[MysticKnight]

I also got this email. How will this affect me?

I dont have any Russian domains/tlds, nor am I in Russia and never have been. I'm in England, born here and have lived here my whole life?

The only domains I have are ".xyz" , ".cam", ".pw" tlds. My hosting is from Hetzner in Germany.

I have zero links to Russia.

The email says in bold "If you hold any top-level domains with us, we ask that you transfer them to another provider by March 6, 2022."

Which makes it seem to me like you are saying it will affect me somehow?

[bombcar]

Even if they "handle" it correctly, it sounds like it is time to move your domains to someone who might not lash out as quickly.

[MysticKnight]

Yeah, I've just initiated transfers on all my domains with them just in case they dont get back in time before the 6th.

It was only 5 domains out of my 16 that I had with namecheap but its still not fun to do, plus the ~£50 of renewal costs I've had to stick on credit card that I wasnt expecting at the moment when they are due ranging from April to August.

I managed to transfer 3 to Google Domains and the other two which were unsupported moved to Porkbun, I've heard good things about them.

I hope the transfers all go smoothly, I really dont wanna lose the domains, luckily I'm not a business and the domains are all personal for projects, vanity emails etc so any potential downtime in the switchover wont have too much impact.

I have 3 accounts with Namecheap and it seems odd, only one was flagged and I have no clue why, it would be interesting to know how they are deciding this particular account is connected to "Russia", I checked all my account details and compared them, all identical with the exception of the email addresses used to signup but they are all from the same domain, so like [e-mail] , [e-mail] etc. The only logical explanation I can come up with is my username is "MysticKnightUK" and perhaps they are seeing the abbreviation "UK" at the end as "Ukraine" rather than "United Kingdom", but even that is a stretch as their ISO 2 letter country code is "UA", however their 3 letter code is "UKR". It's a complete mystery to me.

[NicoJuicy]

Response of namecheap CEO to a similar issue:

> You'll be fine, please contact us and we'll get you whitelisted. Point here if any confusion with our support team.

[MysticKnight]

I sent off a support ticket, hopefully they sort it out, I was already in the process of moving a domain out anyway and was considering moving the others as they are nearing expiry/renewal anyway in a couple months.

I usually use Google Domains, they've been pretty solid for the last few years, the only reason I used Namecheap to begin with was because they were so cheap but now its almost the same price as most places to renew and theres little incentive to stay.

[NicoJuicy]

I hope it works out, good luck.