NameCheap

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NameCheap is a company that provides domain registration and other related services and is recommended by several IndieWeb members.

Features

• Free whois privacy protection (WhoisGuard) [1]

Criticism

Neocities Outage

On June 5, 2026, NameCheap temporarily took the Neocities domain offline. According to a statement from Neocities:

Our domain, neocities.org, was NOT listed in the provided court order document, but Namecheap took the report at face value and suspended the domain anyways, and told us "We have to resolve the issue with the complainant in order to have the domain unsuspended." [...]

So the legal firm that sent the complaint and us are both trying to get Namecheap to unsuspend the domain, but as of this writing, they have not responded to any of the requests and we are trying all means to get them to escalate this to a higher priority. [...]

The internet is increasingly becoming dangerous to operate on because of crazy laws and orders like this. A bunk legal complaint in one country, which we aren't even based in, aimed at one alleged infringement issue, has just been converted into infrastructure-level damage against an entire platform.

Ad Generator

• The company is offering AI products to help people make adverts.
  • capjamesg saw an announcement banner for one of NameCheap's AI products in the NameCheap dashboard.
  • https://www.namecheap.com/relate/ads/

See Also

• domain name registrar
• List of domain name registrars
• Spaceship new domain and webhosting platform Built by Namecheap