Namecheap


Namecheap, Inc. is an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar, which provides domain name registration and web hosting, based in Phoenix, Arizona, US. Namecheap is a budget hosting provider with 11 million registered users and 10 million domains.

History

Namecheap was founded by Richard Kirkendall in 2000.
In March 2013, Namecheap started to accept Bitcoin as a payment method.

Advocacy

ICANN price caps decision

In July 2019, Namecheap was one of the organizations that filed a reconsideration request to ICANN asking to review the decision to remove price caps on.org and.info TLDs. As of September 2019, ICANN ignored such requests.