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Resources/Readwise/Full Document Contents/Articles/Namecheap Is Suing Their Customers|Full Document Contents]] ## Document Notes > [!note]+ Document Notes > tags: [domains, namecheap, startup-legal, censorship] > author: Theo - t3․gg > source: YouTube > reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPcB2VdzeKo > date created: 2025-01-08 19:30 > > # 🏷️ Title: Namecheap is suing their customers >  ## 🧰 Action Inbox - [H1] Choose registrars that make money elsewhere, not just domain margins — avoid GoDaddy/Namecheap #domains - [H2] Use services sensitive to Twitter reputation for leverage when problems arise — Vercel/Cloudflare #strategy - [H3] Avoid country code TLDs due to unpredictable rules and governance issues — stick to .com/.org #risk-management ## 🧭 Table of Contents - [📝 Summary](#-summary) - [📖 Main Content](#-main-content) - [🗒️ Notes](#️-notes) - [📚 References](#-references) - [🗣️ Paraphrase](#️-paraphrase) - [📰 Newsletter](#-newsletter) - [✅ Action Items](#-action-items) - [🧪 Hypotheses](#-hypotheses) - [📊 Methodology](#-methodology) - [❓ Questions](#-questions) - [🔮 Future Research](#-future-research) - [💡 Implications](#-implications) - [🧠 Learning Styles Assessment](#-learning-styles-assessment) - [📊 Accessibility Assessment](#-accessibility-assessment) - [🌍 DEIB Assessment](#-deib-assessment) - [✅ Logical Validity](#-logical-validity) - [🛡️ DARVO Analysis](#-darvo-analysis) - [🎯 Conclusion](#-conclusion) ### 🔗 References - [Theo's Channel](https://www.youtube.com/@t3dotgg) - [Grapile AI Code Review](https://graptile.com) ## 📝 Summary - Namecheap shut down startup founder Sanga's domain (thejuggernaut.com) due to an Indian trademark dispute, then sued her personally when she obtained a US court order to restore it - US court ruled in her favor with temporary restraining order, but Namecheap countersued and threatened legal fees despite losing - Demonstrates how domain vulnerabilities can destroy businesses through multiple attack vectors: registrars, registries, spam lists, and bad actors - Recommends using registrars that make money elsewhere (Vercel, Cloudflare) and are reputation-sensitive rather than margin-focused domain sellers - Highlights systemic risks in domain infrastructure that can enable censorship and business destruction ## 📖 Main Content The case involves The Juggernaut, a startup focused on South Asian stories, whose domain was suspended by Namecheap due to a trademark dispute with Juggernaut Books in India. Despite a US court ruling that Namecheap must restore the domain (with geo-blocking for India), the company countersued the founder personally and threatened additional legal fees. This exposes critical vulnerabilities in domain infrastructure. Multiple layers can fail: registrars (companies you buy from), registries (who control TLDs), governing bodies for country codes, and spam reputation services. Each represents a single point of failure that can destroy businesses overnight. The domain ecosystem resembles the XKCD dependency comic - everything relies on increasingly fragile infrastructure. When Theo's own domains were false-flagged as spam, it damaged SEO rankings and blocked European users from accessing UploadThing assets, demonstrating how easy it is to weaponize these systems. Namecheap's behavior mirrors tactics used by organizations like Scientology, who overwhelmed the IRS with personal lawsuits against individual employees until the agency granted tax-exempt status in 1993. Suing individuals rather than companies creates disproportionate pressure and distraction. ## 🗒️ Notes #### ⏱️ [00:00](https://youtu.be/gPcB2VdzeKo?t=0) — [H1] Domain vulnerability introduction - Key idea: Multiple domain failures from skill issues and external factors beyond control - Evidence: "domains get taken from me for reasons that I had no control or oversight over just to be held ransom for thousands of dollars" #### ⏱️ [02:15](https://youtu.be/gPcB2VdzeKo?t=135) — [H2] Sanga's case overview - Key idea: Namecheap sued their own customer personally after losing in court - Evidence: "NameCheep sued her personally. I've never seen anything quite like this" #### ⏱️ [04:30](https://youtu.be/gPcB2VdzeKo?t=270) — [H2] Business impact of domain loss - Key idea: Website unavailability destroys startup momentum and investor relations - Evidence: "One investor even messaged me on LinkedIn asking if I had shut down my business" #### ⏱️ [06:45](https://youtu.be/gPcB2VdzeKo?t=405) — [H3] SEO and reputation damage - Key idea: False spam flagging causes lasting damage to search rankings and accessibility - Evidence: "T3 Chat does not place properly in Google search results, primarily because we were incorrectly placed on a filter for spam and scam sites" #### ⏱️ [09:20](https://youtu.be/gPcB2VdzeKo?t=560) — [H2] Multiple failure points in domain infrastructure - Key idea: Registry, registrar, governing bodies, and spam lists all represent single points of failure - Evidence: "any one of them deciding they don't like you or failing you can destroy your whole business is horrifying" #### ⏱️ [12:10](https://youtu.be/gPcB2VdzeKo?t=730) — [H1] First Amendment and censorship concerns - Key idea: Domain takedowns can be weaponized for censorship of legitimate speech - Evidence: "People were unhappy about my takes around a specific open source library's governance and decided that I should not be allowed to run a business" #### ⏱️ [15:45](https://youtu.be/gPcB2VdzeKo?t=945) — [H2] Court ruling details - Key idea: US court specifically ordered Namecheap to restore domain with India geo-blocking only - Evidence: "enjoined from preventing or frustrating plaintiffs use of its registered domain, provided that the primary domain is geo-fenced to prevent access from users in India" #### ⏱️ [18:30](https://youtu.be/gPcB2VdzeKo?t=1110) — [H1] Scientology lawsuit parallel - Key idea: Personal lawsuits against individuals mirrors cult tactics to overwhelm opposition - Evidence: "Church of Scientology would personally reach out to people that were working for the IRS and sue them as individuals" #### ⏱️ [21:15](https://youtu.be/gPcB2VdzeKo?t=1275) — [H3] Legal threats for social media posts - Key idea: Namecheap threatened additional lawsuits if founder discussed case publicly - Evidence: "If you actually go to Twitter like you said you will, we will sue you for threatening us" #### ⏱️ [24:00](https://youtu.be/gPcB2VdzeKo?t=1440) — [H1] Registrar business model analysis - Key idea: Companies making money primarily from domain margins engage in predatory practices - Evidence: "any business that makes the majority of their income through fees and margins on domains is probably not the best place to register your domains" #### ⏱️ [26:45](https://youtu.be/gPcB2VdzeKo?t=1605) — [H1] Recommended registrar criteria - Key idea: Choose registrars that make money elsewhere and care about Twitter reputation - Evidence: "Vercel loses money because they've been too generous about weird disputes... they refunded all four of us those fees" #### ⏱️ [29:30](https://youtu.be/gPcB2VdzeKo?t=1770) — [H2] Twitter reputation as customer leverage - Key idea: Social media sensitivity provides recourse when normal support fails - Evidence: "random developer with under 50 followers... caused one of the most hellish days in the history of Vercel... got refunded, got personal support from the CEO" #### ⏱️ [32:20](https://youtu.be/gPcB2VdzeKo?t=1940) — [H3] Domain registrar recommendations - Key idea: Vercel, Cloudflare, DNSimple, and Porkbun offer better service models - Evidence: "Every domain I've personally registered in the last three years has been either on Vercel domains or Cloudflare's domains" #### ⏱️ [35:10](https://youtu.be/gPcB2VdzeKo?t=2110) — [H2] Porkbun accountability example - Key idea: Good registrars admit mistakes and take ownership of problems - Evidence: "We're sorry that we lost your trust... we screwed this up... what happened will not be able to happen again" ## 📚 References - [Grapile AI Code Review](https://graptile.com) - [DNSimple](https://dnsimple.com) - [Scientology IRS Settlement 1993](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_status_of_Scientology_in_the_United_States) ## 🗣️ Paraphrase - Domain infrastructure has multiple critical failure points that can destroy businesses overnight, including registrars, registries, spam reputation services, and bad actors filing false reports - Namecheap demonstrated predatory behavior by personally suing a customer who successfully obtained a court order against them, using legal harassment tactics similar to those employed by cults - Businesses should choose domain registrars that make money from other services rather than domain margins, and prioritize companies that are sensitive to public reputation for leverage when problems arise ## 📰 Newsletter **Domain Security: A Critical Blind Spot for WordPress Businesses** This week's cautionary tale involves a startup whose entire business was destroyed when Namecheap suspended their domain due to a frivolous trademark claim. Despite winning in US court, the founder is now facing personal lawsuits and legal fee demands. **Key Takeaway**: Your domain registrar can make or break your business. Choose wisely. **Recommended Registrars for WordPress Sites**: - **Cloudflare**: At-cost pricing, strong reputation management - **Vercel**: Developer-focused, excellent dispute resolution - **DNSimple**: Engineer-run support, API-first approach **Red Flags to Avoid**: Registrars making money primarily from domain margins (GoDaddy, Namecheap) often engage in predatory practices like surprise renewal fees and poor dispute resolution. **Action Item**: Review your domain registrar's terms of service and transfer to a more reliable provider if needed. Your business depends on it. Resources: [WordPress Hosting](https://wordpress.org/hosting/), [Developer Docs](https://developer.wordpress.org/), [WP-CLI](https://wp-cli.org/) ## ✅ Action Items #### DevRel - Developer advocacy: Create domain security workshop content for developer conferences - Education: Develop "Domain Infrastructure 101" curriculum covering registrar vs registry - Developer experience: Document domain transfer processes and backup strategies - Developer marketing: Partner with reliable registrars for developer-friendly domain content - Community management: Monitor domain-related support requests and escalations #### OSPO - Policy & Governance: Establish domain ownership and transfer policies for open source projects - License Compliance: Review domain registrar terms for compliance with open source license requirements - Security Management: Implement domain monitoring and reputation tracking systems - Software Inventory: Catalog all organizational domains and their registrars - Developer Support: Provide guidance on domain security best practices - Community Engagement: Support open source projects affected by domain disputes - Strategic Alignment: Track domain security metrics and incident response times #### Community - Maintainers: Provide domain security templates and governance frameworks - Contributors: Create guides for protecting project domains from attacks - Sponsors: Fund domain security tools and services for critical open source infrastructure - Ecosystem: Coordinate response to domain-based attacks on community projects #### WordPress - Core: Evaluate domain validation and verification improvements for WordPress.org services - Meta: Strengthen domain verification processes for WordPress.org accounts and services - Hosting: Develop domain security guidelines and recommendations for hosting providers - Community: Create domain security workshops for WordCamps and meetups - Documentation: Add domain security section to WordPress security documentation - Support: Train support volunteers on domain-related issues and escalation procedures ## 🧪 Hypotheses - Companies that derive primary revenue from domain margins engage in more predatory practices than those with diversified revenue streams - Public reputation sensitivity on social media platforms correlates with better customer dispute resolution - Domain infrastructure centralization creates systemic risks that can be exploited for censorship and business destruction - Personal lawsuits against business owners create disproportionate pressure compared to corporate litigation ### 📊 Methodology - Survey registrar pricing models and correlation with customer satisfaction scores - Analyze social media response times and resolution rates across different registrars - Map domain infrastructure dependencies and identify single points of failure - Compare litigation patterns between corporate and personal defendant cases ### ❓ Questions - How can domain infrastructure be made more resilient to false flagging and bad actor attacks? - What regulatory changes could prevent registrars from weaponizing personal lawsuits against customers? - How can businesses better protect themselves from domain-based censorship and retaliation? ### 🔮 Future Research - Investigate decentralized domain systems as alternatives to traditional DNS infrastructure - Analyze the effectiveness of different legal frameworks for protecting domain ownership rights - Study the impact of domain reputation systems on small business accessibility ### 💡 Implications - Practice: Businesses must carefully evaluate registrar selection as a critical infrastructure decision - Policy: Need for stronger consumer protections against predatory domain practices and personal lawsuit harassment - Security: Domain security requires multi-layered defense including backup domains and reputation monitoring - Education: Developers and business owners need better education about domain infrastructure risks - Funding: Critical open source infrastructure needs dedicated funding for domain security and protection ### 🧠 Learning Styles Assessment Reading level estimate: 9th Grade (Flesch-Kincaid) #### 👀 Visual learners - Present: Screenshots of legal documents, court orders, and registrar interfaces - Improve: Infrastructure diagrams showing registry vs registrar relationships, attack vector flowcharts #### 🔊 Aural learners - Present: Video format with clear narration and examples - Improve: Audio summary of key legal concepts and registrar comparison criteria #### 🗣️ Verbal learners - Present: Clear definitions of technical terms, analogies to gas stations and convenience stores - Improve: More analogies for complex legal and technical concepts #### 🧩 Kinesthetic learners - Present: Step-by-step registrar evaluation process - Improve: Hands-on domain transfer checklist, interactive registrar comparison tool #### 🧠 Logical learners - Present: Clear business model analysis and decision framework - Improve: Quantitative risk assessment matrix, cost-benefit analysis templates #### 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Social learners - Present: Community discussion and shared experiences - Improve: Peer review system for registrar recommendations, collaborative risk assessment #### 🧘‍♀️ Solitary learners - Present: Detailed case study analysis and self-directed research - Improve: Self-assessment questionnaire for domain security readiness #### 🌿 Naturalistic learners - Present: Ecosystem analogies and infrastructure dependencies - Improve: Environmental impact considerations of different registrars ### 📊 Accessibility Assessment #### Screen reader semantics - Present: Good heading structure and logical content flow - Improve: More descriptive link text, better alt text for legal document screenshots #### Keyboard navigation - Present: Standard video player controls - Improve: Timestamp navigation, transcript integration #### Contrast and readability - Present: High contrast video with clear narration - Improve: Transcript formatting with proper heading structure #### Text resizing and reflow - Present: Responsive video player - Improve: Scalable transcript interface #### Media and captions - Present: Automated captions available - Improve: Professional captions with legal terminology accuracy, downloadable transcript #### Forms and interactions - Present: Standard YouTube interface - Improve: Interactive registrar comparison tool with proper form labels #### Standards reference - Transcript needs proper heading hierarchy (WCAG 2.2 1.3.1), improved link context (2.4.4) ### 🌍 DE --- ## Full Transcript [00:00] I'm going to be real with you guys. I [00:01] have had so many problems with domains. [00:03] A significant number of them are [00:04] admittedly skill issues, but even more [00:06] of them weren't. The amount of times [00:08] I've had domains get taken from me for [00:10] reasons that I had no control or [00:12] oversight over just to be held ransom [00:14] for thousands of dollars in fees because [00:16] some provider from some random country [00:18] that happens to operate the.gg [00:20] decided that this day they wanted to [00:22] charge me more money. And that one was, [00:24] did you know you have to renew those [00:25] domains over a month before they're [00:27] going to expire or you have to pay this [00:29] crazy fee? [00:31] I've been through it with country code [00:33] TLDDS and domain registration in [00:34] general. Almost every domain I have I've [00:36] had some issue with at some point, but [00:38] none of them go quite as far as the [00:40] story I'm here to tell you guys today. [00:42] Because poor Sna had her domain taken [00:44] from her by NameCheep and then got sued [00:47] for it. Yes, NameCheep sued her [00:51] personally. I've never seen anything [00:53] quite like this. And the story is as [00:56] frustrating as it is heartbreaking. It [00:58] has massively impacted her business and [01:00] the work that she is doing. And I think [01:02] it is a good showcase of how risky [01:05] domains are as a surface area and what [01:07] you have to be considerate of as you [01:10] build a business nowadays. There's a lot [01:12] to think about here and honestly I hope [01:15] you never have to. In an ideal world, [01:17] you'll never have any problems like this [01:19] and as such you'll never have to worry [01:21] about it. But if you are building real [01:22] products that have real websites, [01:24] there's a chance you'll have to worry [01:26] about this. And hopefully going through [01:28] the story here will make you less likely [01:30] to get screwed the way that this poor [01:32] founder was. As someone who's personally [01:35] had bad experiences with namecheep, I'm [01:37] going to be a bit biased here because I [01:39] want to watch them burn. So know that [01:41] going in. Do you know what? I've never [01:43] had any problems with though today's [01:45] sponsor. We're shipping way more code [01:47] than ever. That also means we're [01:48] probably shipping more bugs than ever. [01:49] Unless we use today's sponsor to catch [01:51] them, Grapile, the best AI code [01:53] reviewer. Graptile deeply understands [01:55] your codebase and it uses that [01:56] understanding to catch mistakes that [01:58] almost nothing else can. I'm regularly [02:00] surprised that it found bugs that not [02:01] only other tools couldn't, but I [02:03] couldn't. 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This feels like a bad [03:21] time to own billgates.exy. [03:23] Yeah, [03:27] let's dive in. Cautionary tale for [03:30] fellow startup founders. Namechep just [03:32] sued her personally. There's a community [03:34] note because there are people who are [03:36] upset. Some amount of it's real, some [03:37] amount of it's just sexism. We'll get to [03:39] all of that, don't worry. But first, we [03:41] need to actually read what she has to [03:42] say. In January of 2025, NameCheep shut [03:45] down my company's website globally. I [03:47] was forced to file a temporary [03:49] restraining order against them to get [03:50] our site back. An American court ruled [03:52] in my favor. This is a state of Arizona [03:54] court motion. The court having [03:56] considered ink mango in this case to the [03:59] plaintiff's motion pursuant to this [04:01] litigation for temporary restraining [04:03] order and good cause appearing. It is [04:04] hereby ordered that plaintiff's motion [04:06] is granted. So this is you can keep the [04:09] domain temporary restraining order means [04:11] that's yours. The domain is for her [04:13] business the juggernaut on the [04:15] juggernaut.com. As she's puts it she [04:17] runs a juggernaut. It's a startup that [04:18] tells powerful South Asian stories. When [04:20] name took them offline the business came [04:22] to a screeching halt. growth, usage, and [04:24] word of mouth is a startup's lifeblood. [04:26] They lost all of it in a few weeks. That [04:28] is so hard for any business, but [04:30] especially something like this where [04:31] it's so deeply tied to the website. [04:34] There are so many businesses that I only [04:35] know how to interface with via the [04:37] website and like typing in the URL. I'll [04:39] use my Helium browser because this is [04:41] what I use for this type of stuff. But [04:42] like when I want to go see what's going [04:44] on in music, I type in PI and it goes to [04:46] Pitchfork. When I want to go check on in [04:48] on some code, I type GI and I go to [04:50] GitHub. When I want to ask a question [04:52] about something going on in the world or [04:54] just general intelligence stuff, I type [04:55] T3 and I go to T3 chat. The best AI chat [04:58] ever made. Highly recommend it if you [04:59] haven't checked it out. So, losing the [05:01] thing that people autocomplete their [05:03] brains to and their browsers to is [05:05] really, really painful. I don't know how [05:06] we would bounce back if we lost the T3 [05:08] chat domain. Our entire web presence [05:11] vanished overnight. People couldn't read [05:13] articles. Customers were furious. We [05:15] lost paying subscribers and couldn't [05:16] acquire any new ones, especially in one [05:19] of our biggest acquisition months. We [05:21] lost years of SEO that we had [05:22] painstakingly built. That one is really, [05:24] really bad, too. We've been [ __ ] with [05:26] this with stuff like T3 Chat. To this [05:28] day, T3 Chat does not place properly in [05:31] Google search results, primarily because [05:33] we were incorrectly placed on a filter [05:36] for spam and scam sites because some [05:39] haters of mine during a specific drama [05:41] with a specific media encoding library [05:43] decided to go false flag all of our [05:45] domains. It took multiple days and many [05:48] a string poll for me to get our sites [05:50] unlisted from these spam sites. It was [05:53] horrible. even like spam house and ones [05:54] that are meant to be the good ones [05:56] ruined our ability to be able to do [05:58] [ __ ] And we were at the point where [06:00] users of upload thing, our file upload [06:02] service, which if you're not familiar [06:03] with, one of the coolest things we [06:04] built, it's the easiest way to do file [06:05] upload. Our CDN domain for where assets [06:08] are resolved, got hit by one of those [06:10] filters because again, people were [06:13] falsely flagging our domains to these [06:15] different spam collectors and providers [06:17] that give these lists to companies like [06:19] ISPs and whatnot. And even though we got [06:21] it pulled within 24 hours, there were [06:23] multiple ISPs in Europe that kept [06:26] blocking upload thing URLs. So a handful [06:28] of our users that had customers in [06:30] Europe couldn't resolve assets like [06:32] PDFs, images, whatever they were hosting [06:34] because some random [ __ ] reported us [06:36] to some random [ __ ] company that got [06:38] us flagged. It's actually insane how [06:41] easy it is to ruin a company by doing [06:44] weird [ __ ] to their domain. Here's the [06:46] story from when this happened back in [06:47] October. Spam House false flagged us. [06:50] Specifically, our domain was listed as [06:53] being for fishing and criminal activity. [06:55] Obviously, a false flag. And RSEO to [06:58] this day is [ __ ] because of this one [07:00] thing. There are all of these players in [07:02] the domain space. Be it your registry [07:05] and your registar, which are two [07:07] different things that own different [07:08] parts of the process. Be it the [07:10] governing body for the TLD, if you have [07:12] a TLDD that's like aggi.uk, [07:15] UK. The governing entities for those is [07:18] a whole separate thing. And then you [07:20] have these spam lists that are published [07:22] and sold to companies to determine which [07:24] websites should or shouldn't be [07:26] autoblocked. The fact that there are so [07:28] many layers here where any one of them [07:30] deciding they don't like you or failing [07:31] you can destroy your whole business is [07:34] horrifying. You know the XKCD dependency [07:36] comic where it's like here's everything [07:38] that we're building on top of stuff and [07:39] on here is like a solid wellunded thing [07:41] like Linux and then here is something [07:42] that's smaller and less wellunded that [07:44] we rely on. Every website is this but on [07:47] this bottom section you have the [07:49] registry the registar and this tiny [07:51] little thin one is more like a [07:53] toothpick. spam house and other spam and [07:56] site like reputation lists and these [07:59] pieces can break and destroy your life [08:02] at any point in time if you run a [08:04] company as happened to sniga here. [08:07] Shutting down a news organization also [08:09] raises serious first amendment and free [08:11] speech concerns. Absolutely agree the [08:13] fact that you can use this as a method [08:14] of censorship as is what happened to me. [08:16] People were unhappy about my takes [08:18] around a specific open source library's [08:20] governance and decided that I should not [08:22] be allowed to run a business. People [08:24] went as far as saying I deserved it and [08:26] I knew what I was asking for for daring [08:28] to say that a specific open-source [08:30] library probably shouldn't be dunking on [08:32] random contributors and funders for it [08:34] on Twitter. Crazy take, I know, but the [08:37] fact that I donated five grand to a [08:39] library's development and then had [08:40] issues with how they dunked on people on [08:41] Twitter should not cost me my company. [08:44] That is censorship. And the funniest [08:46] part with that one was that people were [08:48] accusing me of censoring the project for [08:50] having an opinion and then went off to [08:51] legitimately try and censor me using [08:54] weird levers and power grabs that should [08:56] absolutely be illegal. I am fullon okay [08:59] with the idea of criminal prosecution [09:01] for anyone who does [ __ ] like this. Be [09:03] it the name person who's trying to sue [09:06] this poor girl, be it the company that [09:08] is abusing copyright law to cause this, [09:10] or be it the individuals knowingly [09:12] filing false flags to harm businesses. [09:14] That should be criminal. Period. Back to [09:17] this poor situation. When this happened, [09:19] they were in mid-con conversation with [09:20] investors and they had to suspend that [09:22] because the investors would go check the [09:23] site and it wasn't even [ __ ] there. [09:25] One investor even messaged me on [09:26] LinkedIn asking if I had shut down my [09:28] business because he couldn't find it [09:29] online anymore. Yeah. Do you know how [09:31] hard that conversation must be to [09:33] explain to an investor who's possibly [09:34] put millions of dollars into your [09:36] business? Yeah. Sorry you can't see our [09:38] website right now. I'm actually in the [09:39] middle of a lawsuit. That's not what [09:41] they invested into you for. They didn't [09:42] invest into you so you could win [09:43] lawsuits. They invested in you so you [09:45] could win period. Despite multiple [09:46] messages to name support, the company [09:48] was unresponsive. So she, poor thing, [09:51] had to sue NameCheep personally to [09:53] recover the domain. Now, because of [09:55] that, NameCheep is suing her back. [09:57] NameCheep's claim is that the domain was [09:59] registered in her name even though it [10:01] was used for her company. This is very, [10:03] very common. Also, I'm pretty sure most [10:05] domains require that you have a personal [10:08] business contact as one of the parts of [10:10] the IK registration process. like you [10:12] have to have a name registered. The fact [10:14] that her name is a name registered to [10:16] this domain that is not just the company [10:18] is their excuse for suing her instead of [10:20] the company is absurd. And it's not like [10:22] they're suing her LLC or some entity. [10:24] They are suing her personally. I've [10:26] already been saying things that can get [10:27] me in trouble. I'm going to say one [10:28] more. This is a strategy that has been [10:30] weaponized by a lot of religious cults, [10:33] in particular the Church of Scientology. [10:36] The only reason the Church of [10:37] Scientology is a taxexempt organization [10:40] in the United States is because they [10:42] would personally sue every single person [10:44] they found working for the IRS. They [10:47] would instruct members of the cult, [10:49] sorry, Church of Scientology to [10:51] personally reach out to people that were [10:54] working for the IRS and sue them as [10:56] individuals. None of the lawsuits ever [10:59] succeeded, but all of them wasted enough [11:02] time for the IRS employees that the IRS [11:05] was going to collapse under the weight [11:07] of half their employees being busy in [11:09] these [ __ ] court cases. So, the IRS [11:11] gave up and gave the church their [11:13] [ __ ] taxexempt status. And they did [11:15] it by doing this [ __ ] Using the [11:17] courts to crush your competition, not by [11:20] beating them with the law, but by [11:22] distracting them with the process is [11:24] horrifying. And if you have any doubt [11:26] about anything I just said, you can look [11:28] it up. This is very wellnown. In 1993, [11:31] the Church of Scientology and the IRS [11:32] reached a landmark secret settlement [11:34] ending decades of intense legal battles [11:36] granting the church taxism status as a [11:38] religion in exchange for dropping over [11:40] 2500 lawsuits against the agency, most [11:43] of which were against individual [11:45] employees of the agency. Actual [11:46] insanity. So, I guess that NameCheep and [11:48] the Church of Scientology have more in [11:50] common than I would have guessed. Crazy. [11:52] NameCheep also claims that it had broad [11:54] discretion to shut down your domain [11:56] quote at any time for any reason. That's [11:59] part of their terms. They claim they [12:00] have the right to do that at any point. [12:02] Horrifying. And that creates massive [12:04] uncertainty for founders. And now [12:06] NameCheep is trying to win exorbitant [12:08] legal fees from her despite the court [12:10] saying that they deserve the domain [12:12] back. So again, the court said she [12:13] deserves the domain. NameCheep declined [12:16] that and is now counter suing her and [12:18] trying to squeeze legal fees out of her. [12:21] The original CEO of NameCheep had [12:23] tweeted previously saying that he'll get [12:25] the domain back primarily because Gary [12:27] Tan jumped in and asked questions. In [12:29] the meantime, probably geoence India [12:30] from your core domain and do not work [12:32] around this as a redirect to another [12:33] domain from your core domain and she can [12:35] and he'll temporarily bring it back. So [12:36] specifically what it seems like happened [12:38] was that in India the [ __ ] trademark [12:41] case about Juggernaut because another [12:42] company claimed to own the Juggernaut [12:44] trademark sued her and forced NameCheep [12:47] to remove the domain from her even [12:50] though that ruling was only applicable [12:51] in India and other courts specifically [12:54] the court that both her company and [12:56] NameCheep are incorporated in the United [12:57] States went against that ruling. The [13:00] India courts firmly stated that this [13:02] domain cannot be owned by her. So the [13:05] workaround was that the CEO personally [13:07] said as long as you don't use this [13:08] domain in India, we'll give it back to [13:10] you. And then Gary Tan jumped in. This [13:12] sounds like what you're demanding is [13:14] even beyond what the New Delhi courts [13:16] and the plaintiff advocated for. This [13:18] idea that the the domain should not work [13:20] at all within India is not what the [13:22] original court case pushed for in New [13:24] Delhi. But NameCheep just wants to wipe [13:25] their hands clean and technically [13:27] speaking, they can do whatever they [13:28] want. But again, name is a company. They [13:30] can choose if and how they provide you [13:31] services. And it seems in this case they [13:33] decided to just put the work on the [13:36] founder instead of make a service work [13:38] well for the specific details of this [13:40] ruling. And it was significantly easier [13:43] for them to just remove the domain or [13:45] force her to apply one rule to the [13:47] domain. That makes the experience a lot [13:49] worse because technically speaking, [13:51] there's no reason she shouldn't be able [13:52] to redirect the juggernaut.com domain in [13:54] India to something else that is within [13:57] her trademark rights there. But again, [13:59] an American court operating against two [14:01] American companies ruled that NameCheep [14:03] needs to do things a certain way and [14:05] they overrode that. NameCheep's valued [14:07] at 1.5 billion and Porsa hasn't raised [14:10] the series A yet. So, she has way less [14:12] than 3 mil almost certainly, probably [14:13] less than a mill in the bank for this. [14:15] So, that's like you can't deal with [14:16] that. I'm going to keep fighting in [14:18] court. I refuse to be intimidated. As a [14:20] YC alum, it feels like it's my [14:21] responsibility to warn others. This can [14:23] happen to you. If you'd like to help, [14:25] please amplify this thread. Then the old [14:28] CEO came in and claimed that this is [14:30] public lies and manipulation of the [14:32] truth. Things aren't going to get any [14:34] easier. That's a threat. That's a threat [14:36] from the CEO of a billion-doll company. [14:38] The case started in 2019 and ruling [14:40] after ruling has been made against you. [14:41] You even stopped responding at some [14:43] point because you thought you could [14:44] ignore your responsibility. Settled [14:46] means you faced the facts and gave into [14:48] the demands. You've made this whole [14:49] situation worse for yourself now. So the [14:52] party suing is Juggernaut Books. [14:54] Juggernaut books does online publishing [14:57] of digital books and also has started [14:59] doing physical books afterwards. Whereas [15:01] the juggernaut is South Asia stories you [15:03] know like clearly a news site. Is there [15:05] some overlap between a book publisher [15:07] and a news site? Yeah. But in American [15:10] courts this would never stand. These are [15:12] obviously distinct enough entities that [15:15] no one's going to reasonably confuse the [15:16] two which is the general litmus test for [15:18] trademark law here. The juggernaut is [15:20] the news site. Juggernaut Books is a [15:23] different entity that is the company [15:25] doing the lawsuit. I think personally [15:27] it's a bit absurd that you can prevent [15:28] the use of a generic term like [15:30] juggernaut for things that aren't even [15:32] in competition with you. Absurdity. This [15:34] is a very clear order from the US [15:36] courts. It is further ordered that [15:38] defendant name Inc., its officers, [15:40] agents, directors, affiliates, servants, [15:41] employees, and all persons acting in [15:43] concert with them hereby enjoined from [15:45] preventing or frustrating plaintiffs use [15:47] of its registered domain, the [15:48] juggernaut.com, provided that the [15:50] primary domain is geoence to prevent [15:52] access to the primary domain from users [15:54] in India. That was the only restriction. [15:56] I even think this is stupid that like [15:58] the American court is making rulings on [15:59] other courts like this, but that's the [16:01] only counterargument that NameCheep had. [16:03] more call outs here that they are [16:05] specifically enjoined from restricting [16:07] access to the domain or indirectly [16:09] causing the expiration of the domain [16:10] which is another thing NameCheep loves [16:11] to do is make it too easy to let your [16:13] domain expire so they can charge you [16:14] crazy fees I've experienced that many [16:16] others have too and here is a US counter [16:18] claim let's see how this one went this [16:20] is filed by the attorneys this isn't a [16:23] court document this is the attorneys [16:25] let's see how the courts responded to [16:26] that though oh huh weird name took the [16:31] time to include their counter claim [16:33] where they did not take the time to [16:34] include the court's response by the [16:36] looks of it. I wonder why. It's also sus [16:40] that this is only the lawsuit name sheep [16:42] filed against the company and not the [16:44] separate one they filed against her. [16:47] This is a great one. This is the legal [16:49] mail that was sent from the legal firm [16:52] for NameCheep to these guys. This letter [16:56] follows Mr. Bryer's November 6, 2025 [16:58] telephone call with my partner Eugene [17:00] Rome during which Mr. Bryer expressly [17:02] communicated on behalf of your client, [17:04] listening to sir, that one, Inc. Mango [17:06] has made a settlement demand. Two, Miss [17:09] sir does not appreciate being personally [17:11] named. Three, Miss sir demands that [17:13] namecheep dismiss its counter claim [17:15] within 10 days. And four, if we do not, [17:18] Miss sir intends to quote go to Twitter [17:20] to talk about the case. Because this [17:22] threat was affirmably conveyed by [17:24] council as part of your settlement [17:25] communication, the conduct is attributed [17:28] to council as well. For the reasons [17:30] below, the threat is improper, [17:31] unprotected, and exposes Miss Sir to [17:33] potential civil liability and your firm [17:35] to both civil and ethical consequences. [17:37] This is them sending their lawyers after [17:40] her and her lawyers, saying, "If you [17:43] actually go to Twitter like you said you [17:44] will, we will sue you for threatening [17:46] us." Insanity. How the [ __ ] did the CEO [17:49] post this Google Drive thinking this [17:52] would clear him in any way? I was [17:54] actually expecting to like see some [17:55] stuff and you're like, "Okay, that's [17:57] fair. I see the other side." No, I'm [17:59] gonna go [ __ ] yell at him for this. [18:01] It is done. [18:04] So, like that last bit here to be very [18:06] clear, for the reasons below, the threat [18:08] is improper, unprotected, and exposes [18:10] Miss Sir to potential civil liability [18:12] and your firm to both civil and ethical [18:14] consequences. That is the name legal [18:16] firm threatening Miss Sir and her legal [18:19] firm. Because they see we will go public [18:22] as a threat, they now feel in the right [18:24] making their own. Are you joking? So the [18:28] next question you have and it's the [18:29] right one. Where do you go now? Great [18:31] question. I am going to drop the hot [18:34] take that any business that makes the [18:37] majority of their income through fees [18:40] and margins on domains is probably not [18:43] the best place to register your domains. [18:46] I would not trust GoDaddy particularly [18:48] more than I would trust NameCheep. If [18:50] these margins are how