We are proud to announce the launch of our new TOTP 2FA (that’s Time-based One-Time Password algorithm two-factor authentication to the uninitiated). What Is TOTP 2FA? Put simply, two-factor authentication is a measure to ensure the person attempting to log in to an online account is the person who owns it. This is done by … Continue reading Protect Your Account with TOTP 2 Factor Authentication
No company likes an outage. At Namecheap, we do everything in our power to maximise availability and uptime, while minimizing downtime because we understand the disruption it causes to you and your business. What happened on November 13 Unfortunately on November 13, at approximately 5 AM UTC, we experienced a major outage caused by a … Continue reading Statement on the Namecheap Outage, November 13th
The season for giving is upon us, and Namecheap is happy to announce our partnership with the .uk registry, Nominet, in pursuit of our combined goal to support disadvantaged youth in the United Kingdom. During the months of October and November, Namecheap and Nominet will each donate £1 for every .uk domain registered to BBC … Continue reading Namecheap and Nominet Help BBC Children in Need
We are thrilled to announce that Namecheap has acquired Launchaco, a website builder platform that makes launching a site a seamless process. Launchaco allows for the creation of beautiful, clean websites that are also optimized for mobile. We loved the simplicity that the product brings to the creation of websites, and believe that the expertise … Continue reading Namecheap Acquires Launchaco Website Builder
Dear customers, Today we experienced an issue on our website that impacted customers who were trying to manage their products in our Account Panel. This was the result of an expired SSL certificate for our Account Panel. We have since investigated how this happened, and we want to be completely open about what went wrong. … Continue reading Namecheap Account Panel Issue
Dear customers, We’ve heard you loud and clear. Our last implementation of 2FA, using Authy OneTouch matched to our proprietary app, was not well-received by many of you and did not serve you in the way many of you preferred to use 2FA. While we had good intentions, we took a chance on what we … Continue reading True TOTP 2FA and U2F Are Coming
An app that can diagnose skin cancer? Software that predicts the length of your hospital stay? These were just a few of the apps in the running for the Namecheap Innovation Award. MedHacks is organized by students at the renowned Johns Hopkins University. It’s billed as ‘the world’s premier medical hackathon’. Participants are challenged to … Continue reading MedHacks: How 800 Students Built Health-Related Apps
Andrew Alleman from Domain Name Wire was given an exclusive interview with Rick Kirkendall, Namecheap’s CEO. As Namecheap hits 10 million domains under management, it seemed like a good time to talk about the growth and evolution of the company. The Interview – Re-published From Domain Name Wire DNW: For a long time, you were … Continue reading Rick Kirkendall Talks About Reaching 10 Million Domains
Namecheap has reached a significant milestone – and just a month before our 18th birthday. We now have 10 million domains under our management. That’s a large portion of the Internet looked after by Namecheap! In just 18 years, we’ve gone from being a small tech startup, to the second biggest retail domain registrar in … Continue reading Namecheap Celebrates 10 Million Domains
To all our .uk domain customers out there, we know it’s been a bit of a bumpy road recently. Not being able to register or transfer some of your ccTLD domains for over a month was undoubtedly frustrating and, in our eyes, simply unacceptable. After parting ways with Enom (our previous upstream provider), we’re more … Continue reading Namecheap Moves .UK domains to a New Platform
