That rubs me the wrong way, and I'd rather not give my money to a company that thinks "hackers" are all criminals.
Edit: I got as far as checkout with a domain containing "hacker" so it looks OK on that front.
The problem: If you use their name servers, they install a wildcard record for the domain pointing at a crummy adspam page. You can override the wildcard record with your own, but not disable it completely, which is completely unacceptable.
Their explicitly stated reason for fucking over their customers is "we make more money this way". Which would be fine, but there's actually no way they'd be making even pennies on my domain, and they are actively reducing its utility by a much larger amount.
But more importantly, I don't see how this can possibly be an unfair criticism. They are providing a uniquely crappy service, and have shown what I consider to be a flagrant disregard for their customers by degrading their service for no benefit at all to name.com. It's stupid, it's evil, and it's bad business. Why in the world would I trust or recommend them?
(Just to be clear: I'm not complaining that there's a wildcard DNS record by default. Parking domains by default seems to be how everyone in the business works. I'm complaining about the fact that the wildcard DNS record stays in effect even after you configure the comain, and can only be disabled by defining your own bogus wildcard record instead. Basically it turns every user of their service into an unintentional typosquatter.)
I'd recommend.