you make your [18:51] money, then you're going to squeeze [18:52] every [ __ ] penny you can. And I've [18:55] seen this a lot with these registars, [18:56] even like GoDaddy. I guarantee I haven't [18:58] been to this website in a minute. I'll [19:00] put money on it. The word AI occurs in [19:02] the first two sentences or the header [19:04] because they're going to do anything [19:05] they can to make money. Oh, huh. [19:10] They actually haven't. Oh, there we go. [19:12] Build your site at the speed of AI. I [19:14] was wondering where it would be hidden [19:15] on the page. The point I want to make [19:17] here is that like they have to do dirty [19:19] things to win because there isn't much [19:21] margin to be had because the domain [19:23] registars like the places we go to to [19:25] buy domains, those are not the lower [19:27] level registry. They're effectively [19:29] resellers. Think of domain registars [19:31] less like a Walmart or a Trader Joe's [19:35] and more like a gas station. Like [19:37] there's only so many suppliers and [19:40] everyone's buying from it. It's really, [19:42] really hard to make a profit off of just [19:44] gas, which is why most gas stations make [19:47] their money by selling other things like [19:49] in their little convenience stores and [19:51] whatnot. That's like essential for them [19:53] to make meaningful margins. Domains are [19:55] very similar because all of these domain [19:56] companies are buying from the same three [19:58] or four registries. The ones that make [20:00] all of their money off of that margin [20:02] can't really be trusted and they'll [20:04] always do crazy stuff like if you see a [20:05] crazy deal like your first year is only [20:08] 1 cent. like here a.com for only 1 cent [20:11] for the first year. The reason they do [20:13] that is because they charge 20 to 30% [20:15] more than everybody else for the second [20:17] year, the third year, and the fourth [20:18] year. And the math works out that it [20:20] ends up being profitable over time. [20:21] Personally, I only like working with [20:23] registars that have two specific traits. [20:25] One, they make their money elsewhere. [20:27] And two, they're sensitive to the [20:29] reputation on Twitter. So, starting with [20:31] this point, what am I referring to? When [20:33] I mention Cloudflare or Versel, what [20:36] comes to mind? It's probably not the [20:38] domains product. Every domain I've [20:40] personally registered in the last three [20:42] years has been either on Verscell [20:44] domains or it has been on Cloudflare's [20:47] domains. Neither of these companies make [20:49] money off of their domain selling. If [20:51] anything, I'm pretty certain that [20:52] Verscell loses money because they've [20:54] been too generous about weird disputes. [20:56] Like I had problems with my.gg domain on [20:58] Versel because they didn't set up the [20:59] registry process properly for that [21:01] specific TLD at the time. That's all [21:03] been fixed and then some. At the time it [21:05] was bad and cost some fees and Verscell [21:07] just ate the fees for me. And that's not [21:09] just because I'm Theo. That's because I [21:11] was one of four people who were affected [21:12] by this particular implementation [21:14] failure and they refunded all four of us [21:16] those fees that were in the thousands of [21:18] dollars. So that just was a raw cost [21:20] they ate because Verscell is not trying [21:22] to make money off the domains. It's not [21:23] like, oh, we lost this money off of [21:25] these domains. Now we have to go sell [21:27] 5,000 domains to make up for it. For [21:29] them, it's much more so we lost the [21:31] money on these domains, but we'll [21:33] probably make the money back on these [21:34] customers over time because these same [21:36] customers are buying other things on our [21:38] service. Somebody said, "What about [21:40] country TLDDS though? Cloudflare don't [21:42] offer those." They don't. Looks like GG [21:45] isn't offered because GG is an evil one. [21:48] I would argue if they're not offered on [21:49] Cloudflare or Versel, you probably [21:51] shouldn't buy them because they're full [21:52] of catches. I cannot tell you how many [21:54] problems I've had with my.gg domain. [21:56] They do have.AI AI even though that's a [21:58] country TLD. So you have some options [22:00] there. But CCTLDs are evil and you [22:02] should avoid them at all costs. The [22:04] other reason I'm mentioning Verscell [22:06] though is point two. They care about [22:08] their reputation. Specifically on [22:10] Twitter. I am now at the point where [22:12] it's really hard for me to justify using [22:14] a product or service that doesn't care [22:16] about their reputation because it's such [22:18] a strong lever to have. Oh, Theo, you [22:21] just have that cuz you have followers. [22:23] No. In fact, earlier today, someone came [22:26] into my chat that I remember [22:28] specifically because despite having [22:30] under 50 followers on Twitter, he caused [22:32] one of the most hellish days in the [22:34] history of Verscell because he had a bug [22:36] in his code that caused Astro Code to [22:39] redirect loop and do thousands of server [22:41] calls before it would eventually die. [22:43] That caused him to get a random like [22:45] $400 bill on Versel. And then Verscell's [22:48] default support didn't refund him [22:49] because they didn't understand it. So [22:50] then he posted on Twitter about it. It [22:52] blew the [ __ ] up and he got refunded. He [22:54] got personal support from the CEO and [22:56] from Lero when he was still there. He [22:58] got patches in Astro. He got patches in [23:00] Verscell. A lot of actual things changed [23:02] as a result of this random developer [23:04] complaining on Twitter in a digestible [23:06] way because Verscell cares a lot about [23:07] how people feel about them on Twitter. [23:09] Believe me, I know better than anyone. [23:10] Verscell cares too much about these [23:12] things. And as much as that sucks that [23:14] they care too much about Twitter, it's a [23:16] lever you have as a customer. And with [23:18] things as important as your domains, you [23:20] need levers because there's so many [23:22] against you. The fact that a random [23:24] hater can go false flag you to a bunch [23:26] of spam trackers is enough a reason that [23:28] you need leverage back. You need ways [23:30] to, for better or worse, exploit the [23:33] other party here because they will be [23:35] quick to do the same to you and others [23:36] will be even quicker to use them against [23:38] you. So, who would I recommend based on [23:40] these things? I know we don't all love [23:42] Versel, but Versel for domains is pretty [23:44] solid. They have annoying rules around [23:46] CNAs that makes it stupid, but for the [23:48] most part, Versell is good here. [23:49] Cloudflare can be too, but I've had some [23:51] weird issues with Cloudflare in [23:53] particular. It's very hard to take a [23:54] subdomain from a domain you have on [23:56] Cloudflare and have that subdomain go [23:58] somewhere else. Very unreliable. So, for [24:01] those reasons, I personally lean forcel [24:03] between these two, but there are lots of [24:05] other really good options. One that I am [24:07] really fond of that is a sponsor, not of [24:09] today's video or any of the content now, [24:10] but they've sponsored in the past and I [24:11] hope they continue in the future, Dian [24:13] Simple. D and simple. Yes, they make [24:15] their money on margins for domains, but [24:18] they have slightly higher margins [24:20] because they have a very different [24:21] service. It's their goal to make it as [24:23] easy as possible to manage everything to [24:26] do with your domains via your code. And [24:28] they are selling their control plane and [24:30] their SDK as much as they're selling [24:32] domains. But more importantly, they're [24:35] just a small team of people based out of [24:37] Florida. If I recall, I did a call with [24:39] the founders cuz they wanted to sponsor. [24:41] And it was the husband and wife, [24:43] founders of the company, wearing their [24:45] branded t-shirts, really excited to beat [24:47] me because they've watched my videos and [24:49] like them. Every employee at the company [24:51] is an actual engineer. So when you go to [24:53] support, you're talking to real [24:54] engineers. You can just tell when you [24:56] read the SDK, it's like, okay, they're [24:57] devs. They get it. They understand. And [25:00] since they're smaller, they're [25:01] inherently going to be much more [25:03] sensitive to their reputation. If the [25:05] first time you hear about D and Simple, [25:06] it's because someone had a bad [25:07] experience, they're screwed. So, as much [25:10] as I hate to say you should make my [25:12] sponsor feel bad if they screw you, you [25:14] should. If any of my sponsors make your [25:16] life harder or screw you or hurt your [25:17] business, tell me about it and be loud [25:20] about it publicly. I don't want sponsors [25:22] that cause problems for my viewers. If [25:24] anyone in my audience has an issue with [25:25] any of my sponsors, please tell me so [25:27] that I can rethink my relationship with [25:29] them and use my leverage to pressure [25:30] them because it's important. It's really [25:32] important. So, for all of those reasons, [25:34] DN Simple's a very good bet. I also know [25:36] a ton of people who have been using them [25:37] heavily, including but not limited to [25:39] the Linux Foundation, so they seem like [25:40] a reliable bet. I wouldn't worry about [25:42] them. And while Diannle didn't sponsor, [25:44] use soy.link/dnsimple [25:47] to make sure they know you came from me. [25:48] It helps. Thank you. Anyways, there's [25:51] one last name that I've been hearing [25:52] come up a lot, and if I look at my chat [25:54] right now, it's half of it. It's a [25:55] little scary to me, but I think they're [25:56] fine. Pork bun. I have a couple domains [25:59] on Pork Bun. I've had no problems. From [26:01] what I have heard, most people haven't. [26:02] And they also, the very least, in terms [26:04] of reviews, seem to care a lot about how [26:08] much people like them and use them. So, [26:10] I would bet that if you had a problem [26:11] and you went and complained on Trust [26:12] Pilot or on Twitter, there's a good [26:14] chance they'll hop in and deal with it. [26:16] This is a fun back and forth that [26:17] happened related to all of this. A few [26:19] days later, someone had their domain [26:20] that they were searching for on GoDaddy [26:23] get purchased as they were searching and [26:25] then resold to them. Like a a classic [26:27] rugpull. Insanity. And it should [26:29] absolutely be illegal. I agree with [26:30] Britain there, but I don't agree with [26:32] Britain saying that you should always [26:33] use namecheep because Google domains is [26:35] dead. I said use Versel Cloudflare or [26:38] some company that doesn't make their [26:39] income off upcharging for domains. Pork [26:41] bun is fine, too. Joshua community came [26:43] in and said careful with pork bun if you [26:44] have any valuable domains. He had a [26:46] problem which she links to here. So, got [26:49] an email that $15,000 of domains is past [26:51] expiration that shouldn't be auto renews [26:53] on credit cards attached. Get this [26:54] error. Uses 15k of domains. He's not [26:56] going to be happy. So he said that and [26:58] Porkbun hopped in. We try to make it [27:00] right, but sometimes you can't fix a [27:02] wrong. We're humans trying to do our [27:03] best and although we strive for [27:04] perfection, haven't quite gotten there [27:06] yet. We obviously have many tens of [27:07] thousands of valuable domains used and [27:09] owned by many thousands of users who [27:10] trust us with their assets every day. So [27:12] they linked to their tweets replying to [27:15] these issues here. Registry suspended [27:17] domains are done at the registry level [27:18] by the registry and not the registar. [27:20] Again, the separation between these two [27:22] is confusing to people. The registry is [27:24] who determines what is allowed on a [27:26] given TLD and then they sell that to a [27:28] registar like pork bun, namecheep or any [27:30] of these that can then sell it to you. [27:32] So the registar is the company that [27:33] works with the registry to get your [27:34] domain made but the registry has to be [27:37] okay with it. And the registry can have [27:39] all sorts of weird rules, regulations [27:40] and things they want to do. And [27:42] occasionally if the registry doesn't [27:44] like you or the thing about what you did [27:46] or how your registar is working with [27:48] them, then you get screwed because [27:50] there's all of these layers. But a [27:52] registar blocking your account from [27:53] renewing other domains because a tldd [27:55] registar suspended a domain with an [27:57] invalid information request happens at [28:00] the registar level and tldd are what he [28:02] means is a registry. So registry at the [28:04] bottom requested that pork bun suspend [28:06] one of his domains and in the process [28:08] they locked his whole account