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Namecheap buys Handshake blockchain domain '.s' for $750k (domainnamewire.com)
1 point by rvz on March 21, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Namecheap's CEO Richard Kirkendall is on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=NamecheapCEO

"Decentralized" doesn't go well with "I want to cut off my customers due to my political views and what I'm going to assume are their opposing political views".

Here he is 3 weeks ago responding after he sent an email to every current customer with the misfortune of having been born in Russia, telling them he is immediately canceling their hosting/email services and giving them a week to move their domains away:

> Your leader/country is already killing innocent civilians/ukranians [sic, should be Ukrainians]. They are putting it all on the line with their lives. They didn't ask for this yet they are dying for it. Change needs to come and the only way it can is for the Russian population to put it on the line as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505789




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