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- Legal Name: Namecheap, Inc.
- Website: namecheap.com
- Founded: 2000
- Founder(s): Richard Kirkendall
- Wikipedia: wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecheap
What is Namecheap?
Namecheap that was founded in 2000 by CEO Richard Kirkendall is an ICANN-accredited domain registrar and technology company. It is one of the fastest-growing American companies according to the 2018 Inc. 5000. With over 10 million domains under management, Namecheap is among the top domain registrars and web hosting providers in the world.
The domain registrar and technology company offers a full selection of popular and unique domains, along with fully featured hosting packages, SSL security certificates, WhoisGuard privacy protection. Namecheap has featured hosting plans for beginners, small and large businesses. Some of the Namecheap’s web hosting benefits are free hosting migration, 24/7 support.
Namecheap started to accept Bitcoin back in 2013. Namecheap’s customers can buy for hosting services and more with their Bitcoins. Additionally, the company accepts the Bitcoin payment method via BTCPay, in addition to PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express since September 2020. According to the official data from Verisig, Namecheap ranks third among the top domain name registrars.
Recent Namecheap News
Namecheap offering free services for anti-war websites
The world’s second-largest web hosting service provider, Namecheap announced that the company is now providing free anonymous domain registrations and ...
Namecheap terminates its services in Russia
Update: Namecheap contacted us and stated that the deadline for moving to another provider for Russian users is March 22. ...
Namecheap launched Namecheap Market for buying high-value domain names
With more than 20 years and 14 million domains currently under management, Namecheap continues to increase its market share within ...
Graphic design tool Stencil is acquired by Namecheap
With over 2 million customers, hosting more than 13 million domains worldwide, Namecheap is the world's second-largest domain provider. One ...
Namecheap launches FastVPN
The world’s second-largest domain registrar, Namecheap introduced its new product FastVPN. The popular hosting service provider introduced a new service that ...
Namecheap celebrates its 21st birthday with a sale
The world's second-largest domain registrar, Namecheap is celebrating its 21st birthday. The company, founded in 2000, became a popular hosting ...
Namecheap’s seven-day sale started for students and teachers with free offerings
Namecheap offers a free bundle for students to create a website, a free internet basics video class lesson for teachers, ...
Namecheap donates $10,000 to LGBTQ organizations
While June is officially known as Pride Month, Namecheap announced that the company is donating to LGBTQ organizations. Last year ...
Namecheap offers free 1 year sponsorship program for WordPress 18th birthday
Namecheap is celebrating WordPress's 18th birthday on May 27th, with hot deals and a free 1-year sponsorship offer. Calling on ...
Namecheap offering .LIVE domains for $1.99
The world's second-largest domain registrar and technology company for digital creators, Namecheap announced that the company is now offering .LIVE ...
Namecheap introduces Women’s Day contest
Namecheap announced that the company is celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8 with a contest. Namecheap and Radix are ...
Namecheap launches its website builder: Visual.com
Arizona-based domain name registrar, Namecheap announced the launch of Visual.com during the NamesCon conference. The announcement was shared by Teddy ...
Namecheap unveils most popular domain extensions
Domain extensions are an important part of a website's online identity and can affect its perception. Thus, popular domain name ...
Namecheap accepts Bitcoin payment via BTCPay
The popular and affordable web hosting providers such as Hostinger, Hostwinds, HosterBox have been accepting Bitcoin as a payment method. ...
Namecheap launches virtual class on internet basics
Domain registrar and online products and services provider unveiled a virtual class lesson aimed at students and online novices. The ...
ICANN announced the top 10 registrars
ICANN announced the top 10 domain name registrars. The report covers May of 2020 and .com namespace. According to the ...
Top 7 Web Hosting News: August 2020
We've brought together the most read Web Hosting news in August. Prolonged outage hits Namecheap hosting and email Namecheap, ...
Prolonged outage hits Namecheap hosting and email
Namecheap with over 11 million registered users and 10 million domains offers domain registration, hosting, private email services, and TLS/SSL ...
ICANN announced top domain name registrars
ICANN published the most popular domain name registrars report that covers January 2020. The report only includes .com domain extensions. ...
Namecheap launches Powered by Namecheap Program
Namecheap has introduced a sponsorship program named “Powered by Namecheap”. Powered by Namecheap intends to provide start-ups and SMBs with ...
Namecheap integrated Sedo’s fast transfer system
Namecheap has integrated Sedo MLS fast transfer. Sedo domains that are for sale were already listed on Namecheap but the ...