Don't buy from NameCheap apparently. Web hosting company deletes archive of 300+ murdered Gaza journalists’ work
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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/16938
Web hosting company deletes archive of 300+ murdered Gaza journalists’ work
Domain registrar and web hosting company Namecheap has obliterated the work of over 300 Gaza journalists murdered by Israel. The mass deletion has led to accusations that Israel is trying to wipe out records of its countless crimes in Gaza.
Namecheap: deleting history
Namecheap revoked the domain of a digital memorial honouring the victims of Israel’s targeted murder of journalists in Gaza. The revocation removed an archive of over 16,000 videos, most of which documented Israel’s genocide and war crimes.
Namecheap allowed an Israeli website to register in May 2024 that targeted Palestinian children. The US-based firm justified its decision to delete the journalism archive by claiming that the content:
promotes, encourages, or depicts cruelty toward humans or animals.
Right.
The ‘Zionism Observer’ X account, which ran the archive, said that the videos catalogued atrocities by Israel. These crimes included the murder of children and the blocking of ambulances. The account has engaged in a debate with Namecheap CEO Richard Kirkendall about the deletion, accusing him of lying and deflecting in his responses, including a claim that they had requested the move to a different domain registrar:
Hey @namecheapceo123: since you just compared Palestinian journalists to ISIS beheading videos to justify censoring Databases for Palestine, could you at least respond to this? https://t.co/K8GH4a4OhT
— Zionism Observer (@receipts_lol) January 2, 2026
This is not true. https://t.co/tRv3ryouby
— Zionism Observer (@receipts_lol) January 2, 2026
Also, do you not know how domain registration works?
— Zionism Observer (@receipts_lol) January 2, 2026
Namecheap then began deleting tweets on its company X account that had attempted to explain away the deletion of the site:
Reached a new phase in the @namecheap censorship saga.
They are now deleting their own tweets, which they originally claimed clarified the reason for the censorship. pic.twitter.com/F6h3TddW8H
— Zionism Observer (@receipts_lol) January 3, 2026
Systemic human rights violations
Human rights watchdogs say Israel has long barred international journalists from Gaza while it erases physical evidence of its crimes. This scrubbing has escalated murderously with Israel’s new ban on almost 40 medical and humanitarian charities from entering Gaza.
Now anti-genocide and international law campaigners fear that the colony and its advocates are pressuring firms to do the same. However, Zionism Observer appears confident the scrubbed information can be restored:
We cannot share it until we recover from the Namecheap deplatform, but we’ve archived hundreds of videos of Israelis blocking ambulances. https://t.co/F3Ws9bMRug
— Zionism Observer (@receipts_lol) January 2, 2026
Israeli war criminals and genociders must be held to account. Their attempt to hide their crimes by murdering hundreds of Palestinian journalists, often with their families, must fail. If any attempt is being made to scrub the internet of their evidence and testimonies, that must fail too.
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Web hosting company deletes archive of 300+ murdered Gaza journalists' work
Namecheap revoked the domain of a digital memorial honouring the victims of Israel's targeted murder of journalists in Gaza
Canary (www.thecanary.co)
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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/16938
Web hosting company deletes archive of 300+ murdered Gaza journalists’ work
Domain registrar and web hosting company Namecheap has obliterated the work of over 300 Gaza journalists murdered by Israel. The mass deletion has led to accusations that Israel is trying to wipe out records of its countless crimes in Gaza.
Namecheap: deleting history
Namecheap revoked the domain of a digital memorial honouring the victims of Israel’s targeted murder of journalists in Gaza. The revocation removed an archive of over 16,000 videos, most of which documented Israel’s genocide and war crimes.
Namecheap allowed an Israeli website to register in May 2024 that targeted Palestinian children. The US-based firm justified its decision to delete the journalism archive by claiming that the content:
promotes, encourages, or depicts cruelty toward humans or animals.
Right.
The ‘Zionism Observer’ X account, which ran the archive, said that the videos catalogued atrocities by Israel. These crimes included the murder of children and the blocking of ambulances. The account has engaged in a debate with Namecheap CEO Richard Kirkendall about the deletion, accusing him of lying and deflecting in his responses, including a claim that they had requested the move to a different domain registrar:
Hey @namecheapceo123: since you just compared Palestinian journalists to ISIS beheading videos to justify censoring Databases for Palestine, could you at least respond to this? https://t.co/K8GH4a4OhT
— Zionism Observer (@receipts_lol) January 2, 2026
This is not true. https://t.co/tRv3ryouby
— Zionism Observer (@receipts_lol) January 2, 2026
Also, do you not know how domain registration works?
— Zionism Observer (@receipts_lol) January 2, 2026
Namecheap then began deleting tweets on its company X account that had attempted to explain away the deletion of the site:
Reached a new phase in the @namecheap censorship saga.
They are now deleting their own tweets, which they originally claimed clarified the reason for the censorship. pic.twitter.com/F6h3TddW8H
— Zionism Observer (@receipts_lol) January 3, 2026
Systemic human rights violations
Human rights watchdogs say Israel has long barred international journalists from Gaza while it erases physical evidence of its crimes. This scrubbing has escalated murderously with Israel’s new ban on almost 40 medical and humanitarian charities from entering Gaza.
Now anti-genocide and international law campaigners fear that the colony and its advocates are pressuring firms to do the same. However, Zionism Observer appears confident the scrubbed information can be restored:
We cannot share it until we recover from the Namecheap deplatform, but we’ve archived hundreds of videos of Israelis blocking ambulances. https://t.co/F3Ws9bMRug
— Zionism Observer (@receipts_lol) January 2, 2026
Israeli war criminals and genociders must be held to account. Their attempt to hide their crimes by murdering hundreds of Palestinian journalists, often with their families, must fail. If any attempt is being made to scrub the internet of their evidence and testimonies, that must fail too.
Featured image via the Canary
By Skwawkbox
From Canary via This RSS Feed.
Web hosting company deletes archive of 300+ murdered Gaza journalists' work
Namecheap revoked the domain of a digital memorial honouring the victims of Israel's targeted murder of journalists in Gaza
Canary (www.thecanary.co)
For others trying to figure out what actually happened and having difficulty sorting through the incendiary language in the posted article (which left out all kinds of relevant information):
Namecheap said their staff saw the domain registered at Namecheap hosting explicit violent videos and pictures which they say is against their Terms of Service. Namecheap apparently reached out to Zionism Observer, the owner of the domain and did not receive a reply in 48 hours.
Namecheap then disabled the domain (no deletion of data from what I can see). Namecheap agrees it was a mistake on Namecheap's part to disable the domain. They then facilitate the transfer of the domain to a new registrar Zionism Observer chose.
I can certainly understand the anger for all of this happening, but I don't like the article skipping important information so we can actually understand what happened. The article's writing suggests data was deleted, but there's no evidence of that or any data lost, just the disabling of the domain. It makes me not trust the journalistic integrity of site when they do this.
