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Namecheap provides services on domain name registration, and offer for sale domain names that are registered to third parties (also known as aftermarket domain names). It is also a web hosting company.
Problems in the last 24 hours
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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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Domains | 2 months ago |
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Namecheap Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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AgentNirmites (@agentNirmites) reportedI received my first cold email. This guy has a marketing technique, let me show you. It depends on your customer base (your market), but here is an overall idea. So, this guy provides social media marketing, website building, app building services. And he found me via ... My domain name! My domain has nothing hosted on it, but still... So, this guy seems to be scraping a whole bunch of social media accounts, reddit profiles, and subreddits too. So, he has 1000s (or even 10k s) of domain names listed. Now comes the magic part. He found contact details of all those domain names' owners. How? Every Domain Provider company like NameCheap @Namecheap (my favorite), (Square Space) @squarespace , Go Daddy (@GoDaddy ), and so on. All of they are, by law (by ICANN), required to allow people to contact domain owners via a web form. So, this guy has to just fill a web form to get to any domain owner. And for any reason, if you have a domain, you are doing something with it, if not, then you had an intention to do something... So, he fills all those web forms to get to the owners, (probably written by AI, or manually). In other words, he is kinda sending a cold email to all the potential customers. Good Trick, isn't it? You just need to find where your potential customers hangout, and somehow get their contact details. A lot of places require contact information, and they show it publicly, like Domain Name providers. Just fill a web form, run ollama qwen models to write the email too. For free. (BTW Qwen models are my favorite!) If you're a freelancer, doing marketing or web building, what are you waiting for? If you're a software engineer, go get your clients...
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Domayn Kapital (@domaynkapital) reported@Namecheap every few weeks there's a domain I win with non-functioning namerservers. 3-4 times in the last months. I contact support and they tell gaslight me telling me it's all fine. Waste 30 minutes until they call a specialist to fixt it. Please deal with this.
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NameBio (@NameBio) reportedSales With History 📈 Forthright․org sold for $4,999 at Afternic - up from $12 in December 2018 at GoDaddy. 📈 QAHA․com sold for $4,440 at 313․com - up from $832 in May 2016 at NameJet. 📈 HydrationStation․com sold for $2,499 at Namecheap - up from $1,000 in January 2011 at Sedo. 📉 ClickVest․com sold for $130 at GoDaddy - down from $6,899 in January 2022 at NamePull․com. 📉 KnowYourMoney․com sold for $1,475 at GoDaddy - down from $30,000 in April 2018 at Sedo. Yesterday's Word Cloud + TLD Breakdown 👇
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Fernando (@unfernaonx) reported@larsbuilds What’s that service? Looks good. I use namecheap and sometimes it feels like 2014 cPanel
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alencristen (@alencristen) reported@p_naix @spaceship maybe different managment team or something but honestly i'd stay away from anything namecheap related. very bad company
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Snigdha Sur (@snigdhasur) reported@vivekteega @prbhtkumr @Namecheap Just so folks know their rights, a domain provider can’t shut down your domain globally without a proper court order, especially if you’re running a legitimate business. That’s why we won our TRO (temporary restraining order) to get it back
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Ant Dawg (@216_Ant_713) reported@Samaytwt Namecheap has never failed me
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Pitch Market Strategies & Public Relations, LLC (@team_pitch) reported@digitalocean y’all left my company in a lurch, and now I’m looking to shift. Overpriced droplets in my opinion, horrible support, unless you’re paying $999 a month, in my opinion and a lack of uptime stability on smaller tiers in my opinion. @Namecheap VPS is lookin good.
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Matthew Belcher (@Trigun420) reported@Namecheap @JakawaEIWHunter Looks like it was taken down. Good work @namecheap
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Atta 🐬 (@attacomsian) reported@codewith55 Namecheap for buying. i spent years in the domain world, GoDaddy works but the upsells never stop.
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Hazard🚀 (@hazardayo_) reported@Namecheap Hello Namecheap Support, I am writing to follow up on my suspended account. I have already submitted the requested information and documentation. Could you please provide an update on the review status? I urgently need my account access restored so I can continue my work and meet an approaching deadline. Thank you for your prompt assistance.
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Domayn Kapital (@domaynkapital) reported@Namecheap every few weeks there's a domain I win with non-working namerservers. 3-4 times in the last months. I contact support and they tell gaslight me telling me it's all fine. Waste 30 minutes until they call a specialist to fix it. Please deal with this.
