Comments on: I retract any recommendation of domain registrar NameCheap

By: SKS

SKS — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:11:23 +0000

Namecheap very decent and good dns host. Maybe it had problems in 2008 but my opinion is that from 2009 they are perfect. Never had a single problem with them.

I rather wouldn’t trust scammers like servage with my domain…

By: Curt Monash

Curt Monash — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:39:22 +0000

What’s your evidence for these allegations?

By: jim abernathy

jim abernathy — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:37:11 +0000

Namecheap is a domain thief. What you type in they steal. The company is linked to a huge criminal organization. Their goal is to acquire domains not to make money off of selling or hosting them. They like to host because they can see what you are doing. Being a registrar, they have access to change creation dates and so domains can be artificially aged for Google rankings. They don’t do it for customers. It is for their own huge network of sites. Namecheap is basically a loss leader for a huge criminal web enterprise.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:16:59 +0000

I had same issue as Andrew – support keeps saying their DNS servers are under DDOS attack – come on!

Whether it’s an attack or not, aren’t they supposed to protect themselves and thier customers from that crap?

I’m looking for other options now!

We sent different marketing pieces with URL forwards, now they don’t work and we look like crap and are losing lots of money!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:07:29 +0000

NameCheap is terrible. I really, really don’t recommend using them, especially if you use domains to mask your affiliate URLs or for example to grab the identical .net, .org, etc. domains in order to protect your main .com one.

Twice this year their nameservers were “under a ddos” attack which made redirection (URL redirection or CNAME) not work at all (once for ~4 days, other time for a day). All my affiliate links were down, and so were my blogs hosted on blogger and using a CNAME to park the domain.

By: Darin

Darin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:27:28 +0000

I have had very good experiences with NameCheap. At one point I had over 100 domains with them and never had any problems with any of them. I found the ui fairly easy to navigate (it’s much easier than GoDaddy in my opinion).

By: DW

DW — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:33:22 +0000

GoDaddy will try to extort $199 out of you if they “think” you are doing something against their TOS. IMHO stay away from GoDaddy – they try to act as a web host even if you aren’t using them for that.

By: Graham Lauren

Graham Lauren — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:58:03 +0000

I have had nothing but problems with them for the last couple of months and they seem unable to fix a damn thing, even the most simple email redirects. They have someone, in charge apparently, although you wouldn’t believe it from his seeming inability even to want to solve the customer’s problems, who seems to show no initiative and once you confront him, asks you to take your business elsewhere. Their systems might seem poor, but their service and attitude to customers is far, far worse. I’d like to be able to document the trouble I have had with this business in great detail and let every one of the company’s investors, lenders and insurers know just how inept they are, in my experience.

By: Fran

Fran — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:03:04 +0000

I wouldn’t trust my domain or website to NameCheap for anything in the world as they register and harbor spammers on their parking servers… ie http://www.park-your-domain.com dns servers. So if you’re reading this, go somewhere else where the service is better. Namecheap.com is doing what they do best… they’re cheap and non caring!

By: Curt Monash

Curt Monash — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:51:20 +0000

Actually, it seems as if the errors were in getting data from the Network Solutions database. Those are pass-through queries; NameCheap doesn’t host the information itself.

Basically, their UI had a couple of nasty screwups.