PayPal Cuts Service to Crypto-Funded Domain Registrar Hosting Right-Wing Sites
A report suggests the action may be over the firm's digital currency, Masterbucks.
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Namecheap, the domain registrar, has announced that it will now take bitcoin as a form of payment for its services. It also claims that it is the first major domain registrar to do so. This has come after a wave of popular demand for the cryptocurrency. Not only that, but also in response to popular demand, it will accept payment in bitcoin with "zero confirmations" (i.e. the transaction has not yet been verified in the global block chain) so as to provide an instant service to customers. It's a notable risk for Namecheap to accept zero-confirmation transactions. This means that they would....
Domain registrar and cloud hosting services provider Gandi.net, known for its "no bullshit" ideology and lack of advertising will now start offering bitcoin as a payment method for its customers. In paying heed to their customers' suggestions, chief among them a Bitcoin payment option, online services provider Gandi.net will start accepting the cryptocurrency as a payment method. The news came as a reveal when the company's Twitter account let the news slip while responding to a customer: @arthurbouquet bjr, oui ça arrive vite ! (24 48h) 😉. - gandi.net (@gandibar) October 15, 2015. The....
After launching the TON DNS, the TON Foundation will conduct an auction of the first “.ton” domain names on July 30. The Open Network (TON) Foundation is the latest cryptocurrency company to upgrade its ecosystem with Ethereum Name Service (ENS)-like domain names.The TON Foundation on Thursday announced the launch of TON DNS, a new service that allows users to assign human-readable names to crypto wallets, smart contracts and websites.Similar to other popular crypto-related domain names like “.eth” or “.crypto” the domain zone for TON DNS is “.ton” and will enable users to access....
Domain name giant Namecheap now accepts Bitcoin as payment for its services, becoming the first major domain registrar to accept Bitcoin from its customers.