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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Namecheap users through our website.
- Domains (43%)
- Hosting (43%)
- Cloud Services (14%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Namecheap outage reports came from the following cities:
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Namecheap Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Tejas (@stejas809) reported- Claude = coding. ($20/mo) - Supabase = backend. (Free) - Vercel = deploying. (Free) - Namecheap = domain. ($12/yr) - Stripe = payments. (2.9%/transaction) - GitHub = version control. (Free) - Resend = emails. (Free) - Clerk = auth. (Free) - Cloudflare = DNS. (Free) - PostHog = analytics. (Free) - Sentry = error tracking. (Free) - Upstash = Redis. (Free) - Pinecone = vector DB. (Free) Total monthly cost to run a startup: ~$20 There has never been a cheaper time to build.
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Raunak Yadush (@raunak_yadush) reported* Claude = coding. ($20/mo) * Supabase = backend. (Free) * Vercel = deployment. (Free) * Namecheap = domain. ($12/yr) * Stripe = payments. (2.9% per transaction) * GitHub = version control. (Free) * Resend = email delivery. (Free) * Clerk = authentication. (Free) * Cloudflare = DNS. (Free) * PostHog = analytics. (Free) * Sentry = error monitoring. (Free) * Upstash = Redis. (Free) * Pinecone = vector database. (Free) Total monthly cost to run a startup: around $20. There has never been a more affordable time to build.
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eepy ๐พ (@theepiest) reported@Porkbun @that2art @Lunascaped no shade at you guys i've even used y'all before<3 i had great service too! but in this specific case i know what im talking. spaceship/namecheap will provide their 'Withheld for Privacy ehf' (i had a domain it expired) and for that same extension you guys say no whois privacy
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RGK๐น (@rgk_degen) reported1 prompt. Claude builds a $2,000/week website from scratch. Hereโs the exact system, step by step. Most people build sites the wrong way. They hire a developer for $3,000โ8,000. Wait 3โ6 weeks. Get something generic. Then pay another $500/month to maintain it. The new way: 1 prompt. 45 minutes. Launch-ready. WHAT YOUโRE BUILDING A niche service landing page conversion-optimized, Stripe-integrated, SEO-structured that targets a local or vertical market with $200โ500 average order value. Target: $2,000/week minimum by week 4. THE PROMPT ARCHITECTURE Your 1 prompt has 4 layers: โ Layer 1 Business context โIโm building a [niche] service site targeting [city/audience]. Average order: $[X]. Primary CTA: book a call / buy now.โ โ Layer 2 Stack spec โBuild in HTML/CSS/JS, Stripe Checkout embedded, Calendly widget for booking, Google Analytics 4 ready.โ โ Layer 3 Content skeleton โHomepage: hero with pain point + 3 benefits + social proof section + FAQ + CTA. No blog. No filler.โ โ Layer 4 Conversion rules โAbove the fold: 1 headline, 1 subheadline, 1 button. No nav clutter. Mobile-first. Load under 2 seconds.โ Paste all 4 layers into Claude as 1 message. Hit send. WHAT CLAUDE DELIVERS IN 45 MINUTES โ Full HTML file, production-ready โ Stripe Checkout flow embedded โ Mobile layout done โ Meta tags + OG data for social sharing โ Contact form wired to Formspree (free tier) You copy the output. Drop into Netlify or Vercel. Live in 8 minutes. Domain: $12/year on Namecheap. Hosting: $0. Total launch cost: $12. REALISTIC REVENUE PROGRESSION Week 1 Site live. Run $50 in Meta ads to local audience. 3 conversions at $150 = $450. Week 2 Add Google Business Profile. 2 organic calls. 1 closes. $200. Week 3 Raise price 20%. Run retargeting on the 60 visitors who didnโt convert. $600. Week 4 Email the 3 week-1 buyers. Ask for referrals. 2 referrals at $250 = $500 + repeat. Total week: $2,100+. The site didnโt change. The traffic system compounded.
