Namecheap runs emergency maintenance after a power outage at its Phoenix datacenter

Sources: primary, discussion
Summary: Namecheap's status page carries an entry timestamped 2026-08-13 08:35 America/New_York, which is 12:35 UTC, stating that the company is responding to an emergency caused by a power outage at its Phoenix datacenter, with Domains, EasyWP, General, Hosting, and Private email listed as the affected categories and the support helpdesk also affected with live chat unavailable. A separate entry timestamped 07:42 America/New_York reports EasyWP managed hosting servers unreachable on named ingress records. No end time and no post-incident report were published at the time of reading.
Why it matters: A registrar incident reaches DNS and domain management for customers whose sites run elsewhere, so the blast radius is wider than the hosting products named.
Follow-up: Record the end time and the published cause, neither of which the status page carries yet.