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Namecheap is significantly worse than Gandi and amongst the absolute bottom feeder domain providers. I'd recommend cancelling your transfer ASAP.
What's wrong with namecheap?
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Gandi.net – Pricing Update
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Yes - when the first wave of emails hit EU users several months ago, I complained on HN that I'd be fine with paying for GandiMail as long as I had 6 months notice or whatever. The email I got today was pretty clear and no-BS, it says flat out that pricing changes are effective in 30 days for "all our existing services and the new Mailbox service" - price hikes aren't exactly fun, but my domain is registered out for…
Since I just use it for forwarding aliases, is there any reason to get the more expensive mail plan? The Sieve support looks pretty nice.
Probably no reason, they said forwards will remain free. Hopefully that includes aliases as well, I've got a wildcard alias that is awesome to use.
How do you know they're adding Sieve support? The email just says "Better anti-spam"
The email also says "Stronger email server security" which I hope means they are fixing their MFA scheme - I've sent an email to their new support address to confirm this.
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Since I just use it for forwarding aliases, is there any reason to get the more expensive mail plan? The Sieve support looks pretty nice.
Probably no reason, they said forwards will remain free. Hopefully that includes aliases as well, I've got a wildcard alias that is awesome to use. How do you know they're adding Sieve support? The email just says "Better anti-spam" The email also says "Stronger email server security" which I hope means they are fixing their MFA scheme - I've sent an email to their new support address to confirm this.
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> No forewarning This is announcing the shutdown of their previous offering 5 months in advance. I'd call that a forewarning.
Yes - when the first wave of emails hit EU users several months ago, I complained on HN that I'd be fine with paying for GandiMail as long as I had 6 months notice or whatever. The email I got today was pretty clear and no-BS, it says flat out that pricing changes are effective in 30 days for "all our existing services and the new Mailbox service" - price hikes aren't exactly fun, but my domain is registered out for…
It's not cool they are seemingly terminating a service I've already paid for. I say seemingly because their FAQ pressures you to opt-in to their new mail service as soon as possible and is vague on whether or not GandiMail will remain usable after November. That's BS to me; I'll transfer out even if it means paying more elsewhere.
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#105It's especially frustrating for me since they're the only registrar to support my chosen TLD of .cx :/
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#106What'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! ;)
From the about page [1] they're Scaleway. Perhaps worth looking into!
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#107It's especially frustrating for me since they're the only registrar to support my chosen TLD of .cx :/
No it's not…? https://tld-list.com/tld/cx
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#109Hi, Tutanota team here. In case you're looking for a new mailbox, Tutanota might be an option. We've also had a pricing update recently, but legacy users are allowed to keep what they have in full. Plus, we have a 50% offer running at the moment: https://tutanota.com/blog/announcement-new-prices
I have Used your service and Liked it but To this day i cannot wrap my head around the fact that i cannot bulk export my emails. The vendor lock in is huge and the feature has been in progress for very long time and i decided it was not worth the wait and left the service since tutanota does not allow IMAP. What a shame.
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Pricing, stability and security. As per usual.
What makes a domain registration unstable or insecure?
There are probably many valid answers to this, but my concern would be about bugs or other security failings allowing an attacker to alter one's registration details (e.g. nameservers). This could be catastrophic, since everyone seems to base their security on email (e.g. password resets) these days, in true "pass the hard problem of identity and authentication on to someone else" fashion.
In other words, whoever controls the registration controls the nameservers, and whoever controls the nameservers controls the MX records, and whoever controls the MX records can reset passwords. (Ideally, we'd all be using MFA for every possible thing, but in practice that may not be possible for the hundreds of services one might be using.)