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Berkay (@cankiranberkay) reported@Namecheap you guys have a really messed up bug. Since the support person doesnt know when its fixed im asking here. When you buy a domain like myโ-domain.com (with three โ-โ inside) you arent able to manage anything of the domain the page just says โupsโโฆ please fix this ๐๐ฝ
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ํ๋น | Hyunbin (@hyunbinseo97) reportedI didn't like Squarespace Domains, but they - support TLD not supported by Cloudflare Registar - the transfer price Namecheap is calling is absurd I guess I will have to stay for these two domains.
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Aditya๐ช๏ธ (@aditya4f) reported- Claude = coding ($20/mo) - Supabase = backend (Free) - Vercel = deploying (Free) - Namecheap = domain ($12/yr) - Stripe = payments (2.9%/transaction) - GitHub = version control (Free) - Resend = emails (Free) - Clerk = auth (Free) - Cloudflare = DNS (Free) - PostHog = analytics (Free) - Sentry = error tracking (Free) - Upstash = Redis (Free) - Pinecone = vector DB (Free) Total monthly cost to run a startup: ~$20 There has never been a cheaper time to build. Who's stopping you?
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Atta ๐ฌ (@attacomsian) reported@codewith55 Namecheap for buying. i spent years in the domain world, GoDaddy works but the upsells never stop.
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Can (@candirgen91) reported@Namecheap @isellgreatideas @Namecheap I received the same phishing email claiming there was a problem with my password. It redirected me to a fake Private Email login page. Many users got this at the same time. Could this indicate a security issue on your side? Please investigate
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Sanvi Rathore (@sanvi280304) reportedHas anyone used namecheap here, dm if you have I need help.
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One&OnlyAarav (@WaterAarav) reportedClaude = coding. ($20/mo) Shypmenta = deploys, connects, and manages every platform below($6/yr) Supabase = backend. (Free) Vercel = deploying. (Free) Namecheap = domain. ($12/yr) Stripe = payments. (2.9%/transaction) GitHub = version control. (Free) Resend = emails. (Free) Clerk = auth. (Free) Cloudflare = DNS. (Free) PostHog = analytics. (Free) Sentry = error tracking. (Free) Upstash = Redis. (Free) Pinecone = vector DB. (Free) Total monthly cost to run a startup: ~$20. Building has genuinely never been this affordable, and rarely this effortless either.
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adas๐งฆ๐น (@adastroworld) reported@PersonaIData Itโs been like $10 for the past 10 years so not terrible but yeah itโs just my custom email domain from namecheap Cloudflare allegedly cheaper so Iโm gonna transfer out
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NameBio (@NameBio) reportedSales With History ๐ Forthrightโคorg sold for $4,999 at Afternic - up from $12 in December 2018 at GoDaddy. ๐ QAHAโคcom sold for $4,440 at 313โคcom - up from $832 in May 2016 at NameJet. ๐ HydrationStationโคcom sold for $2,499 at Namecheap - up from $1,000 in January 2011 at Sedo. ๐ ClickVestโคcom sold for $130 at GoDaddy - down from $6,899 in January 2022 at NamePullโคcom. ๐ KnowYourMoneyโคcom sold for $1,475 at GoDaddy - down from $30,000 in April 2018 at Sedo. Yesterday's Word Cloud + TLD Breakdown ๐
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TheRealPomax (@TheRealPomax) reported@Namecheap The part where I type a postal code, and just because there's a space (which your JS should be able to verify is irrelevant) the form goes "FIX THIS VALUE IT IS WRONG" when in fact no, it is not: validate _after_ removing semantically irrelevant characters.
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Brian Lee Mayes โ โ๐ข๐ฒ๐โ ๐ข๐ฝ๐ป๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฎ (@BrianLeeMayes) reported@Namecheap Namecheap used to offer easy choices between 3rd party, now it's all convoluted. I have some research to do. Perhaps a service that doesn't outsource their tech support with people that don't know anything, except how to search a database. Adios, farewell.
