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Web Hosting Provider Namecheap To Ban Russia-Based Users, Citing Ukraine (pcmag.com) 136

Posted by msmash from the how-about-that dept.
Domain and web hosting provider Namecheap is terminating all service with the company's Russian-based users over the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine. From a report: "Unfortunately, due to the Russian regime's war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine, we will no longer be providing services to users registered in Russia," US-based Namecheap told Russian users in an email on Monday. The company is asking Russian users to transfer their domains to another provider by March 6. Otherwise their sites will resolve to a 403 Forbidden page. In addition, Namecheap has begun blocking Russian clients from using the company's web hosting and private email services over Russian internet domains, including .ru and .su. "While we sympathize that this war may not affect your own views or opinion on the matter, the fact is, your authoritarian government is committing human rights abuses and engaging in war crimes so this is a policy decision we have made and will stand by," the company added. The decision has caused some Russian users to complain they've been unfairly targeted. "Whoever came up with this idea is an idiot and should be fired," wrote one user on Twitter, who claims Namecheap is "blanket targeting" civilians, instead of going after Russia's government.
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  • Why not prison for Putin? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Someone who kills people will go to prison for life.

    Why can someone, who is supposedly acting as a national leader, kill other people, but not be put in prison?

    • putin needs to be taken out

    • 1.) Basically you are right
      - why not

      2.) But we should also put some company in, at least with G.W. Bush Jr. (unprovoked war, lied to UN, led to false UN Mandate)

      3.) Why has this not happened with Bush and will not happen with supreme leader Vladimir Vladimirowitsch Idiotowarish

      Because they are/were both leaders of States sitting on the biggest pile of World Ending Shit where the word "WMD" does not even fit it.

      -> Yes, reality is shit unjust and everything else, but you need to accept it.

      If Putin pushes

    • Simple... He has access to a nuclear arsenal, and a military that will try to protect him.

      Bringing him to justice, would be a painful and costly attempt. Where the less heroic, and pragmatic methods that we are trying now, seem to cause less overall damage.

      It really sucks, because we have to allow a lot of pain and suffering to happen, because trying too hard to stop it, will create orders of magnitude more suffering.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by gweihir ( 88907 )

      I agree. Together with the last few drone-murdering US presidents, obviously. But that is not going to happen. You can only jail people that a) you have and b) that are not protected by those in power.

  • The decision has caused some Russian users to complain they've been unfairly targeted. "Whoever came up with this idea is an idiot and should be fired," wrote one user on Twitter, who claims Namecheap is "blanket targeting" civilians, instead of going after Russia's government.

    Is the Russian government using Namecheap?

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      • "How are they missing the fact that their entire country is subject to massive comprehensive sanctions"

        They are paid to.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by HiThere ( 15173 )

          That's a reasonable guess, but it could well be an honest complaint. This doesn't mean it should be accepted, but people are often self-centered enough to ignore the reasons why something bad is happening to them, and just complain about the bad thing happening.

      • In that situation, there would be a large part of the US shouting: USA, USA, USA! People would do ridiculous things as rename French fries to freedom fries. President would say: either you are with us or against us. Guys, the US is definitely not Russia. But it does a fair share of ugly things. Trump was a nightmare.

      • Possibly because the news media is tightly controlled in Russia, and there are very few media sources reporting what is happening, they're not highly popular, and when they do report "hey there's a war, your kids are dying over there" they suddenly go dark.

        • Comment removed based on user account deletion

          • But imagine what the people are thinking if all they see is state controlled media. "Why are the Americans picking on us? All we're doing is attacking the evil Nazis next door who are joyfully welcoming our brave soldiers!"

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Bert64 ( 520050 )

        No that makes russian users the victims of propaganda...

        People notice that something bad is happening, but they don't automatically know why it's happening. Putin controls most of the media in russia, and the putin controlled media is blaming the west, as well as blaming "nazis in ukraine".
        The more bad things you do to average russian people, the more evidence you provide that putin can use to convince his people that the west is against them.

        If the state controlled russian media is your only source of medi

        • Most sane people absolutely would support a war against nazis who are coming to exterminate them, but most russians would not be supportive of a war of aggression against their soviet brothers in ukraine.
          The key goal here should not be to punish russians, but to expose them to the truth.

          Um, they're exposed. It's called the Internet.

          Hence all the Protests in Russia.

          Putin is a 1960s autocrat, using outmoded 1960s propaganda and warfare techniques that are largely ineffective against a populace with 21st Century global communication technologies.

          TL;DR

          Putin is long past his Use or Freeze by Date.

  • Namecheap is "blanket targeting" civilians, instead of going after Russia's government.

    All is fair in love and war. ....and Dostoevsky sings the blues.

  • No sympathy (Score:2, Troll)

    by RobinH ( 124750 )
    Yeah, I'm sorry. Russia is busy invading their sovereign neighbour, firing rockets into civilian areas, and every death whether civilian or military is completely unjustified. If Ukraine had rockets capable of the range they'd be completely justified firing them at Moscow right now (I don't believe they actually would, of course). So a domain registrar is saying "we won't host Russians", and the Russians are claiming to be victims? No way. Russian tax money funds their government and military. Russian
    • So if Trump gets re-elected and goes banananas we should do the same to the US? A majority voted him in so the people are responsible. So we completely sever ties to the US until the people work it out. No chips from TSMC for starters... That's pretty totalitarian. Putin applauds you for understanding how things work.

