I had 1 domain + 3 mailboxes with them.
Leaved 3 months ago for njalla (domain only) and tutanota
Gandi.net – Pricing Update
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#32Any reccomended alternatives? I've used them because they seemed the most reputable in the murky world of domain name providers.
I've been using DNSimple for a decade or so and no complaints.
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#33I have a single domain with 2 emails on it. What's the cheapest migration option for mail? I want to use a company with human tech support in case something goes wrong one day. No tech giants.
I've been using PurelyMail[1] (it's been on hacker news a couple of times already) for about a year now and haven't had any issues with it. It uses consumption-based pricing so for my use (with two domains set up) it comes out to about $0.5/month. I think it's a small team (maybe just one person?) that maintains it.
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#34No forewarning, no post on the website, no justification, and the nasty news buried in the middle of unrelated text. It appears designed to deceive. “No bullshit” is no more. https://www.gandi.net/en/no-bullshit That promise is what justified their slightly higher prices. With it broken, I have no reason not to transfer to a less expensive registrar. So that I’ve now done, and Gandi can try to win me back next year.
> No forewarning
This is announcing the shutdown of their previous offering 5 months in advance. I'd call that a forewarning.
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#35What's a good alternative registrar based in the EU? What an unethical move, they rescind already paid contracts/accounts and the price hike is insane. The went from "no BS" to full of it. I intend to move all my domains. I also paid for the "premium" email service. But it went from 25€ per year to 86€ ! Domains are also getting a price hike and web hosting too. Time to move
I use www.inwx.de for years. Nothing to complain.
Another happy INWX user for 15+ years.
Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update
#36What's a good alternative registrar based in the EU? What an unethical move, they rescind already paid contracts/accounts and the price hike is insane. The went from "no BS" to full of it. I intend to move all my domains. I also paid for the "premium" email service. But it went from 25€ per year to 86€ ! Domains are also getting a price hike and web hosting too. Time to move
BookMyName.com, just look at their interface! ;)
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#37Any reccomended alternatives? I've used them because they seemed the most reputable in the murky world of domain name providers.
- DNSSimple is good (for domains/DNS)
- Fastmail and Protonmail are good options for email
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#38They got bought out by a PE firm that's gobbling up registrars, DNS providers and similar. Mostly a moneygrab, so expect prices to increase and product/tech to deteriorate.
I love capitalism in general, but PE firms are mostly a net-negative. They try to squeeze profit out of a company while owning it for 3-5 years, and then selling it at a higher multiple. They usually do this by cutting R&D, jacking up prices and cutting costs (for example moving HQ to some remote area, losing half of staff in the process, but hey, costs are down in Q3…).
Good firms are those that have stable owners and leadership over 20+ years. At that time span, it's obvious that short-sighted cost cutting and customer-hostile behavior is just stupid, which is why fewer such firms does it.
Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update
#39No forewarning, no post on the website, no justification, and the nasty news buried in the middle of unrelated text. It appears designed to deceive. “No bullshit” is no more. https://www.gandi.net/en/no-bullshit That promise is what justified their slightly higher prices. With it broken, I have no reason not to transfer to a less expensive registrar. So that I’ve now done, and Gandi can try to win me back next year.
Existing customers will retain the free service for renewals done for the next month until they shut it down, and even then the cost of the new email service is a fraction of what you pay for Microsofts or Google custom domain emails. I have a mailbox there for my domain so I hope they can introduce some easy way to just pre-pay for a longer period.
Their premium email service will be $5.99/mo going forward. The equivalent Exchange Online plan is $4.80/mo in year 1 (or $4 with 12mo commitment), then additional $12/yr for the custom domain i.e. $5.80/mo in year 2 - that's cheaper than Gandi?
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#40Gandi are so gross. Had an issue 5 years back now where their site/my connection glitched and they double charged me. It was the most confrontational support exchange I've had (even to this day), and in the end had to go the chargeback route and move my domains off their service.
Never quite understood it as the attitude persisted even as my complaint was (apparently) escalated.
The chargeback itself sent them into orbit.