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DNAccess (@dnaccess) reported@DancerA Network Solutions is 40%, GoDaddy 33%, and eNom 7% โ so those three alone account for 80%, and Network Solutions plus GoDaddy together are 73%. After that it drops into a long tail: Domain(com)~4%, then Moniker, Namecheap, and 1&1 IONOS at ~2% each, and some single cases at ~1%
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NameBio (@NameBio) reportedSales With History ๐ Pairsโคai sold for $29,000 at LamaDomainsโคcom - up from $961 in September 2023 at Whoisโคai. ๐ Beaatโคcom sold for $3,125 at Afternic - up from $10 in January 2020 at DropCatch. ๐ Kokoโคtv sold for $1,000 at Spaceshipโคcom - up from $30 in June 2021 at Dynadot. ๐ ParityNewsโคcom sold for $104 at DropCatch - down from $3,250 in June 2024 at Namecheap. ๐ QuakerCapitalโคcom sold for $256 at GoDaddy - down from $3,600 in May 2019 at NamePullโคcom. Yesterday's Word Cloud + TLD Breakdown ๐
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Snigdha Sur (@snigdhasur) reported@vivekteega @prbhtkumr @Namecheap Just so folks know their rights, a domain provider canโt shut down your domain globally without a proper court order, especially if youโre running a legitimate business. Thatโs why we won our TRO (temporary restraining order) to get it back
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Shant (@ShantDotMe) reported@Namecheap for the love of God, please do train your support agents a bit better. It is NOT OK for your agent to tell users to use an IP address, without a valid SSL certificate, to login!!!
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Mert Metin Tekdemir (@mertmetindev) reported๐ SaaS Stack โ โฃ ๐ Frontend โ โฃ ๐ React โ โฃ ๐ NextJS โ โฃ ๐ Vue โ โฃ ๐ TailwindCSS โ โ ๐ Shadcn UI โ โฃ ๐ Backend โ โฃ ๐ NodeJS โ โฃ ๐ Django โ โฃ ๐ Laravel โ โฃ ๐ FastAPI โ โ ๐ Express โ โฃ ๐ Database โ โฃ ๐ PostgreSQL โ โฃ ๐ MySQL โ โฃ ๐ MongoDB โ โฃ ๐ Redis โ โ ๐ Supabase โ โฃ ๐ Auth โ โฃ ๐ Clerk โ โฃ ๐ Auth0 โ โฃ ๐ Firebase Auth โ โฃ ๐ Supabase Auth โ โ ๐ NextAuth โ โฃ ๐ Payments โ โฃ ๐ Stripe โ โฃ ๐ Paddle โ โฃ ๐ Dodo Payments โ โฃ ๐ Lemon Squeezy โ โ ๐ Polar โ โฃ ๐ Emails โ โฃ ๐ Resend โ โฃ ๐ SendGrid โ โฃ ๐ Mailgun โ โฃ ๐ Postmark โ โ ๐ Amazon SES โ โฃ ๐ Storage โ โฃ ๐ AWS โ โฃ ๐ Cloudflare โ โฃ ๐ Google Cloud Storage โ โฃ ๐ Supabase Storage โ โ ๐ Uploadcare โ โฃ ๐ Deployment โ โฃ ๐ Vercel โ โฃ ๐ Netlify โ โฃ ๐ Railway โ โฃ ๐ Render โ โ ๐ AWS โ โฃ ๐ Domains and DNS โ โฃ ๐ Namecheap โ โฃ ๐ Hostinger โ โฃ ๐ Cloudflare DNS โ โฃ ๐ Google Domains โ โ ๐ SiteGround โ โฃ ๐ Analytics โ โฃ ๐ Google Analytics โ โฃ ๐ Plausible โ โฃ ๐ PostHog โ โฃ ๐ Mixpanel โ โ ๐ DataFast โ โฃ ๐ Monitoring โ โฃ ๐ Sentry โ โฃ ๐ LogRocket โ โฃ ๐ Datadog โ โฃ ๐ NewRelic โ โ ๐ UptimeRobot โ โฃ ๐ DevOps โ โฃ ๐ Docker โ โฃ ๐ Kubernetes โ โฃ ๐ GitHub Actions โ โฃ ๐ CI CD โ โ ๐ Terraform โ โฃ ๐ Search โ โฃ ๐ Algolia โ โฃ ๐ Meilisearch โ โฃ ๐ Elasticsearch โ โฃ ๐ Typesense โ โ ๐ OpenSearch โ โฃ ๐ AI Integration โ โฃ ๐ OpenAI API โ โฃ ๐ Anthropic API โ โฃ ๐ Replicate โ โฃ ๐ HuggingFace โ โ ๐ Gemini API โ โฃ ๐ Integrations โ โฃ ๐ Zapier โ โฃ ๐ Make โ โฃ ๐ n8n โ โฃ ๐ Pabbly โ โ ๐ Webhooks โ โฃ ๐ Security โ โฃ ๐ SSL โ โฃ ๐ Cloudflare โ โฃ ๐ WAF โ โฃ ๐ Rate Limiting โ โ ๐ Secrets Management โ โฃ ๐ Marketing โ โฃ ๐ Search Console โ โฃ ๐ Outrank โ โฃ ๐ Buffer โ โฃ ๐ Analytics โ โ ๐ Kit โ โ ๐ Customer Support โฃ ๐ Intercom โฃ ๐ Crisp โฃ ๐ Zendesk โฃ ๐ Tawk โ ๐ HelpScout
