After 10+ years Namecheap refused to match the cheaper price of its sister company Spaceship, so they moved.
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
40% Positive7%53% Negative
Long-time customers often call it reliable for domains, with cheap first-year prices and many TLDs.
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Customer reviews (311)
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Got a .com at 50 percent off a year ago and was surprised by the renewal amount, feeling Namecheap hides renewal prices on cheap domains.
Moving domains off Namecheap because cheaper options exist and Namecheap offers nothing to justify its higher cost.
Left Namecheap after realizing renewals cost several dollars more per domain than Porkbun.
Used Namecheap since 2008 and moved dozens of clients, but since the private equity acquisition service has dropped, prices risen and fraud tools lock long-standing accounts.
Used Namecheap for many years and moved most domains to Cloudflare: Namecheap is way more expensive and its website is poor.
A longtime Namecheap fan who moved away because renewing through Cloudflare is cheaper.
Namecheap sold out: support is the worst and prices up on everything, so they are moving to Porkbun.
Long-time Namecheap customer finds renewals 50 percent more than Porkbun and support chat pointed them to Spaceship.
Namecheap went from competitive to ~50% above Porkbun, support is hit or miss, and an auction domain was relisted at 100x within minutes.
Namecheap nearly tripled their rates in two years; moving hundreds of dollars of domains to Porkbun.
After 15 years at Namecheap, renewals rose from about $8.99 to close to $15 and they are looking for alternatives.
Namecheap domain renewals are up at least 50 percent over a couple of years while Cloudflare domains stayed the same.
Bought a domain from Namecheap for 2 dollars and the renewal is 17, while Porkbun keeps renewals about the same.
Renewal showed 11.98 at purchase but a year later Namecheap charged 16.98 plus ICANN fee, so they stopped using it.
Namecheap hiked their domain as premium, would not allow a transfer and then sold it to a third party.
Namecheap prices rose since 2016 so most domains moved to Spaceship.
After Namecheap since 2003, moved all domains to Porkbun because prices got too high and Namecheap offered nothing extra.
Moving around 300 domains from Namecheap to Porkbun because Namecheap has doubled its .com price in a decade.
After a 12-year-old domain lapsed Namecheap wants 6500 dollars to get it back.
Moved all domains from Namecheap, which charged 18 for .coms, to Porkbun at around 11.
Moved all domains away from Namecheap because renewal was too expensive.
Namecheap used to be cheap but now creeps up every year.
Namecheap announced another .com price increase; renewals were 16.88 not long ago.
Customer since 2002 who says Namecheap went downhill a long time ago.
Transferred 5 domains out of Namecheap because it has been overpriced, particularly on renewals.
Left Namecheap after about 9 years because prices got too high and moved everything to Dynadot.
After 10+ years at Namecheap is moving all domains to Porkbun because Namecheap renewal costs more, with no support needs at Porkbun.
Moving renewals to Spaceship because it is cheaper than Namecheap, which has been anything but cheap.
Namecheap raises prices almost every year, so they moved domains to Cloudflare a year or two ago.
Dumped Namecheap, which marks costs up well beyond actual ICANN fees.
Namecheap renewals reached nearly 20 dollars for .us and 54 for .digital.
Moved everything from Namecheap to Porkbun after noticing they were paying double the rate.
Namecheap notified that .com renewals rise from 12.95 to about 19.99, up from 5.99 when they first transferred from Network Solutions.
Looking to move from Namecheap to Cloudflare because Namecheap has not been cheap lately.
Switched a .tech domain from Namecheap to Cloudflare because Namecheap renewal went up and Cloudflare was cheaper.
Left Namecheap because it used the latest ICANN fee hike to raise its prices more than necessary.
Moved all domains to Porkbun over about 50% Namecheap price increases.
A Namecheap domain customer is moving domains away because Namecheap's prices have gone up.
Moving from Namecheap to Porkbun because of renewal pricing.
Left Namecheap due to high renewal fees and went to Spaceship.
Namecheap tripled the renewal price of their .com domain in one year.
Namecheap hiked domain prices while claiming free WHOIS privacy; moved to Porkbun.
Namecheap raised renewals about 50 percent on nearly every TLD they own in a year, forcing them to drop a few hobby domains.
Most Namecheap renewals are coming at $15.99 for a standard .com, versus under $11 at Cloudflare.
Namecheap raised premium domain and dedicated IP prices by 100 percent and their WordPress keeps getting hacked, so they will move.
Loyal Namecheap customer with 40+ domains and 2 hosting accounts who is looking to leave because of recent price hikes.
Checked Namecheap and found it almost 30 percent more expensive than Porkbun and Spaceship.
Moved all domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap, but says Namecheap has since started acting like GoDaddy and it is time to switch again.
Long-time customer fed up with cheap first-year domain prices that jump sharply on renewal.
Common questions about Namecheap
What do customers say about Namecheap?
Long-time customers often call it reliable for domains, with cheap first-year prices and many TLDs. The main complaints are renewal prices that have climbed and support that is hit or miss, with some accounts or domains locked over fraud checks. Some say it is fine for domains but would not host there.
Is Namecheap worth it?
Of the 202 reviews with a clear verdict, 40% are positive, 7% mixed and 53% negative. The praise mentioned most is reliable. The most common complaint is poor support.
What do people like about Namecheap?
The praise reviewers mention most: reliable (53 reviews), helpful support (30 reviews) and great value (11 reviews). For example: Runs 5 Namecheap domains with 10+ subdomains each on Let’s Encrypt via Nginx Proxy Manager with no SSL issues.
What are the most common complaints about Namecheap?
The complaints reviewers mention most: poor support (57 reviews), renewal price hike (51 reviews) and surprise bill (14 reviews). For example: Wasted a whole afternoon trying to renew a domain on Namecheap with card errors before it finally went through.
What does the signal score of 70 mean?
It's how well reviewed Namecheap is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of Namecheap?
Category: Domain registrar.
Where do these Namecheap reviews come from?
311 are quotes from Reddit and YouTube, each linked to the original. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.