Namecheap is an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar[1] providing domain name registration and web hosting based in Phoenix, Arizona, US. Namecheap is a budget hosting provider with 11 million registered users and 10 million domains, Namecheap was founded by Richard Kirkendall in 2000.[citation needed][3]

In March 2013, Namecheap started to accept Bitcoin as a payment method.[4]

In February 2022, Namecheap announced that they would terminate services to Russian accounts due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, citing "war crimes and human rights violations". Existing users were given a one-week grace period to move their domains.[5] The company also announced that it would be offering free anonymous domain registration and web hosting to all protest and anti-war websites in Russia or Belarus. ICANN price caps decision
In July 2019, Namecheap was one of the organizations that filed a reconsideration request to ICANN asking to review the decision to remove price caps on .org and ..