That's awfully strange. If you were wanting to do anything clandestine you would think to use the most unoffensive domain possible, not advertise that you are now going to do something untoward to your visitors.
Exactly my thought. If I was planning on phishing, say Bank of America customers, I will register something like BankkofAmerica.com. Not BankHacker, or PhishingBank.com. Lol, I wonder whose idea at NameCheap it was. No dearth of stupid people in the world. And for the people who are saying, "it was just a phone call" or "just a quick chat", the thing is just the whole idea is ridiculous, to have to chat with someone to register a domain with a particular keyword in it. Its just like GodDaddy would not let you register any domain with the word "godaddy" in it. As if they own the ICANN and they have the right to every single domain with that word in it.
Hey, I'm Namecheap's community manager and we've spoken to @blhack about this earlier (https://twitter.com/jonmarkgo/status/283995904699150337). We are aware that our list is way out of date (it's been around for a long time). We plan to update this list. However, we've got a lot of items on our agenda and this is a process. As such, it can't happen overnight.
It shouldn't take months to fix what comes down to an array of keywords or a regular expression. This is the equivalent of a pile of dishes sitting in the sink and you know it will take only 15 minutes to do them, but instead you just let them sit there.
While we understand that it could take 15 minutes for one person to do, please note that we have a LOT of items on our to-do list, and this requires involvement from many teams (multiple folks and teams need to discuss and review the list, we need to escalate to our developers, etc).
In the past few months alone, we've added a bunch of new TLDs. We included autorenew on domain services. We added a new Onepager web hosting service. We created this EFF fundraising effort. We created the best SSL reseller plan out there. And there's more. We've been busy.
Further, we're working on features that many of you have requested -- and are hoping to roll those out this year.
There are a lot of items on our agenda. This, too, is on our agenda. It will happen. It just won't happen overnight.
I realize I'd be thinking along the same lines as you if I were you, smartwater, but Namecheap is a company. It's not a one person entity. Therefore, again, this is a process. More than one person is involved in this process and it is planned.
I don't know, maybe this isn't someone's hobby website. If I had to make a change like that where we work, it'd have to go through a few layers of QA testing/approval before going live.
It might actually take a little effort and time. We don't know what's involved.
I read that in perfectly fine English. That's not corporate speak, it's a guy doing his job taking extra time out of his day to inform disgruntled users on a forum in some corner of the internet.
Well, not necessarily. The guy who stole $6M worth of bitcoins with his pyramid scheme used 'Pirateat40' as his id.
Geeks (include those here) tend to admire and trust those who call themselves hackers (not those mainstream media call hackers), perhaps partly because of your theory, that "real" hackers don't like to call themselves hackers.
