alt Hacker NewsNamecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028037
Namecheap banned a few domain names purely based on an ambiguous tweet that got 6 likes
https://x.com/Namecheap/status/1489485337885921284
Namecheap suspended Imgur in 2013 for 1 CSAM image out of millions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5276648
Namecheap snipes your domains
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ofjcihen • today at 10:03 PM
Hilarious because namecheap is the number 1 provider of lookalike domains that we see in our incident response actions.
TZubiri • today at 8:42 PM
If your business strategy involves going with a vendor with 'cheap' in the name, that's probably the Root Cause of most issues that arise from that vendor
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A namecheap bug got my domain suspended: https://captnemo.in/blog/2026/05/05/namecheap-whois/
I'm planning to migrate out.