      • Yes. If Trump or Biden would invade Mexico in a war of conquest then the same standard should apply.

        • So... if the US invades a country under a false pretense the international community needs to do the same.
          Did Bush junior find the weapons of mass destruction yet in Iraq? I lost track of that.
          • You see, it is no simple black and white situation.
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            • The US is more powerful than Russia, and most of the international community will kiss up to them, they fabricated evidence of mass destruction and invaded a country, people died. The US is also more of a democracy than Russia so the people are far more responsible than Russians (which in my opinion is still insignificantly so, they where lied to). If you openly oppose Putin in Russia you are likely to disappear. While sanctions should be used to make it so it is difficult as possible for Russia to wage war

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by RobinH ( 124750 )
            I 100% agree that the US had no valid justification to invade Iraq (after Afghanistan) and I said so at the time. Sanctions against the US would have been appropriate at the time. The US had a lot of sympathy from the global community after 9/11, but even then a lot of countries refused to get on board with the Iraq invasion. The UN voted against it. The US created a "coalition of the willing" which was a bit of a joke. Their claim was that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, which most everyone was

      • If America invades someplace then sure, treat us the same way. Except mostly when we do it we have other nations on board for reasons other than expecting us to invade them next.

        • You're right. But if it would happen we'd be better of supporting the people, or at least try to avoid collateral damage.
          US, we love you, I just get "on my horse" as they say here when people make ruthless extreme statements.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by RobinH ( 124750 )
        Yes, and I am not American, by the way. I was pro-Afghanistan invasion because al-Qaeda was operating out of Afghanistan, but anti-Iraq invasion because there was no valid justification for the US to go into Iraq, the "WMD" excuse was not convincing, Saddam was contained, and I said so at the time.

      • Yes, dumbass.

  • So we need to punish the regime. But try not to hurt the Russian people too much. This seems a bit over the top. I don't think the regime cares about namecheap.

    • The regime has already shown they don't give one tiny little shred of a shit about the people. How anyone thinks punishing the common citizen will affect a regime that barely even notices they exist is beyond me.

      • The regime has already shown they don't give one tiny little shred of a shit about the people. How anyone thinks punishing the common citizen will affect a regime that barely even notices they exist is beyond me.

        Russian citizens are not facing death like their counterparts in Ukraine. I'd say they are getting off pretty easy as far as being at war goes.

        • Sure, they are getting off easy compared to Ukraine citizens, but a lot of Russian citizens have friends, family, or lovers in Ukraine. I don't think there's any reason to go after citizens that didn't want this war to begin with, but I realize the world is hell-bent on everything being a hardline all-in or all-out and there can be no shades in between these days. How does punishing people that the Russian government doesn't care about send a message to the Russian government? I mean, the only possible t

          • How does punishing people that the Russian government doesn't care about send a message to the Russian government? I mean, the only possible thing it will accomplish is maybe, MAYBE pissing off the citizens enough to attack their government.

            ONLY the Russian people can remove their government. We simply can't do it, we can only encourage them. And there is no way to remove Putin and the oligarchs wealth without such collateral damage. We leveled entire German cities fighting the Nazis in WW2. They are still getting off easy.

            • So we force them to? Give them no alternative? Ok but then we need to stop pretending we are a democracy.

              • So we force them to? Give them no alternative? Ok but then we need to stop pretending we are a democracy.

                We are not forcing them to do anything, we are simply adding the real cost of their despotic government to their lives. Kind of like making consumers of fossil fuels pay the full cost of CO2 produced. It is a tax for fucking up the world.

          • the only possible thing it will accomplish is maybe, MAYBE pissing off the citizens enough to attack their government. Not that it can't happen, but that's a very dangerous proposition in a modernized country with some fairly sophisticated weaponry at their disposal.

            Why?

            He can hardly Nuke his own Country. And, after a very short time, even the most hard-line Russian military men will get tired of firing-on their Grandma's Moscow Apartment Building.

  • Itâ(TM)s bad luck losing your internet website. Having your car run over by a Russian tank with your spouse and children in the car is worse luck.
  • In this case we have a private company which refuses to give service to a whole country because of its brutal, shameful aggression against another country; I'm OK with this. Russia must feel the pressure and get that it's not OK to invade other nations, commit war crimes and other atrocities, and threaten peaceful countries with nuclear weapons.

    However, I've also seen single individuals getting fired in Europe because they were Russian and "refused to renounce Putin" (an action which, by the way, could be d

  • The ".su" domain is not russian, it represents the former soviet union. Until recently in order to register one, you had to show ID from a former soviet state so while i'm sure many domains are owned by russians, there are also .su domains belonging to people from other countries including ukraine.

  • like in Uzbekistan, because they think Uzbekistan is part of Russia?

    https://www.reddit.com/r/mildl... [reddit.com]

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