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As much as I despise Facebook, it's great to have this kind of pressure put on NameCheap. When I first setup my own website many years back, I made the mistake of listing my email in plain text right on the main page. Fast forward years later and I think I've been added to every spam list possible. If it wasn't for exceptionally-aggressive email filters, I'd get 500+ spam emails a day.

In various times throughout the years, I'll run a WHOIS lookup on the last 1000 emails to have (attempted) to send me spam email. In 99% of cases, they resolve to a proxied NameCheap domain. I have submitted somewhere in the ballpark of ~800 domains throughout the years to NameCheap's abuse department. While they are timely in their "investigation", only about half of them are shuttered, and it's not clear to me if NameCheap is actually attempting to solve the problem as I strongly suspect there's a limited number of individuals behind the mass of nonsense domains used to spam me and likely countless others.




OK, but FB isn't suing NameCheap because domains registered through them spammed you.


My point was moreso that NameCheap appears willfully ignorant to abuses on their platform. As I am a nobody, I don't have the leverage to get them to solve these problems. Whereas Facebook suing them might introduce pressure on NameCheap to address abuse of their domains.




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