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yev (@itisyev) reported@Namecheap @digitalocean To be clear, I released the IP address as part of winding things down. I just finally noticed it got recycled
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tamimbuilds (@tamimbuilds) reported- Claude = coding. ($20/mo) - Supabase = backend. (Free) - Vercel = deploying. (Free) - Namecheap = domain. ($12/yr) - Stripe = payments. (2.9%/transaction) - GitHub = version control. (Free) - Resend = emails. (Free) - Clerk = auth. (Free) - Cloudflare = DNS. (Free) - PostHog = analytics. (Free) - Sentry = error tracking. (Free) - Upstash = Redis. (Free) - Pinecone = vector DB. (Free) Total monthly cost to run a startup: ~$20 There has never been a cheaper time to build.
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Shimazu.S (@ShimazuSystems) reported@robintel And also IONOS was abysmal for setting up DNS stuff (this is partly on Google/Firebase though), never had this issue with namecheap DNS
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NameBio (@NameBio) reportedSales With History ๐ Wyrdโคai sold for $3,250 at Spaceshipโคcom - up from $598 in July 2025 at Namecheap. ๐ BetFansโคnet sold for $2,500 at Afternic - up from $12 in October 2021 at GoDaddy. ๐ Globinโคnet sold for $1,000 at Afternic - up from $12 in August 2021 at GoDaddy. ๐ PeakCashโคcom sold for $1,009 at Dynadot - down from $1,688 in June 2023 at BuyDomains. ๐ HomePacโคcom sold for $891 at GoDaddy - down from $2,800 in May 2011 at Sedo. Yesterday's Word Cloud + TLD Breakdown ๐
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Edgex (@SahilExec) reported@YashHustle_22 I usually go with Namecheap, cheap prices and solid support.
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Friday (@friday_omoaka) reported@DNWE_com DNWE charges 15% commission on sales? What value or services do you provide to warrant such? This is just greed. Are you comparing yourself with Afternic with big distribution network? Spaceship with Namecheap distribution even charges 10% commission.
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SpamAuditor (@SpamAuditor) reportedWatch for emails pretending to be support at @Namecheap, thankfully NameCheap has good SPF records in place, fake storage is full emails. If you get one of these, tell your email administrator to tighten up their SPF checks.@DatalixDE IP address 45.11.229.]113 this time
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The DevOps Guy (@justdevopsguy) reportedThe new @Namecheap private email platform is supperrr slow... what are you guys using for your emails nowadays?
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NameBio (@NameBio) reportedSales With History ๐ 8Slotโคcom sold for $7,001 at GoDaddy - up from $12 in July 2020 at GoDaddy. ๐ Portetโคcom sold for $6,000 at Spaceshipโคcom - up from $129 in November 2015 at NameJet. ๐ Togโคcoโคuk sold for $3,500 at Afternic - up from $600 in February 2011 at Sedo. ๐ OneProdโคcom sold for $504 at GoDaddy - down from $5,000 in December 2015 at Uniregistry. ๐ VanityBagโคcom sold for $435 at Namecheap - down from $5,000 in February 2011 at Sedo. Yesterday's Word Cloud + TLD Breakdown ๐
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Christina Panina (@ChristinaPanin1) reported@justdevopsguy @Namecheap Hi! Christina, Private Email Product Manager here. Can you provide more details on where you observe the issue? We'll investigate with the team, as this is not how the service is supposed to work.