Namecheap

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What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “The moment this thing is back online we are moving off namecheap.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Reddit · 2026-08-13

• “Namecheap is ok for mediocre stuff and that is why I have used it for years”

  MIXED · Reddit · 2026-08-13

• “a power outage in phoenix puts namecheap completely down? i want my money back”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Reddit · 2026-08-13

• “I do wish Namecheap's Dynamic DNS support supported IPv6 though...”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-26

• “adding an entry to postgres instead of using namecheap gui" is overkill, just use a DNS with an API”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-25

• “I was a satisfied Namecheap customer. They offer good prices, a wide selection of available domains, their DNS management has everything you need, and their support team has helped me quickly on several occasions.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-24

• “I'm really sick of namecheap. They seem to never stop raising prices.”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-02-25

• “Can't even change my nameservers away from Cloudflare as Namecheap use Cloudflare!!”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-18

• “I renew it 5 years before expiry with a reputable domain registrar (NameCheap)”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2025-10-07

• “Namecheap support immediately refunded when I mentioned them I made a typo in the domain i bought.”

  POSITIVE · support · Hacker News · 2025-09-15

• “without switching away from Google to Namecheap for a few months, one wouldn't have much of an idea. And now I know.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-08-24

• “my DNS server being deregistered with Namecheap from serving as a personal DNS server”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-07-28

• “used to use NameCheap, Porkbun was kinda better, moved over to INWX cause EU option”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2025-07-23

• “Namecheap presently does not offer any sort of Dynamic DNS for IPv6 addresses”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-06-18

• “a never-registered domain gets picked up by some Chinese entity within 24 hours of me using namecheap to check if it's available. It took me years and hundreds of dollars to finally get that domain back.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-06-01

• “rising cost of .com renewal. It is around 17 USD in NameCheap”

  NEGATIVE · price · Reddit · 2025-05-18

• “namecheap or hostinger is a better option for domain purchase and hosting”

  POSITIVE · Reddit · 2025-05-15

• “manage email with namecheap ui dns is something I just don't want to deal with”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-05-10

• “For domains I like namecheap. They have two-factor authentication and a wide selection of domains.”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-09

• “I've personally tried to report phishing scams to Namecheap and get the laziest action on it (for example, I report 30 domains, and only one gets taken down and the rest + the account stay active) or totally ignored altogether after one or two exchanges.”

  NEGATIVE · support · Hacker News · 2025-05-05

• “namecheap had problems 10 years ago when they upgraded interface and something was wrong with dns srv records. So i had to move out to gandi at time”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-04-19

• “I use NameCheap for domain registration, web hosting, and email.”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-03-25

• “Namecheap is $14.95 renewal for me (I believe this is slightly discounted due to how many domains I have)”

  MIXED · price · Hacker News · 2025-03-15

• “I could just change the A records for specific servers in NameCheap and the CNAME records that point to those for the actual apps picked up on that and it was a pretty trivial migration”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-03-15

• “I reported the domain name to Namecheap, and in a few days, the site was down.”

  POSITIVE · support · Hacker News · 2025-03-13