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> NameCheap are positioning themselves as heros here

They have a history of jumping on various issues for marketing purposes. They got a lot of there core users by going against the founder of GD and spamming reddit with anti GD comments.

If you want a good registrar with free whois privacy (that is easier to manage than NameCheaps) and better prices, go with NameSilo

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I don't think it's simply marketing purposes. They actually try to make a different and impact. On .ORG they filed an official complaint with ICANN because they could as a registrar. Their CEO has been in the domain industry I think over two decades now and actually cares about it. What's good for consumers buying domains is good for NameCheap I'm sure.