rmnc (u/rmnc) - Readit News

rmnc commented on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination · Posted by u/exizt88

jacquesm · 4 years ago

Agreed, but it beats having your country invaded, your cities shelled and starved. That's what is in the balance, compared to that you have a luxury situation.

rmnc · 4 years ago

That's the point. I'm not the one shelling another one's country, even so -- I'm doing everything in my power to prevent it. Instead, commercial service decides to capitalize their PR value on it, and decides to cause even more harm than already have been caused.

This cannot be justified.

rmnc commented on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination · Posted by u/exizt88

JumpCrisscross · 4 years ago

> should I die or be cancelled by the rest of the world?

You should not die. But you don’t have an inaliable right to thrive in your country.

Again, not trying to be a dick. War sucks. I am truly sorry you’re hurting. And I am not suggesting it’s your duty to join a resistance movement or whatever. But these are considerations and costs we must all weigh when our governments do horrible things. Most of the time, sadly, the world won’t care. We (America) have war criminals who should be in jail. But occasionally, the world gets horrified and rises to the occasion. Even that occasional threat is better than nothing.

rmnc · 4 years ago

This is a nice sentiment, but in the meantime, we're getting F'd for the actions we tried to stop. We failed, but we did the best we could, without resorting to violence.

I agree, this is not enough. But this is by no means an excuse to cancel an entire nation.

rmnc commented on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination · Posted by u/exizt88

jventura · 4 years ago

Portugal has 10M people, Russia has 146M, so 4x14,6=58,4.. A similar coup would result only in 58 deaths.. ;)

rmnc · 4 years ago

Mate, this is not something that can be quantified just like that. I have been to the Portugal once, and your people are very peaceful and friendly. I'm afraid this is not the case with rural Russia -- which means that any confrontation would be deadly and very, very bloody.

This is exactly why I'm doing what I can, but avoiding any violence. This is not the way we win this.

rmnc commented on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination · Posted by u/exizt88

JumpCrisscross · 4 years ago

> Is there any way I can still keep domains at Namecheap?

Use a Russian registrar. Or leave Russia. This sucks. War sucks. But I don’t see how anyone can continue doing business in Russia while maintaining a clean conscience.

rmnc · 4 years ago

OK. What should I do if I don't fall under a refugee description, don't have any immediate family in the EU, my diploma means nothing to EU, and have no bag of gold to immigrate illegaly?

This is me, plain and simple. I would like to immigrate, but I have no legal grounds.

Serious question, no gimmicks or laughs: should I die or be cancelled by the rest of the world?

Dead Comment

rmnc commented on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination · Posted by u/exizt88

sydd · 4 years ago

Sadly its either these actions or tanks. And if the west would send tanks to Ukraine it'd be WW3. Its the lesser evil now sadly.

rmnc · 4 years ago

Apologies for the language -- but are you mental?

I do get the idea of sanctions -- I'm legally prevented by publicly commenting on this due to some Russian law -- but I understand if a foreign business body has to terminate its business relations with a Russian one.

But kicking out paid customers just based on their nationality, knowing that they have no direct control over situation, and still blaming them for it? This is f**d up, I'm sorry.

rmnc commented on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination · Posted by u/exizt88

jventura · 4 years ago

> Overthrowing a dictator is an incredibly bloody undertaking.

Doesn’t have to be. We did it in Portugal some 50 years ago [1]! I think just four people died.. We have been living in democracy since then, joined the European Union, etc.. So, it is possible..

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution

rmnc · 4 years ago

Portugal is only 10.000 square kilometres bigger than one of the Russian's "oblast" (region) I grew up in, and has twice less people living in it than Moscow city residents.

This is why only four people have died. Death toll in Russia in case of a mass revolution would be tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands.

rmnc commented on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination · Posted by u/exizt88

orphea · 4 years ago

> thankfully, I was able to use other provider rather than nic.ru

May I ask you which one you transferred your domains to?

rmnc · 4 years ago

I would prefer not to disclose this due to concerns to my personal safety. Thank you for understanding.

rmnc commented on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination · Posted by u/exizt88

NamecheapCEO · 4 years ago

I'd be open to making exceptions in cases that are anti-regime.

rmnc · 4 years ago

So after five plus years of being a client, a private company will be deciding whether I'm worthy of their service or not based on whether I got my teeth kicked in during the protest actions for the past few days?

Should I e-mail some photos of my bruises left by police batons on my ribs? Or maybe I should kneel?

This is humiliating, and you know it. You're just making more problems and creating more danger for absolutely innocent people, just in spite.

This is the essence of cancel culture, now on a national level.

rmnc commented on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination · Posted by u/exizt88

raxi · 4 years ago

> your company has a lot of Ukrainian employees

That raises a question: how to find a domain registar without a lot of Ukrainian employees ?

According to the recent leak, Epik has them a lot as well.

Could we crowdsource such a list of registrars sorted by nationality of their employees to be prepared to the geo risks?

rmnc · 4 years ago

It is really hard to me to answer this. I was able to find a private Russian-based registar, which at least on the surface has no ties to the government or government-controlled entities and works with ICANN directly.

Other people are trying to move to Cloudflare -- but my banking cards are already not working, and I can't pay in USD for their services. Plus to that, even if somebody manages to move to Cloudflare or GoDaddy, there's no guarantee that they won't pull the plug as well.

u/rmnc

KarmaCake day148February 28, 2022View Original