united states area served worldwide founder s richard kirkendall key people richard kirkendall founder & ceo mohan vettaikaran cto matthew russell vice president hosting industry web services products domain names web hosting whoisguard ssl certificates slogan s address your life website www.namecheap.com alexa rank 2 063 june 2016 update 1 namecheap is an icann accredited domain name registrar and web hosting company based in los angeles california . it claims to have over 5 million domain names under management . 2 3 contents 1 history 2 anti sopa advocacy 3 references 4 external links history edit namecheap was founded by richard kirkendall in 2000 . 4 in november 2010 it was voted the best domain name registrar in a lifehacker poll . 5 again in september 2012 it was voted as most popular domain name registrar in lifehacker polls . 6 in march 2013 namecheap announced that bitcoin would be accepted as payment . 7 in may 2014 namecheap was put on notice due to a breach of their registrar accreditation agreement with icann . 8 in recent years namecheap has developed a reputation as spam haven ignoring spam reports . 9 10 11 12 despite being icann accredited since december 2007 namecheap has not been registering domains directly but has instead been reselling domains registered through enom . 13 as of 2015 namecheap is gradually switching to registering domains using their accreditation . anti sopa advocacy edit namecheap maintained a strong anti sopa position . 14 15 after the pro sopa position of major registrar godaddy caused massive calls for the boycott of godaddy on reddit namecheap announced move your domain day for december 29 2011 offering a reduced price with the coupon code sopasucks and declaring that it would donate 1 from each domain transfer to it to the electronic frontier foundation . 16 later namecheap accused godaddy of being in violation of icann rules causing delays with domain transfers from godaddy to namecheap 17 an allegation which godaddy contested . 18 internet portal references edit namecheap.com site overview . alexa internet . retrieved 2016 06 14 . about us . retrieved 2016 10 13 . namecheap reaches 5 million domains under management . 2016 06 15 . retrieved 2014 02 08 . about us our team . retrieved 2014 02 08 . fitzpatrick jason 2010 11 09 . best domain name registrar namecheap . lifehacker . retrieved 2014 02 08 . henry alan 2012 09 18 . most popular domain name registrar namecheap . lifehacker . retrieved 2014 02 08 . tamar 2013 03 05 . namecheap now accepts bitcoin . namecheap . retrieved 2014 02 08 . namecheap gets slapped by icann . 2014 05 03 . retrieved 2015 08 10 . namecheaphosting spamcop reporting help . retrieved 2015 04 07 . namecheap why i m moving away from them . retrieved 2015 07 06 . namecheap supports spammers . retrieved 2015 07 06 . redirect spams sponsored by namecheap . retrieved 2015 07 06 . namecheap.com forums view topic change namecheap domain from enom to namecheap as registrar . 2008 07 13 . retrieved 2015 08 10 . tamar 2011 12 22 . we say no to sopa our official stance . namecheap . retrieved 2014 02 08 . weber harrison 2011 12 27 . namecheap cashes in on sopa with moveyourdomainday . the next web . retrieved 2014 02 08 . mitchell jon 2011 12 27 . namecheap pokes go daddy over sopa with 1 eff donations . readwrite . retrieved 2014 02 08 . namecheap accuses godaddy of stalling anti sopa defections . electronista.com . 2011 12 26 . retrieved 2014 02 08 . lord timothy 2011 12 27 . the godaddy saga continues . slashdot . retrieved 2014 02 08 . external links edit official website v t e website management concepts overselling web document web content web content lifecycle web hosting service web server webmaster website governance web hosting control panels comparison alternc cpanel directadmin domain technologie control gnupanel h sphere i mscp interworx ispconfig kloxo kloxo mr plesk usermin webmin top level domain registries afilias centralnic cira donuts 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