance as a business; they terminated existing customers, with no notice, because they disagreed with political actions of the customer's home country. Whatever country you live in could so something in the future they don't like and they'll just drop you, can't rely on them to act as a business.

How to say your a Russian national without saying your a Russian national.

Or they could just be a reasonable person sympathetic to the plight of ordinary Russians who don't really have any influence on Putin's government.

Do you also advocate for protests that only the protestors see that affect no one but the protestor's day?

Do you see both sides of this issue?

Irrespective of nationality I'm not sure a reasonable person would trivialise the invasion of the country the majority of Namecheap staff were based in as "political action...they don't like".

That's good to know. I'll stop using them.

> Whatever country you live in could so something in the future they don't like

When Australia invades a close neighbour and commits war-crimes against the civilian population, I will happily accept the closing of my Namecheap account.

No you wouldn't. You just say that because you think Australia won't do it. As soon as Australia does it you'll have a million reasons for why "It's Different™"

Australia doesn't have any close neighbours they are literally an island

So you think it's perfectly okay for a company to punish people for the criminal acts of their national government? I wouldn't expect such jingoistic garbage from commentators on s site like this. Also, I doubt you would accept if it was applied to you for being Australian. You claim differently, but likely you would complain, perhaps here, about how unfair and unjustified it was, which is reasonable. Unreasonable is being condescending to such a valid complaint from others because you're not in their shoes and it's easy to deride them for being some "other".

> (...) they decided a while back to start taking a political stance as a business; they terminated existing customers, with no notice, because they disagreed with political actions of the customer's home country.

Can you provide any concrete evidence that supports your personal assertion?

While I cannot offer concrete evidence, it's fairly easy to see that this could happen for Russian nationals or similar.

> While I cannot offer concrete evidence (...)

Because it doesn't exist, and you're making stuff up.

This is a euphemistic way of describing what happened when the customer's home country started the "political action" of bombing cities Namecheap staff were based in.

HN discussion including contributions from the Namecheap CEO is here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812

This is quite a misleading comment.

They gave notice: "Existing users were given a one-week grace period to move their domains.[12] The next day, the deadline was extended by another 2 weeks."

It is not a general political policy but a reaction against one nation that is literally threatening their employees' lives: "Namecheap at the same time said it had over 1,000 employees located in Ukraine, comprising most of its support staff mostly in Kharkiv".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecheap#Advocacy

A week or two before deleting is not really peace of mind for an average person who may not have gotten the email (no letters were mailed). Punishing unrelated groups of people including women and minorities was a political statement not an operational issue. Deleting customers domains did not make anyone safer.

It's horrible when companies choose to exert their agency.

Namecheap is horrible regarding legal threats and how they manage them. In my experience, they threaten to shutdown domains with 24 hours notice if you do not respond to legal threats. Although I avoided being shutdown, I almost didn't respond to such an email thinking the email from Namcecheap was spam. I highly recommend avoiding Namecheap for business.

Currently I migrated to Gandi with no problem.

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