Green hosting guide

Is Namecheap green?

What we can show about Namecheap's hosting, each piece with its source and the date we checked it.

Evidence checked 16 October 2026. Green Web Foundation directory checked 17 October 2026.

Green Web Foundation

No matching entry in the Green Web Foundation's directory when we checked on 17 October 2026.

We looked for a provider with Namecheap's website and found none. That says nothing either way about the energy behind its hosting; the evidence below is Namecheap's own.

What GWF verification means, and its new criteria

Where its data centres are

Namecheap's servers in data centres run by other companies, in Phoenix, Amsterdam, Singapore and Farnborough.

Each country's average grid carbon intensity, from Ember: the grid where the data centres are, not the provider's own supply.
CountryGrid averageYear
United States384 gCO2e/kWh2025
Netherlands254 gCO2e/kWh2025
Singapore497 gCO2e/kWh2025
United Kingdom218 gCO2e/kWh2025

The datacenters are located in the USA, United Kingdom, Europe and Asia.

https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/136/22/where-are-your-datacenters-located/ 17 August 2026

Grid figures: Ember, Yearly electricity data (2026), CC BY 4.0.

Namecheap's own evidence

Shared hosting

Our datacenters in the Netherlands, Singapore, and United Kingdom are powered by 100% renewable power sources.

https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/shared/ Undated

Covers
The Netherlands, Singapore and UK data centres only.
Backed by
not stated
Note
The US data centre, where Namecheap's VPS and dedicated servers run, is not included.

Compared with

Our checker on its website

When the checker launches, this section will show its measurement of Namecheap's own website: a fact about that one website, not about how its customers' sites are hosted.

Listing data from the Green Web Foundation's Green Web Dataset, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL).

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