Namecheap

Namecheap Inc.
Type of business Private
Headquarters Los Angeles, California, United States
Area served Worldwide
Founder(s) Richard Kirkendall
Key people Richard Kirkendall
(Founder & CEO)
Mohan Vettaikaran (CTO)
Matthew Russell
(Vice President, Hosting)
Industry Web services
Products Domain Names, Web Hosting, WhoisGuard, SSL Certificates
Slogan(s) Address your life!
Website www.namecheap.com
Alexa rank Increase 2,063 (June 2016)[1]

Namecheap is an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar and web hosting company, based in Los Angeles, California. It claims to have over 5 million domain names under management.[2][3]

History

Namecheap was founded by Richard Kirkendall in 2000.[4]

In November 2010, it was voted the best domain name registrar in a Lifehacker poll.[5] Again, in September 2012 it was voted as "Most Popular Domain Name Registrar" in Lifehacker polls.[6]

In March 2013, Namecheap announced that Bitcoin would be accepted as payment.[7]

In May 2014, Namecheap was put on notice due to a breach of their Registrar Accreditation Agreement with ICANN.[8]

In recent years, Namecheap has developed a reputation as spam haven, ignoring spam reports.[9][10][11][12]

Despite being ICANN accredited since December 2007, Namecheap has not been registering domains directly, but has instead been reselling domains registered through eNom.[13]

As of 2015, Namecheap is gradually switching to registering domains using their accreditation.

Anti-SOPA advocacy

Namecheap maintained a strong anti-SOPA position.[14] [15]

After the pro-SOPA position of major registrar GoDaddy caused massive calls for the boycott of GoDaddy on Reddit, Namecheap announced Move Your Domain Day for December 29, 2011, offering a reduced price with the coupon code "SOPASucks" and declaring that it would donate $1 from each domain transfer to it to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.[16]

Later Namecheap accused GoDaddy of being in violation of ICANN rules, causing delays with domain transfers from GoDaddy to NameCheap,[17] an allegation which GoDaddy contested.[18]

References

  1. ↑ "namecheap.com Site Overview". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
  2. ↑ "About Us". Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  3. ↑ "Namecheap Reaches 5 Million Domains Under Management". 2016-06-15. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  4. ↑ "About Us - Our Team". Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  5. ↑ Fitzpatrick, Jason (2010-11-09). "Best Domain Name Registrar: Namecheap". LifeHacker. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  6. ↑ Henry, Alan (2012-09-18). "Most Popular Domain Name Registrar: Namecheap". LifeHacker. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  7. ↑ Tamar (2013-03-05). "Namecheap Now Accepts Bitcoin". Namecheap. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  8. ↑ "NameCheap Gets Slapped By ICANN". 2014-05-03. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  9. ↑ "namecheaphosting - Spamcop Reporting Help". Retrieved 2015-04-07.
  10. ↑ "Namecheap: Why I'm moving away from them". Retrieved 2015-07-06.
  11. ↑ "Namecheap supports spammers?". Retrieved 2015-07-06.
  12. ↑ "Redirect spams sponsored by Namecheap". Retrieved 2015-07-06.
  13. ↑ "Namecheap.com Forums • View topic - Change Namecheap domain from eNom to Namecheap as registrar?". 2008-07-13. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  14. ↑ Tamar (2011-12-22). "We say NO to #SOPA (our official stance)". Namecheap. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  15. ↑ Weber, Harrison (2011-12-27). "Namecheap cashes in on SOPA with MoveYourDomainDay". The Next Web. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  16. ↑ Mitchell, Jon (2011-12-27). "Namecheap Pokes Go Daddy over SOPA with $1 EFF Donations". ReadWrite. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  17. ↑ "Namecheap accuses GoDaddy of stalling anti-SOPA defections". electronista.com. 2011-12-26. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  18. ↑ Lord, Timothy (2011-12-27). "The GoDaddy Saga Continues". Slashdot. Retrieved 2014-02-08.


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