Namecheap Disrupting Itself with Spaceship
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That said, GoDaddy makes about half of it's annual revenue from it's 'core' business (domain name sales) over again in 'apps and commerce' (stuff you and I don't, but clearly many other less enlightened people want).
The 'A&C' segment grew 13% in 2023 as opposed to 2% of core business.
If Google had the guts to put a bunch of teams in a new company under alphabet with the explicit goal to disrupt Google Search via any means necessary they’d be in a much better positions today.
Real respect to Namecheap, this takes guts to commit too.
Moving forward with historical debt is very difficult and risky. However, at the same time, it also requires managers to have a clear understanding.
However, EasyWP also ultimately lost me because they just never implemented DMARC/DKIM/SPF or automatic backups. I’m on board with necessary cuts to legacy and ecosystem compat, but missing these features isn’t that, it’s just an incomplete website – and solving it with plugins and manually synced external services significantly detracts from the value prop. And I’m not seeing either feature explicitly advertised on spaceship.com.
They're doing pretty well. Reminds me of Linode.
This really just sounds like a veiled way of saying "our current brand has acquired a bad reputation and this is a way to get away from it".
If you run a search for a domain such as readingcomprehension.com:
Namecheap does show renewal prices; they also interchange it in the readingcomprehension.io with a "Retails at" price, which does not mean renew. Those are the prices that can change.
It's an easy miss.. before diagnosing a 'comprehension' critique and feeling entitled to the labour of others to convince you otherwise - double-checking the page (below the fold) might save you from the irony.
Clarity matters, both in web design and in critiques. I was hoping you might go do a search and read below the fold.
I think what you're wishing for is another line that indicates the price from year 2 on? I could see how being more explicit about what that "renewal price" means would help clear this kind of confusion up. I don't work at namecheap, I have no power over this kind of thing, I'm just interested to see where your confusion is and what would help with it.
Namecheap has two wordings under a price:
1) Renewal price
2) Retail Price (when the price is discounted).
In the case of #2, there is no clarity or guarantee that the price listed is the renewal price.
I'm no marketer but this sounds a bit generic for a brand name, specially compared to Namecheap.
I wonder if names like this perform better than more unique descriptive names, or it doesn't matter either way.
>we wanted to start building our next phase without any legacy limitations and a legacy codebase
I wonder if this means Namecheap will disappear in the future, getting completely replaced by this brand new Spaceship.
> 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.
Your question contains incredible entitlement. Namecheap's staff is mostly Ukrainian and located in Kharkiv, the city that saw combat on its streets, was almost encircled, and for more than two years has suffered under daily Russian shelling and missile attacks, death and destruction unleashed by Russians are everyday companions there. Do you think Germans had any moral right to demand continuation of services from the UK when Luftwaffe was bombing London? Or that Germans had nothing to do with the Nazi regime? Just incredible.
Everyone serving customers from Russia is complicit in helping the Kremlin keep up the illusion of normalcy: that nothing is wrong, that life goes on, that all you need to do is just shut off your mind and ignore the depraved war crimes that your society commits every day. And the crimes are indeed committed by the whole society: Putin alone is not building missiles, he is not programming their targets or piloting bomber planes, he is not manufacturing artillery shells, he is not on the frontline firing them at Kharkiv, he is not the one raping, looting and torturing - just like Hitler in his bunker was not waging the war against the whole world on his own, but required the overwhelming support of "ordinary Germans" to put his ideas into action.
And before anyone says that "ordinary citizens" can't do anything: then whose responsibility are the things that going on in a country? Are Argentinians responsible? Are Italians? Should the Swedes intervene and bomb Moscow to ashes to slap the society back into respecting basic human decency?