which [28:09] sucks. That was on an unused domain and [28:11] it blocked his ability to renew other [28:13] domains. We're sorry that we lost your [28:15] trust. It was a series of unfortunate [28:16] events but what happened will not be [28:18] able to happen again. As a builder and [28:20] business owner yourself, I'm guessing [28:21] you can appreciate that things sometimes [28:23] can and do go wrong. We'll fix what [28:24] caused your issue and will do better. [28:26] But it's unfortunate that it happened to [28:27] you and I apologize that it did. This [28:29] type of ownership is why I'm okay with [28:31] recommending them still. It's clear they [28:33] care. It's clear they're trying. I have [28:35] a lot of respect for that. And the the [28:37] ownership of we did this wrong, we [28:39] screwed this up is also really rare. [28:41] I've never seen NameCheep admit that [28:42] they [ __ ] something up before. You [28:44] know what? I I'll put that as a point [28:45] here. This is possibly the biggest most [28:47] important point because if they can't [28:49] admit that they screwed up, the [28:50] likelihood that they fix the thing is [28:52] much lower and the likelihood that they [28:53] sue you is much higher. So, as Maria put [28:56] it, Apple would never do something like [28:57] this. I agree. I would never register a [28:59] domain through Apple. I'm thankful they [29:01] don't offer that product. But as long as [29:03] they make money other ways, they care [29:05] about their reputation, and they admit [29:06] when they're mistaken and they screw up, [29:08] you're probably good. So, everything in [29:10] this list is totally fine for me. [29:11] There's probably others that meet these [29:13] requirements and are solid. GoDaddy does [29:15] not, Two Cows does not, and sure as [ __ ] [29:17] NameCheep does not. So yeah, I think [29:21] I've said all I have to here. Be careful [29:22] with your domains and make sure they [29:24] register with somebody you can actually [29:25] trust. And until next time, peace nerds.  ## Highlights - I've been through it with country code TLDDS and domain registration in general. Almost every domain I have I've had some issue with at some point, but none of them go quite as far as the story I'm here to tell you guys today. Because poor Sna had her domain taken from her by NameCheep and then got sued for it. Yes, NameCheep sued her personally. I've never seen anything quite like this. And the story is as frustrating as it is heartbreaking. It has massively impacted her business and ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjte1s6vx7mrx2ehqnvf7)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - hard that conversation must be to explain to an investor who's possibly put millions of dollars into your business? Yeah. Sorry you can't see our website right now. I'm actually in the middle of a lawsuit. That's not what they invested into you for. They didn't invest into you so you could win lawsuits. They invested in you so you could win period. Despite multiple messages to name support, the company was unresponsive. So she, poor thing, had to sue NameCheep personally to recover the domain. Now, because of that, NameCheep is suing her back. NameCheep's claim is that the domain was registered in her name even though it ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjthcfvynx2fc73gtpvgm)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - have the right to do that at any point. Horrifying. And that creates massive uncertainty for founders. And now NameCheep is trying to win exorbitant legal fees from her despite the court saying that they deserve the domain back. So again, the court said she deserves the domain. NameCheep declined that and is now counter suing her and trying to squeeze legal fees out of her. The original CEO of NameCheep had tweeted previously saying that he'll get the domain back primarily because Gary Tan jumped in and asked questions. In the meantime, probably geoence India ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtngxyys583hcaa1f97q)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - this point, what am I referring to? When I mention Cloudflare or Versel, what comes to mind? It's probably not the domains product. Every domain I've personally registered in the last three years has been either on Verscell domains or it has been on Cloudflare's domains. Neither of these companies make money off of their domain selling. If anything, I'm pretty certain that Verscell loses money because they've been too generous about weird disputes. Like I had problems with my.gg domain on Versel because they didn't set up the registry process properly for that ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtyw7cqnwe0yxjmqjz41)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - specific TLD at the time. That's all been fixed and then some. At the time it was bad and cost some fees and Verscell just ate the fees for me. And that's not just because I'm Theo. That's because I was one of four people who were affected by this particular implementation failure and they refunded all four of us those fees that were in the thousands of dollars. So that just was a raw cost they ate because Verscell is not trying to make money off the domains. It's not like, oh, we lost this money off of these domains. Now we have to go sell 5,000 domains to make up for it. For them, it's much more so we lost the ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv4ednp7bn3rrb6vk9c3)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - what I have heard, most people haven't. And they also, the very least, in terms of reviews, seem to care a lot about how much people like them and use them. So, I would bet that if you had a problem and you went and complained on Trust Pilot or on Twitter, there's a good chance they'll hop in and deal with it. This is a fun back and forth that happened related to all of this. A few days later, someone had their domain that they were searching for on GoDaddy get purchased as they were searching and then resold to them. Like a a classic rugpull. Insanity. And it should absolutely be illegal. I agree with ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv8h76k0czedrwz1mrbx)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted ## New highlights added February 14, 2026 at 11:24 PM - I've been through it with country code TLDDS and domain registration in general. Almost every domain I have I've had some issue with at some point, but none of them go quite as far as the story I'm here to tell you guys today. Because poor Sna had her domain taken from her by NameCheep and then got sued for it. Yes, NameCheep sued her personally. I've never seen anything quite like this. And the story is as frustrating as it is heartbreaking. It has massively impacted her business and ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjte1s6vx7mrx2ehqnvf7)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - hard that conversation must be to explain to an investor who's possibly put millions of dollars into your business? Yeah. Sorry you can't see our website right now. I'm actually in the middle of a lawsuit. That's not what they invested into you for. They didn't invest into you so you could win lawsuits. They invested in you so you could win period. Despite multiple messages to name support, the company was unresponsive. So she, poor thing, had to sue NameCheep personally to recover the domain. Now, because of that, NameCheep is suing her back. NameCheep's claim is that the domain was registered in her name even though it ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjthcfvynx2fc73gtpvgm)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - have the right to do that at any point. Horrifying. And that creates massive uncertainty for founders. And now NameCheep is trying to win exorbitant legal fees from her despite the court saying that they deserve the domain back. So again, the court said she deserves the domain. NameCheep declined that and is now counter suing her and trying to squeeze legal fees out of her. The original CEO of NameCheep had tweeted previously saying that he'll get the domain back primarily because Gary Tan jumped in and asked questions. In the meantime, probably geoence India ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtngxyys583hcaa1f97q)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - this point, what am I referring to? When I mention Cloudflare or Versel, what comes to mind? It's probably not the domains product. Every domain I've personally registered in the last three years has been either on Verscell domains or it has been on Cloudflare's domains. Neither of these companies make money off of their domain selling. If anything, I'm pretty certain that Verscell loses money because they've been too generous about weird disputes. Like I had problems with my.gg domain on Versel because they didn't set up the registry process properly for that ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtyw7cqnwe0yxjmqjz41)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - specific TLD at the time. That's all been fixed and then some. At the time it was bad and cost some fees and Verscell just ate the fees for me. And that's not just because I'm Theo. That's because I was one of four people who were affected by this particular implementation failure and they refunded all four of us those fees that were in the thousands of dollars. So that just was a raw cost they ate because Verscell is not trying to make money off the domains. It's not like, oh, we lost this money off of these domains. Now we have to go sell 5,000 domains to make up for it. For them, it's much more so we lost the ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv4ednp7bn3rrb6vk9c3)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - what I have heard, most people haven't. And they also, the very least, in terms of reviews, seem to care a lot about how much people like them and use them. So, I would bet that if you had a problem and you went and complained on Trust Pilot or on Twitter, there's a good chance they'll hop in and deal with it. This is a fun back and forth that happened related to all of this. A few days later, someone had their domain that they were searching for on GoDaddy get purchased as they were searching and then resold to them. Like a a classic rugpull. Insanity. And it should absolutely be illegal. I agree with ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv8h76k0czedrwz1mrbx)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted ## New highlights added February 15, 2026 at 12:24 AM - I've been through it with country code TLDDS and domain registration in general. Almost every domain I have I've had some issue with at some point, but none of them go quite as far as the story I'm here to tell you guys today. Because poor Sna had her domain taken from her by NameCheep and then got sued for it. Yes, NameCheep sued her personally. I've never seen anything quite like this. And the story is as frustrating as it is heartbreaking. It has massively impacted her business and ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjte1s6vx7mrx2ehqnvf7)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - hard that conversation must be to explain to an investor who's possibly put millions of dollars into your business? Yeah. Sorry you can't see our website right now. I'm actually in the middle of a lawsuit. That's not what they invested into you for. They didn't invest into you so you could win lawsuits. They invested in you so you could win period. Despite multiple messages to name support, the company was unresponsive. So she, poor thing, had to sue NameCheep personally to recover the domain. Now, because of that, NameCheep is suing her back. NameCheep's claim is that the domain was registered in her name even though it ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjthcfvynx2fc73gtpvgm)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - have the right to do that at any point. Horrifying. And that creates massive uncertainty for founders. And now NameCheep is trying to win exorbitant legal fees from her despite the court saying that they deserve the domain back. So again, the court said she deserves the domain. NameCheep declined that and is now counter suing her and trying to squeeze legal fees out of her. The original CEO of NameCheep had tweeted previously saying that he'll get the domain back primarily because Gary Tan jumped in and asked questions. In the meantime, probably geoence India ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtngxyys583hcaa1f97q)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - this point, what am I referring to? When I mention Cloudflare or Versel, what comes to mind? It's probably not the domains product. Every domain I've personally registered in the last three years has been either on Verscell domains or it has been on Cloudflare's domains. Neither of these companies make money off of their domain selling. If anything, I'm pretty certain that Verscell loses money because they've been too generous about weird disputes. Like I had problems with my.gg domain on Versel because they didn't set up the registry process properly for that ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtyw7cqnwe0yxjmqjz41)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - specific