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by MysticKnight 1570 days ago
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 account1@domain.tld , account2@domain.tld 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.