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Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

#121

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I use service A for domains, service B for DNS and service C for emails.

Could you disclose what B is? Pretty much please?

DNS Made Easy - perhaps too costly now, and not the best, but I use them since 10 years and had no issue with them. But might be oversized, I've started to use them for a startup b/c they had failover to point to another load balancer if one balancer/data center is down.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

#122

This is why I only use service A for domains. And service B for emails.

I use service A for domains, service B for DNS and service C for emails.

Suggestions for service B? Every single service I can find always seems such a pain to go in and add a subdomain and change something.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

#123

It sound like they’re hosting at the same place (gandi) where they registered the domain. This is absolutely never recommended, for security purposes. If someone gains access to your hosting account you’ll likely lose all your domain names. Transfer the domains over to a better more secure registrar. Then set up a server or vps and set up as many mailboxes or emails that you need.

Is there not some way to undue that? I'm sure it would be a hassle, but hacking someone's account and transferring their domain name is a crime, it also leaves a very obvious paper trail. Seems like the registrars involved would be willing to reverse transfers under such circumstances.

And until that reversal is done, you've exposed all the users of your domains (including yourself) to security issues, potential data theft, and destroyed your own website's reputation.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

#124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use service A for domains, service B for DNS and service C for emails.

Suggestions for service B? Every single service I can find always seems such a pain to go in and add a subdomain and change something.

If you just care about user interface, Cloudflare is pretty stellar.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

#125

For those curious about what's going on (the post was removed) they merged with TWS: https://your.online/press-release/

We're getting bitten by this in the Netherlands as well. Two domain registrars, PCExtreme and Neostrada, merged with Versio, and Versio is now owned by TWS.

My company has domains registered with Versio (and PCExtreme and Neostrada), but the control panel was showing multiple domains wrongly flagged as 'processing', and actually getting through to customer service takes the better part of day by now. I'm not looking forward to our domains getting migrated due to these mergers.

Start looking for alternative registrars if your domains are hosted by Versio, Neostrada, or PCExtreme! The competent staff of PCExtreme and Neostrada seem to have evaporated in these mergers.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

#126

I honestly cannot believe the hubris. A 20% price hike and removal of features mid-term. If I don't pay for the email accounts I apparently didn't pay for, I will lose my business email accounts. I get the impression I should just have stuck with : _ @ gmail.com and moved on with my life. Maddening.

That comes with its own set of issues when google decides to block your account for reasons only known to their algorithms and there are no humans to talk to. You end up locked out of your business email with no recourse.

What is an SME supposed to do? I need static web-hosting and an email server that will not get blocked by Google!

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

#127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That comes with its own set of issues when google decides to block your account for reasons only known to their algorithms and there are no humans to talk to. You end up locked out of your business email with no recourse.

What is an SME supposed to do? I need static web-hosting and an email server that will not get blocked by Google!

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Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

#128

I honestly cannot believe the hubris. A 20% price hike and removal of features mid-term. If I don't pay for the email accounts I apparently didn't pay for, I will lose my business email accounts. I get the impression I should just have stuck with : _ @ gmail.com and moved on with my life. Maddening.

You still own the domain and are free to setup another hosting with the same address. With Gmail if you're banned it's over you lose access to everything and have to manually reach to all your contacts.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

#130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That comes with its own set of issues when google decides to block your account for reasons only known to their algorithms and there are no humans to talk to. You end up locked out of your business email with no recourse.

What is an SME supposed to do? I need static web-hosting and an email server that will not get blocked by Google!

Gmail, Fastmail... with custom domain
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