[scrollaway]

So you found out how DMCA works and how much it sucks the hard way, eh?

You’re right it shouldn’t be the business of a domain registrar. But every provider in the chain that the copyright holders can reach to will end up responsible. You, the registrar, web host, ISP, everything.

Send your complaints to the US government and the copyright lobby. It’s a bullshit law. Namecheap complies with it because if they don’t, THEY get cut off by their own providers, and so on up the chain until the fines roll in.

[highclass]

My experience with namecheap is similar very bad too. They also sent me an email saying if you don't respond in a short time(24 hours) your domain will be revoked. Related experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14139288 I moved my domains from namecheap to gandi.net and so far no problems. I would avoid namecheap like the plague for any large site. Of note, I had millions of unique vistors per month on that domain for a normal legal site.

ycombinator uses gandi.net too.

and even if they obey us and internation laws, threating to revoke a domain within 24 hours if no reply regarding an external complaint, with just an email warning is ridiculous and not how other reputable domain registrars work.

[megous]

Why should it matter how many visitors you have? People with 3 visitors pay the same and can be also badly affected if the domain is yanked at a wrong time. Especially nasty if you run email on the yanked domain.

[highclass]

I agree with that. I was just emphasizing the livelihood of multiple people and a whole business depended on answering a email from namecheap within 24 hours due to an complaint they received.