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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, VPN |
URL | www |
Namecheap is an American domain name registrar [1] and web hosting company, based in Phoenix, Arizona. The company was founded in 2000 by Richard Kirkendall. [2] The company offers domain name registration, web hosting, SSL certificates, CDN, email hosting, privacy protection and other internet-related services.
The company provides domain registration, transfers, and renewals. Namecheap also provides web hosting services including shared hosting, VPS hosting, and dedicated servers. As of reporting in 2022, Namecheap manages over 10 million domains and has a customer base of nearly 11 million. [3] [4]
It was reported in April 2013 that Namecheap had begun accepting Bitcoin as a payment method. [5]
In August 2023, Namecheap launched Spaceship.com, a domain registration and web hosting platform. [6] As of 2018, it was the second-largest domain registrar globally, and by 2022, it managed over 18 million domains. [7]
On 15 February 2023, Delhi High Court ordered the Indian IT Ministry to block Namecheap and other domain registrars over cybersquatting and non-compliance with India's IT Rules, 2021. [8] [9] [10]
In July 2019, Namecheap was one of the organizations that filed a reconsideration request to ICANN, asking for a review of the decision to remove price caps on .org and .info TLDs. [11] [12] The Independent Review Process panel concluded in December 2022 that ICANN had broken its own bylaws and made recommendations which included restoring the price caps. [13] Namecheap went on to file a lawsuit in January 2024, claiming that ICANN “largely ignored” the majority of the recommendations. In October of that year, the Superior Court in Los Angeles ruled that the case could move forward, denying ICANN’s request to dismiss. [14] In April 2025, Namecheap filed a motion asking the courts to force ICANN into negotiating with registries over price control. Later in August, the court denied the motion ruling against the request. [15]
In February 2022, Namecheap announced that they would terminate services to Russian accounts due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, citing "war crimes and human rights violations". [3] Existing users were given a one-week grace period to move their domains. [16] The next day, the deadline was extended by another 2 weeks. If users did not move their domains, their websites became inaccessible, even if the domain registration period had not yet passed. The company also announced that it would be offering free anonymous domain registration and web hosting to all anti-war websites that engaged in protest in Russia or Belarus. [17] Namecheap reported in March of that year that it had over 1,000 employees located in Ukraine. These employees were predominantly residents of Kharkiv, which had been heavily impacted by the invasion at that time, according to Domain Incite. [18]