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Type of business | Private |
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Founded | 2000 |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
CEO | Richard Kirkendall |
Key people | Richard Kirkendall (CEO) Hillan Klein (COO) Sergii Smirnov (CTO) |
Industry | Web service |
Services | Domain Name Registration, Web Hosting |
URL | namecheap |
Namecheap is an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar,[1] which provides domain name registration and web hosting, based in Phoenix, Arizona, US. Namecheap is a budget hosting provider with 11 million registered users and 10 million domains.[2]
History[edit]
Namecheap was founded by Richard Kirkendall in 2000.[citation needed][2]
In March 2013, Namecheap started to accept Bitcoin as a payment method.[3]
Advocacy[edit]
ICANN price caps decision[edit]
In July 2019, Namecheap was one of the organizations that filed a reconsideration request to ICANN asking to review the decision to remove price caps on .org and .info TLDs.[4][5] As of September 2019, ICANN ignored such requests.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ "InterNIC - Registrar List". InterNIC. 2017-04-23. Retrieved 2017-04-23.
- ^ a b Spadafora, Anthony (October 2, 2019). "Namecheap Review". Tom’s Guide. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
- ^ Bustillos, Maria (April 1, 2013). "The Bitcoin Boom". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 8, 2019.
- ^ McCarthy, Kieren (July 29, 2019). "Dot-org price-cap scrap latest: Now ICANN accused of snubbing registrars with 'sham' public comment process". The Register. Retrieved October 8, 2019.
- ^ Binder, Matt (August 9, 2019). "How the battle over domain prices could drastically change the web". Mashable. Retrieved October 8, 2019.
- ^ Karanicolas, Michael (September 14, 2019). "What Is the Purpose of ICANN's Comment Periods?". Retrieved October 8, 2019.