TLD at the time. That's all been fixed and then some. At the time it was bad and cost some fees and Verscell just ate the fees for me. And that's not just because I'm Theo. That's because I was one of four people who were affected by this particular implementation failure and they refunded all four of us those fees that were in the thousands of dollars. So that just was a raw cost they ate because Verscell is not trying to make money off the domains. It's not like, oh, we lost this money off of these domains. Now we have to go sell 5,000 domains to make up for it. For them, it's much more so we lost the ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv4ednp7bn3rrb6vk9c3)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - what I have heard, most people haven't. And they also, the very least, in terms of reviews, seem to care a lot about how much people like them and use them. So, I would bet that if you had a problem and you went and complained on Trust Pilot or on Twitter, there's a good chance they'll hop in and deal with it. This is a fun back and forth that happened related to all of this. A few days later, someone had their domain that they were searching for on GoDaddy get purchased as they were searching and then resold to them. Like a a classic rugpull. Insanity. And it should absolutely be illegal. I agree with ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv8h76k0czedrwz1mrbx)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted ## New highlights added February 15, 2026 at 1:25 AM - I've been through it with country code TLDDS and domain registration in general. Almost every domain I have I've had some issue with at some point, but none of them go quite as far as the story I'm here to tell you guys today. Because poor Sna had her domain taken from her by NameCheep and then got sued for it. Yes, NameCheep sued her personally. I've never seen anything quite like this. And the story is as frustrating as it is heartbreaking. It has massively impacted her business and ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjte1s6vx7mrx2ehqnvf7)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - hard that conversation must be to explain to an investor who's possibly put millions of dollars into your business? Yeah. Sorry you can't see our website right now. I'm actually in the middle of a lawsuit. That's not what they invested into you for. They didn't invest into you so you could win lawsuits. They invested in you so you could win period. Despite multiple messages to name support, the company was unresponsive. So she, poor thing, had to sue NameCheep personally to recover the domain. Now, because of that, NameCheep is suing her back. NameCheep's claim is that the domain was registered in her name even though it ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjthcfvynx2fc73gtpvgm)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - have the right to do that at any point. Horrifying. And that creates massive uncertainty for founders. And now NameCheep is trying to win exorbitant legal fees from her despite the court saying that they deserve the domain back. So again, the court said she deserves the domain. NameCheep declined that and is now counter suing her and trying to squeeze legal fees out of her. The original CEO of NameCheep had tweeted previously saying that he'll get the domain back primarily because Gary Tan jumped in and asked questions. In the meantime, probably geoence India ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtngxyys583hcaa1f97q)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - this point, what am I referring to? When I mention Cloudflare or Versel, what comes to mind? It's probably not the domains product. Every domain I've personally registered in the last three years has been either on Verscell domains or it has been on Cloudflare's domains. Neither of these companies make money off of their domain selling. If anything, I'm pretty certain that Verscell loses money because they've been too generous about weird disputes. Like I had problems with my.gg domain on Versel because they didn't set up the registry process properly for that ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtyw7cqnwe0yxjmqjz41)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - specific TLD at the time. That's all been fixed and then some. At the time it was bad and cost some fees and Verscell just ate the fees for me. And that's not just because I'm Theo. That's because I was one of four people who were affected by this particular implementation failure and they refunded all four of us those fees that were in the thousands of dollars. So that just was a raw cost they ate because Verscell is not trying to make money off the domains. It's not like, oh, we lost this money off of these domains. Now we have to go sell 5,000 domains to make up for it. For them, it's much more so we lost the ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv4ednp7bn3rrb6vk9c3)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - what I have heard, most people haven't. And they also, the very least, in terms of reviews, seem to care a lot about how much people like them and use them. So, I would bet that if you had a problem and you went and complained on Trust Pilot or on Twitter, there's a good chance they'll hop in and deal with it. This is a fun back and forth that happened related to all of this. A few days later, someone had their domain that they were searching for on GoDaddy get purchased as they were searching and then resold to them. Like a a classic rugpull. Insanity. And it should absolutely be illegal. I agree with ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv8h76k0czedrwz1mrbx)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted ## New highlights added February 15, 2026 at 2:24 AM - I've been through it with country code TLDDS and domain registration in general. Almost every domain I have I've had some issue with at some point, but none of them go quite as far as the story I'm here to tell you guys today. Because poor Sna had her domain taken from her by NameCheep and then got sued for it. Yes, NameCheep sued her personally. I've never seen anything quite like this. And the story is as frustrating as it is heartbreaking. It has massively impacted her business and ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjte1s6vx7mrx2ehqnvf7)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - hard that conversation must be to explain to an investor who's possibly put millions of dollars into your business? Yeah. Sorry you can't see our website right now. I'm actually in the middle of a lawsuit. That's not what they invested into you for. They didn't invest into you so you could win lawsuits. They invested in you so you could win period. Despite multiple messages to name support, the company was unresponsive. So she, poor thing, had to sue NameCheep personally to recover the domain. Now, because of that, NameCheep is suing her back. NameCheep's claim is that the domain was registered in her name even though it ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjthcfvynx2fc73gtpvgm)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - have the right to do that at any point. Horrifying. And that creates massive uncertainty for founders. And now NameCheep is trying to win exorbitant legal fees from her despite the court saying that they deserve the domain back. So again, the court said she deserves the domain. NameCheep declined that and is now counter suing her and trying to squeeze legal fees out of her. The original CEO of NameCheep had tweeted previously saying that he'll get the domain back primarily because Gary Tan jumped in and asked questions. In the meantime, probably geoence India ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtngxyys583hcaa1f97q)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - this point, what am I referring to? When I mention Cloudflare or Versel, what comes to mind? It's probably not the domains product. Every domain I've personally registered in the last three years has been either on Verscell domains or it has been on Cloudflare's domains. Neither of these companies make money off of their domain selling. If anything, I'm pretty certain that Verscell loses money because they've been too generous about weird disputes. Like I had problems with my.gg domain on Versel because they didn't set up the registry process properly for that ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtyw7cqnwe0yxjmqjz41)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - specific TLD at the time. That's all been fixed and then some. At the time it was bad and cost some fees and Verscell just ate the fees for me. And that's not just because I'm Theo. That's because I was one of four people who were affected by this particular implementation failure and they refunded all four of us those fees that were in the thousands of dollars. So that just was a raw cost they ate because Verscell is not trying to make money off the domains. It's not like, oh, we lost this money off of these domains. Now we have to go sell 5,000 domains to make up for it. For them, it's much more so we lost the ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv4ednp7bn3rrb6vk9c3)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - what I have heard, most people haven't. And they also, the very least, in terms of reviews, seem to care a lot about how much people like them and use them. So, I would bet that if you had a problem and you went and complained on Trust Pilot or on Twitter, there's a good chance they'll hop in and deal with it. This is a fun back and forth that happened related to all of this. A few days later, someone had their domain that they were searching for on GoDaddy get purchased as they were searching and then resold to them. Like a a classic rugpull. Insanity. And it should absolutely be illegal. I agree with ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv8h76k0czedrwz1mrbx)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted ## New highlights added February 15, 2026 at 3:24 AM - I've been through it with country code TLDDS and domain registration in general. Almost every domain I have I've had some issue with at some point, but none of them go quite as far as the story I'm here to tell you guys today. Because poor Sna had her domain taken from her by NameCheep and then got sued for it. Yes, NameCheep sued her personally. I've never seen anything quite like this. And the story is as frustrating as it is heartbreaking. It has massively impacted her business and ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjte1s6vx7mrx2ehqnvf7)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - hard that conversation must be to explain to an investor who's possibly put millions of dollars into your business? Yeah. Sorry you can't see our website right now. I'm actually in the middle of a lawsuit. That's not what they invested into you for. They didn't invest into you so you could win lawsuits. They invested in you so you could win period. Despite multiple messages to name support, the company was unresponsive. So she, poor thing, had to sue NameCheep personally to recover the domain. Now, because of that, NameCheep is suing her back. NameCheep's claim is that the domain was registered in her name even though it ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjthcfvynx2fc73gtpvgm)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - have the right to do that at any point. Horrifying. And that creates massive uncertainty for founders. And now NameCheep is trying to win exorbitant legal fees from her despite the court saying that they deserve the domain back. So again, the court said she deserves the domain. NameCheep declined that and is now counter suing her and trying to squeeze legal fees out of her. The original CEO of NameCheep had tweeted previously saying that he'll get the domain back primarily because Gary Tan jumped in and asked questions. In the meantime, probably geoence India ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtngxyys583hcaa1f97q)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - this point, what am I referring to? When I mention Cloudflare or Versel, what comes to mind? It's probably not the domains product. Every domain I've personally registered in the last three years has been either on Verscell domains or it has been on Cloudflare's domains. Neither of these companies make money off of their domain selling. If anything, I'm pretty certain that Verscell loses money because they've been too generous about weird disputes. Like I had problems with my.gg domain on Versel because they didn't set up the registry process properly for that ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtyw7cqnwe0yxjmqjz41)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - specific TLD at the time. That's all been fixed and then some. At the time it was bad and cost some fees and Verscell just ate the fees for me. And that's not just because I'm Theo. That's because I was one of four people who were affected by this particular implementation failure and they refunded all four of us those fees that were in the thousands of dollars. So that just was a raw cost they ate because Verscell is not trying to make money off the domains. It's not