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Oleg (@olegbystrov) reported@Samaytwt Porkbun! Namecheap dropped my domain once, never again…
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Nihal Singh (@NihalThesis) reported$GDDY can sell you a .com. Namecheap can sell you a .com. Squarespace can sell you a .com. None of them runs .com. $VRSN does. Verisign operates the registry underneath them, the infrastructure that keeps track of registered .com domains and where they point in DNS. Thousands of companies compete for the customer. One company operates the layer underneath the market. The Backbone, Part 1 A new series on the businesses underneath the systems everyone else depends on.
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Vivek Teegalapally (@vivekteega) reported@prbhtkumr @Namecheap @snigdhasur Went through the Snigdha Sur case, it looks like there is some legality issue with their domain being used in India. Will read more to understand before making any judgement. Ps - I use namecheap for my website domain and it has worked great for me.
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Saint (@stjpg_) reported@guillemcraft Also FastVPN (basically namecheap VPN service) offer 1 year VPN for ~$12.
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Chris Ebert (@realchrisebert) reported@kopertop I’ll check those out. I was paying namecheap to do this, but their service wasn’t very good.
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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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Link Robins (@linkrobinsllc) reportedI've been a Namecheap customer for at least a decade... They're okay... But their VPS services are terrible. They run them on outdated architecture and the resources are very minimal. Better to go Hostinger for VPS.
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AI SaaS Launchpad (@AISaaSLaunchpad) reported@arvidkahl @Namecheap DENIC (.de registry) handles transfers differently than gTLDs—it requires real-time authcode validation via a direct registry connection, which Namecheap's backend integration doesn't support for inbound moves. The workaround is transferring to a registry with direct DENIC support (like Porkbun or Hetzner) and pointing DNS to Namecheap.
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Tejas (@stejas809) reportedGitHub — version control (free) Claude — coding ($20/mo) Namecheap — domain ($12/yr) Cloudflare — DNS (free) Vercel — deploy (free) Clerk — auth (free) Supabase — backend + database (free) Upstash — Redis (free) Pinecone — vector DB (free) Resend — emails (free) Stripe — payments (2.9% per transaction) PostHog — analytics (free) Sentry — error tracking (free) Total cost to run a startup: ~$20/month No servers. No DevOps team. No funding required. Just an idea and WiFi. There has never been a cheaper time to build. 🚀 Today is the best time to bet on yourself and build the things ⭐
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Paul Ogor (@PaulOgor_) reported@iam_Pentyberry @iamrichygold But if you want your domain as . Com only without adding ng then you say there's a problem there. Namecheap actually gives you free one month hosting anyways
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Rob (@RobGuerra90) reported@omarvvvr Namecheap all the way never had a problem in years and their customer support is on point
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Johnny Picante (@JohnnyPic51) reported@CertainLogicAI @buildwithmaya @Namecheap Agreed for the validation phase — cheapest thing that ships wins. Where a geo-TLD earns its keep is after you've got signal and want the URL itself doing some work (local SEO, word-of-mouth memorability) instead of just hosting code.
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Igor Luchenkov (@igorluchenkov) reported@solopribuilds Namecheap, never go daddy as it is more expensive
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Lg Shurley (@SurelyLg) reported@Namecheap #namecheap lost thousands of dollars today due to bad business. They refused to refund a purchase they made a mistake on. This violates a sacred covenant between business & customer. They are unethical and have forgotten what it means to appreciate a customer.#ethics
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NameBio (@NameBio) reportedSales With History 📉 HostCheap․com sold for $1,683 at Namecheap - down from $2,355 in January 2013 at Sedo. 📉 LifeLived․com sold for $786 at GoDaddy - down from $2,188 in November 2012 at Afternic. 📉 MindRevive․com sold for $483 at GoDaddy - down from $2,288 in August 2024 at BuyDomains. 📉 FinalClearance․com sold for $645 at GoDaddy - down from $3,650 in July 2018 at NameJet. 📉 OkBet․io sold for $6,500 at Namecheap - down from $34,988 in May 2024 at Afternic. Yesterday's Word Cloud + TLD Breakdown 👇
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Ramon J. Thomas (@RamonJThomasMBA) reported@AxxessInternet @WordPress I want to move my hosting from @Namecheap after 12 years to someone in South Africa, but it must have good international bandwith support bandwidth
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Rian (@Rian_Visser) reported@ItsKamranK You must use Cloudflare's nameservers for any domain registered or transferred through Cloudflare Registrar. No support for IDNs. No thank you, I do not have these restrictions and limitations with @Namecheap and will happily pay the increased fee to have control over my domain.
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Christina Panina (@ChristinaPanin1) reported@justdevopsguy @Namecheap Any additional information about the device or browser might help.