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Originally Posted by ruff
I thought Namecheap became a stand alone registrar the last year or two ago. I seem to remember something about that change. Anybody know what happened to that? They were no longer going to be a reseller.
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You are correct. NameCheap is an ICANN accredited registrar.
However, NameCheap still registers most user domains through eNom.
And that's where the LegitScript / eNom partnership risk comes in...
While most people won't be affected by that particular partnership, be aware it's likely eNom will, or perhaps already has, entered into other "partnerships" that could put many other domains at risk of loss.
In short, eNom is a business risk that some here seek to avoid - often when one registers domains at NameCheap, they are, in effect, really registering it at eNom.
To check whether your .com, .net, .org, .info NameCheap domain(s) has really been registered at eNom see the following links
.COM and .NET Registry
http://registrar.verisign-grs.com/whois/
.ORG Registry (whois is at the upper-right top)
http://www.pir.org/
.INFO Registry
http://www.info.info/whois
If the registrar of record says eNom or some variant - then, despite registering it NameCheap, you're really an eNom customer and eNom's policies, including their "partnerships" apply to you too - NameCheap is unable to help much, if at all, in such instances - you're often at the sole mercy of eNom!
Ron