like, oh, we lost this money off of these domains. Now we have to go sell 5,000 domains to make up for it. For them, it's much more so we lost the ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv4ednp7bn3rrb6vk9c3)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - what I have heard, most people haven't. And they also, the very least, in terms of reviews, seem to care a lot about how much people like them and use them. So, I would bet that if you had a problem and you went and complained on Trust Pilot or on Twitter, there's a good chance they'll hop in and deal with it. This is a fun back and forth that happened related to all of this. A few days later, someone had their domain that they were searching for on GoDaddy get purchased as they were searching and then resold to them. Like a a classic rugpull. Insanity. And it should absolutely be illegal. I agree with ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv8h76k0czedrwz1mrbx)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted ## New highlights added February 15, 2026 at 4:24 AM - I've been through it with country code TLDDS and domain registration in general. Almost every domain I have I've had some issue with at some point, but none of them go quite as far as the story I'm here to tell you guys today. Because poor Sna had her domain taken from her by NameCheep and then got sued for it. Yes, NameCheep sued her personally. I've never seen anything quite like this. And the story is as frustrating as it is heartbreaking. It has massively impacted her business and ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjte1s6vx7mrx2ehqnvf7)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - hard that conversation must be to explain to an investor who's possibly put millions of dollars into your business? Yeah. Sorry you can't see our website right now. I'm actually in the middle of a lawsuit. That's not what they invested into you for. They didn't invest into you so you could win lawsuits. They invested in you so you could win period. Despite multiple messages to name support, the company was unresponsive. So she, poor thing, had to sue NameCheep personally to recover the domain. Now, because of that, NameCheep is suing her back. NameCheep's claim is that the domain was registered in her name even though it ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjthcfvynx2fc73gtpvgm)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - have the right to do that at any point. Horrifying. And that creates massive uncertainty for founders. And now NameCheep is trying to win exorbitant legal fees from her despite the court saying that they deserve the domain back. So again, the court said she deserves the domain. NameCheep declined that and is now counter suing her and trying to squeeze legal fees out of her. The original CEO of NameCheep had tweeted previously saying that he'll get the domain back primarily because Gary Tan jumped in and asked questions. In the meantime, probably geoence India ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtngxyys583hcaa1f97q)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - this point, what am I referring to? When I mention Cloudflare or Versel, what comes to mind? It's probably not the domains product. Every domain I've personally registered in the last three years has been either on Verscell domains or it has been on Cloudflare's domains. Neither of these companies make money off of their domain selling. If anything, I'm pretty certain that Verscell loses money because they've been too generous about weird disputes. Like I had problems with my.gg domain on Versel because they didn't set up the registry process properly for that ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtyw7cqnwe0yxjmqjz41)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - specific TLD at the time. That's all been fixed and then some. At the time it was bad and cost some fees and Verscell just ate the fees for me. And that's not just because I'm Theo. That's because I was one of four people who were affected by this particular implementation failure and they refunded all four of us those fees that were in the thousands of dollars. So that just was a raw cost they ate because Verscell is not trying to make money off the domains. It's not like, oh, we lost this money off of these domains. Now we have to go sell 5,000 domains to make up for it. For them, it's much more so we lost the ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv4ednp7bn3rrb6vk9c3)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - what I have heard, most people haven't. And they also, the very least, in terms of reviews, seem to care a lot about how much people like them and use them. So, I would bet that if you had a problem and you went and complained on Trust Pilot or on Twitter, there's a good chance they'll hop in and deal with it. This is a fun back and forth that happened related to all of this. A few days later, someone had their domain that they were searching for on GoDaddy get purchased as they were searching and then resold to them. Like a a classic rugpull. Insanity. And it should absolutely be illegal. I agree with ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv8h76k0czedrwz1mrbx)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted ## New highlights added February 15, 2026 at 5:24 AM - I've been through it with country code TLDDS and domain registration in general. Almost every domain I have I've had some issue with at some point, but none of them go quite as far as the story I'm here to tell you guys today. Because poor Sna had her domain taken from her by NameCheep and then got sued for it. Yes, NameCheep sued her personally. I've never seen anything quite like this. And the story is as frustrating as it is heartbreaking. It has massively impacted her business and ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjte1s6vx7mrx2ehqnvf7)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - hard that conversation must be to explain to an investor who's possibly put millions of dollars into your business? Yeah. Sorry you can't see our website right now. I'm actually in the middle of a lawsuit. That's not what they invested into you for. They didn't invest into you so you could win lawsuits. They invested in you so you could win period. Despite multiple messages to name support, the company was unresponsive. So she, poor thing, had to sue NameCheep personally to recover the domain. Now, because of that, NameCheep is suing her back. NameCheep's claim is that the domain was registered in her name even though it ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjthcfvynx2fc73gtpvgm)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - have the right to do that at any point. Horrifying. And that creates massive uncertainty for founders. And now NameCheep is trying to win exorbitant legal fees from her despite the court saying that they deserve the domain back. So again, the court said she deserves the domain. NameCheep declined that and is now counter suing her and trying to squeeze legal fees out of her. The original CEO of NameCheep had tweeted previously saying that he'll get the domain back primarily because Gary Tan jumped in and asked questions. In the meantime, probably geoence India ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtngxyys583hcaa1f97q)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - this point, what am I referring to? When I mention Cloudflare or Versel, what comes to mind? It's probably not the domains product. Every domain I've personally registered in the last three years has been either on Verscell domains or it has been on Cloudflare's domains. Neither of these companies make money off of their domain selling. If anything, I'm pretty certain that Verscell loses money because they've been too generous about weird disputes. Like I had problems with my.gg domain on Versel because they didn't set up the registry process properly for that ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtyw7cqnwe0yxjmqjz41)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - specific TLD at the time. That's all been fixed and then some. At the time it was bad and cost some fees and Verscell just ate the fees for me. And that's not just because I'm Theo. That's because I was one of four people who were affected by this particular implementation failure and they refunded all four of us those fees that were in the thousands of dollars. So that just was a raw cost they ate because Verscell is not trying to make money off the domains. It's not like, oh, we lost this money off of these domains. Now we have to go sell 5,000 domains to make up for it. For them, it's much more so we lost the ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv4ednp7bn3rrb6vk9c3)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - what I have heard, most people haven't. And they also, the very least, in terms of reviews, seem to care a lot about how much people like them and use them. So, I would bet that if you had a problem and you went and complained on Trust Pilot or on Twitter, there's a good chance they'll hop in and deal with it. This is a fun back and forth that happened related to all of this. A few days later, someone had their domain that they were searching for on GoDaddy get purchased as they were searching and then resold to them. Like a a classic rugpull. Insanity. And it should absolutely be illegal. I agree with ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv8h76k0czedrwz1mrbx)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted ## New highlights added February 15, 2026 at 6:24 AM - I've been through it with country code TLDDS and domain registration in general. Almost every domain I have I've had some issue with at some point, but none of them go quite as far as the story I'm here to tell you guys today. Because poor Sna had her domain taken from her by NameCheep and then got sued for it. Yes, NameCheep sued her personally. I've never seen anything quite like this. And the story is as frustrating as it is heartbreaking. It has massively impacted her business and ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjte1s6vx7mrx2ehqnvf7)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - hard that conversation must be to explain to an investor who's possibly put millions of dollars into your business? Yeah. Sorry you can't see our website right now. I'm actually in the middle of a lawsuit. That's not what they invested into you for. They didn't invest into you so you could win lawsuits. They invested in you so you could win period. Despite multiple messages to name support, the company was unresponsive. So she, poor thing, had to sue NameCheep personally to recover the domain. Now, because of that, NameCheep is suing her back. NameCheep's claim is that the domain was registered in her name even though it ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjthcfvynx2fc73gtpvgm)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - have the right to do that at any point. Horrifying. And that creates massive uncertainty for founders. And now NameCheep is trying to win exorbitant legal fees from her despite the court saying that they deserve the domain back. So again, the court said she deserves the domain. NameCheep declined that and is now counter suing her and trying to squeeze legal fees out of her. The original CEO of NameCheep had tweeted previously saying that he'll get the domain back primarily because Gary Tan jumped in and asked questions. In the meantime, probably geoence India ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtngxyys583hcaa1f97q)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - this point, what am I referring to? When I mention Cloudflare or Versel, what comes to mind? It's probably not the domains product. Every domain I've personally registered in the last three years has been either on Verscell domains or it has been on Cloudflare's domains. Neither of these companies make money off of their domain selling. If anything, I'm pretty certain that Verscell loses money because they've been too generous about weird disputes. Like I had problems with my.gg domain on Versel because they didn't set up the registry process properly for that ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtyw7cqnwe0yxjmqjz41)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - specific TLD at the time. That's all been fixed and then some. At the time it was bad and cost some fees and Verscell just ate the fees for me. And that's not just because I'm Theo. That's because I was one of four people who were affected by this particular implementation failure and they refunded all four of us those fees that were in the thousands of dollars. So that just was a raw cost they ate because Verscell is not trying to make money off the domains. It's not like, oh, we lost this money off of these domains. Now we have to go sell 5,000 domains to make up for it. For them, it's much more so we lost the ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv4ednp7bn3rrb6vk9c3)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - what I have heard, most people haven't. And they also, the very least, in terms of reviews, seem to care a lot about how much people like them and use them. So, I would bet that if you had a problem and you went and complained on Trust