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Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by em-bee »

codetrotter wrote: post #117
thesnide wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any "commitment to providing best tools" is always about increasing the price, so nothing new. The fact that it doubled is bad, but I guess everyone will vote with their wallet and market will regulate itself.

The sad thing is that I've been very happy with Gandi for a long time. If I were to leave them, I don't even know who I would turn to instead. GoDaddy? Hell naw. Google Domains? No thanks. Cloudflare Registrar? Rather not put all my eggs in one basket. Plus, I don't necessarily trust Cloudflare to be registrar for my domains altough I am happy to use their DNS service and their Cloudflare Pages service.

same here, i feel i am at a loss for options. gandi was always very community friendly, and the ability to allow anyone to pay to renew a domain is a very useful feature especially for communities. we even had gandi people show up at our linux user group meetings when they were in town for other business, and they didn't come to sell stuff, but to hang out and have a good time.

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Post by efournie »

branon wrote: post #115
f137 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you happen to know what are Grilles / Grids in the price list?

I also have no clue what these mean, kinda driving me crazy, let me know if you find out

They offer different rates based on the previous purchases volume: https://docs.gandi.net/en/billing/price_rates/index.html

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Post by onlypositive »

branon wrote: post #113
failbuffer wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You were already paying $2/mo for one of the "legacy" GandiMail premium 50 GB mailboxes? Yeah I can see how this looks much worse from that perspective. Your price is going to triple if you switch to the new premium mailbox. Since I've only been paying for domain registration while using email for free, I feel that I can't complain as much, at least not in good faith. Still, both the freebies and the paying customers…

I complained. Their prices are already way over what I can get on namecheap.

The free email is the only thing that kept me with them.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by onlypositive »

whizzter wrote: post #17
aendruk wrote: post #3

No 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.

Namecheap email is like 1.50 a month. This is way more expensive. Pretty sure they're just trying to kill it.

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Post by conradfr »

As a French it's sad to see one of the staple of the early French web tech go but it was expected when they got bought.

I must say the "free" emails were nice to send low-volume emails from my side-projects.

I will probably move my domains to Infomaniak, they have a good reputation.

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Post by mynameisvlad »

hgsgm wrote: post #88
shiftpgdn wrote: post #76

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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?

There is nothing wrong with Namecheap as a registrar.

Some people have strong stances because they chose not to continue supporting Russian sites last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by unshavedyak »

yett wrote: post #116
unshavedyak wrote: post #86

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My last two purchases have been on PorkBun to avoid Gandi. However they don't offer `.la` domains, which i have one of. Still need to find somewhere to move my .la

Looks like they do offer now I just checked and you can register a .la domain.

Wow! I swear recently they did not, super thankful to your comment. Going to transfer mine later tonight. Thanks!

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by pinebox »

azepoi wrote: post #4

What'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'm moving to netim.com which is another French registrar. They run their own email and seem to have a good reputation.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by sylware »

Gandi registrar client here: never heard of this. never got any email about this.

Using gandi because it handles my-country-specific payment systems (aka no credit card to provide online, and no need of a big tech web engine, like steam wallet codes).

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