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Notably, they have been bought out by private equity.

> September 2025, CVC Capital Partners acquired a majority stake in Namecheap for an undisclosed amount, valuing the company at $1.5 billion.[3][4] Kirkendall stepped down as CEO on December 16, 2025

But prior to this they have had many incidents. Switched all domains to porkbun a few years ago

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OH no. This is really bad news. Gotta think of alternatives now. I never had a single hosting/software company that got better after being bought by PE. They got 1000x worse in a few months since PE take over.