Pilot or on Twitter, there's a good chance they'll hop in and deal with it. This is a fun back and forth that happened related to all of this. A few days later, someone had their domain that they were searching for on GoDaddy get purchased as they were searching and then resold to them. Like a a classic rugpull. Insanity. And it should absolutely be illegal. I agree with ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv8h76k0czedrwz1mrbx)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted ## New highlights added February 15, 2026 at 7:24 AM - I've been through it with country code TLDDS and domain registration in general. Almost every domain I have I've had some issue with at some point, but none of them go quite as far as the story I'm here to tell you guys today. Because poor Sna had her domain taken from her by NameCheep and then got sued for it. Yes, NameCheep sued her personally. I've never seen anything quite like this. And the story is as frustrating as it is heartbreaking. It has massively impacted her business and ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjte1s6vx7mrx2ehqnvf7)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - hard that conversation must be to explain to an investor who's possibly put millions of dollars into your business? Yeah. Sorry you can't see our website right now. I'm actually in the middle of a lawsuit. That's not what they invested into you for. They didn't invest into you so you could win lawsuits. They invested in you so you could win period. Despite multiple messages to name support, the company was unresponsive. So she, poor thing, had to sue NameCheep personally to recover the domain. Now, because of that, NameCheep is suing her back. NameCheep's claim is that the domain was registered in her name even though it ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjthcfvynx2fc73gtpvgm)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - have the right to do that at any point. Horrifying. And that creates massive uncertainty for founders. And now NameCheep is trying to win exorbitant legal fees from her despite the court saying that they deserve the domain back. So again, the court said she deserves the domain. NameCheep declined that and is now counter suing her and trying to squeeze legal fees out of her. The original CEO of NameCheep had tweeted previously saying that he'll get the domain back primarily because Gary Tan jumped in and asked questions. In the meantime, probably geoence India ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtngxyys583hcaa1f97q)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - this point, what am I referring to? When I mention Cloudflare or Versel, what comes to mind? It's probably not the domains product. Every domain I've personally registered in the last three years has been either on Verscell domains or it has been on Cloudflare's domains. Neither of these companies make money off of their domain selling. If anything, I'm pretty certain that Verscell loses money because they've been too generous about weird disputes. Like I had problems with my.gg domain on Versel because they didn't set up the registry process properly for that ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtyw7cqnwe0yxjmqjz41)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - specific TLD at the time. That's all been fixed and then some. At the time it was bad and cost some fees and Verscell just ate the fees for me. And that's not just because I'm Theo. That's because I was one of four people who were affected by this particular implementation failure and they refunded all four of us those fees that were in the thousands of dollars. So that just was a raw cost they ate because Verscell is not trying to make money off the domains. It's not like, oh, we lost this money off of these domains. Now we have to go sell 5,000 domains to make up for it. For them, it's much more so we lost the ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv4ednp7bn3rrb6vk9c3)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - what I have heard, most people haven't. And they also, the very least, in terms of reviews, seem to care a lot about how much people like them and use them. So, I would bet that if you had a problem and you went and complained on Trust Pilot or on Twitter, there's a good chance they'll hop in and deal with it. This is a fun back and forth that happened related to all of this. A few days later, someone had their domain that they were searching for on GoDaddy get purchased as they were searching and then resold to them. Like a a classic rugpull. Insanity. And it should absolutely be illegal. I agree with ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv8h76k0czedrwz1mrbx)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted ## New highlights added February 15, 2026 at 8:24 AM - I've been through it with country code TLDDS and domain registration in general. Almost every domain I have I've had some issue with at some point, but none of them go quite as far as the story I'm here to tell you guys today. Because poor Sna had her domain taken from her by NameCheep and then got sued for it. Yes, NameCheep sued her personally. I've never seen anything quite like this. And the story is as frustrating as it is heartbreaking. It has massively impacted her business and ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjte1s6vx7mrx2ehqnvf7)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - hard that conversation must be to explain to an investor who's possibly put millions of dollars into your business? Yeah. Sorry you can't see our website right now. I'm actually in the middle of a lawsuit. That's not what they invested into you for. They didn't invest into you so you could win lawsuits. They invested in you so you could win period. Despite multiple messages to name support, the company was unresponsive. So she, poor thing, had to sue NameCheep personally to recover the domain. Now, because of that, NameCheep is suing her back. NameCheep's claim is that the domain was registered in her name even though it ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjthcfvynx2fc73gtpvgm)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - have the right to do that at any point. Horrifying. And that creates massive uncertainty for founders. And now NameCheep is trying to win exorbitant legal fees from her despite the court saying that they deserve the domain back. So again, the court said she deserves the domain. NameCheep declined that and is now counter suing her and trying to squeeze legal fees out of her. The original CEO of NameCheep had tweeted previously saying that he'll get the domain back primarily because Gary Tan jumped in and asked questions. In the meantime, probably geoence India ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtngxyys583hcaa1f97q)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - this point, what am I referring to? When I mention Cloudflare or Versel, what comes to mind? It's probably not the domains product. Every domain I've personally registered in the last three years has been either on Verscell domains or it has been on Cloudflare's domains. Neither of these companies make money off of their domain selling. If anything, I'm pretty certain that Verscell loses money because they've been too generous about weird disputes. Like I had problems with my.gg domain on Versel because they didn't set up the registry process properly for that ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtyw7cqnwe0yxjmqjz41)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - specific TLD at the time. That's all been fixed and then some. At the time it was bad and cost some fees and Verscell just ate the fees for me. And that's not just because I'm Theo. That's because I was one of four people who were affected by this particular implementation failure and they refunded all four of us those fees that were in the thousands of dollars. So that just was a raw cost they ate because Verscell is not trying to make money off the domains. It's not like, oh, we lost this money off of these domains. Now we have to go sell 5,000 domains to make up for it. For them, it's much more so we lost the ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv4ednp7bn3rrb6vk9c3)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - what I have heard, most people haven't. And they also, the very least, in terms of reviews, seem to care a lot about how much people like them and use them. So, I would bet that if you had a problem and you went and complained on Trust Pilot or on Twitter, there's a good chance they'll hop in and deal with it. This is a fun back and forth that happened related to all of this. A few days later, someone had their domain that they were searching for on GoDaddy get purchased as they were searching and then resold to them. Like a a classic rugpull. Insanity. And it should absolutely be illegal. I agree with ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv8h76k0czedrwz1mrbx)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted ## New highlights added February 15, 2026 at 12:03 PM - I've been through it with country code TLDDS and domain registration in general. Almost every domain I have I've had some issue with at some point, but none of them go quite as far as the story I'm here to tell you guys today. Because poor Sna had her domain taken from her by NameCheep and then got sued for it. Yes, NameCheep sued her personally. I've never seen anything quite like this. And the story is as frustrating as it is heartbreaking. It has massively impacted her business and ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjte1s6vx7mrx2ehqnvf7)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - hard that conversation must be to explain to an investor who's possibly put millions of dollars into your business? Yeah. Sorry you can't see our website right now. I'm actually in the middle of a lawsuit. That's not what they invested into you for. They didn't invest into you so you could win lawsuits. They invested in you so you could win period. Despite multiple messages to name support, the company was unresponsive. So she, poor thing, had to sue NameCheep personally to recover the domain. Now, because of that, NameCheep is suing her back. NameCheep's claim is that the domain was registered in her name even though it ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjthcfvynx2fc73gtpvgm)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - have the right to do that at any point. Horrifying. And that creates massive uncertainty for founders. And now NameCheep is trying to win exorbitant legal fees from her despite the court saying that they deserve the domain back. So again, the court said she deserves the domain. NameCheep declined that and is now counter suing her and trying to squeeze legal fees out of her. The original CEO of NameCheep had tweeted previously saying that he'll get the domain back primarily because Gary Tan jumped in and asked questions. In the meantime, probably geoence India ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtngxyys583hcaa1f97q)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - this point, what am I referring to? When I mention Cloudflare or Versel, what comes to mind? It's probably not the domains product. Every domain I've personally registered in the last three years has been either on Verscell domains or it has been on Cloudflare's domains. Neither of these companies make money off of their domain selling. If anything, I'm pretty certain that Verscell loses money because they've been too generous about weird disputes. Like I had problems with my.gg domain on Versel because they didn't set up the registry process properly for that ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjtyw7cqnwe0yxjmqjz41)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - specific TLD at the time. That's all been fixed and then some. At the time it was bad and cost some fees and Verscell just ate the fees for me. And that's not just because I'm Theo. That's because I was one of four people who were affected by this particular implementation failure and they refunded all four of us those fees that were in the thousands of dollars. So that just was a raw cost they ate because Verscell is not trying to make money off the domains. It's not like, oh, we lost this money off of these domains. Now we have to go sell 5,000 domains to make up for it. For them, it's much more so we lost the ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv4ednp7bn3rrb6vk9c3)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - what I have heard, most people haven't. And they also, the very least, in terms of reviews, seem to care a lot about how much people like them and use them. So, I would bet that if you had a problem and you went and complained on Trust Pilot or on Twitter, there's a good chance they'll hop in and deal with it. This is a fun back and forth that happened related to all of this. A few days later, someone had their domain that they were searching for on GoDaddy get purchased as they were searching and then resold to them. Like a a classic rugpull. Insanity. And it should absolutely be illegal. I agree with ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khfhjv8h76k0czedrwz1mrbx)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted