Namecheap Changelog
2 dated changes to Namecheap that we have logged and sourced, newest first — pricing moves, launches, deprecations and incidents. The most recent is 2025-09-01.
Everything that has changed
- Pricing
Verisign takes another permitted .com increase
Verisign applied one of its contractually permitted annual .com wholesale increases. At-cost registrars such as Cloudflare passed it through within days and their retail prices moved in lockstep. The retail tier mostly absorbed it into a larger scheduled rise, which is why the gap between the cheap and expensive registrars widened in dollars while narrowing in percentage terms.Logged in the domain registrars comparisonAlso affects cloudflare registrarAlso affects porkbunAlso affects godaddy - Launch
Spaceship becomes Namecheap's front line
Through the first half of 2025 the Namecheap group pushed Spaceship as its primary consumer-facing brand, with the newest dashboard, the most aggressive first-year .com pricing and bundled mailbox trials. The older Namecheap product continues unchanged. The practical effect for buyers is two brands from one company with the same renewal economics and different interfaces.Logged in the domain registrars comparisonAlso affects spaceship
How this changelog is kept
Events are written by hand and dated to the day the change took effect, not the day we noticed. Each one names the tools it affects, so a shared change — a cloud provider raising egress prices across four products — appears on every profile it touches rather than being duplicated four times.
Everything here also flows into the site-wide changelog, which is the cross-tool feed of what is moving in developer infrastructure pricing.