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Namecheap is the worst company possible for this, because it's trivial to trick them into removing domains. Here's a reminder that a troll managed to get them to remove domains, through Twitter, by claiming that they were run by Russians.


Could you back that up? The irony of anyone accepting that Namecheap fell for a "trust me bro" with a source of "trust me bro" is funny, but I'd also like to read more


Can't find the one about Russians, but I found one where a troll was reporting random sites for being "possibly suspicious", which were all falsely taken down without investigation (https://web.archive.org/web/20220204063105/https://twitter.c...).




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