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Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by mehdix »

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.

I received the announcement email today. I understand and appreciate them offering the email service for free for many years. It's a lot of work and I was always wondering how they manage to offer email hosting for free.

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Post by commoner »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I migrated away from Namecheap because it prevented me from logging in when I used a VPN (that was not Namecheap's own VPN). The company rep's response on HN was less than satisfactory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27705863

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by akvadrako »

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 use eurodns.com since it supports a wide range or TLDs.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by theshrike79 »

hfkwer wrote: post #69
theshrike79 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm boring and I just moved my crap from Gandi to Route 53 ages ago. It's not the cheapest, but the pricing is stable and predictable, the tools are good and I can automate swapping subdomains if an IP changes trivially.

Are you aware that Route 53 uses Gandi under the hood...?! https://aws.amazon.com/route53/domain-registration-agreement...

...I am now. Crap.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by petecooper »

I moved all but one of my domains from Gandi to Porkbun, it's been a joy since. I'm in the UK, and the US pricing is favourable even with the credit card currency fee.

The only domain I have left at Gandi is a .ag (since Porkbun don't do .ag) and an orphaned .eu (because Brexit took that from me). There's nothing I can do with the .eu, so that's gonna languish until 2027.

The .ag domain is going up from 79EUR to 95EUR soon. Time to find a new registrar for that straggler. Even though I can renew at 79EUR now I'm inclined to take the renewal somewhere else.

Edit: could be a coincidence, could be a ccTLD thing, but the auth code that used to be viewable on the Transfer tab at Gandi is no longer there. Strange.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by breput »

nubinetwork wrote: post #8
breput wrote: post #2

The text in the link was sent to Gandi users via email today, although they purposefully buried the significant domain registration price increases with the GandiMail bs text. The actual price increases are listed here[0]. For example, currently a .com domain can be renewed for $17.75/year (tax inclusive - I personally renewed a .com domain for the maximum of 4 years tonight). After the increase this will be $23.99/y…

$18 for a .com is pricy enough as it is... you can get them for much cheaper.

There are value adds included in the price, such as DNS hosting and maybe email stuff, although some of that is going away along with the price increase.

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Post by dpcx »

mminer237 wrote: post #107
dpcx wrote: post #105

It'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

Interesting; it used to be, but apparently that's changed. I've searched multiple times recently to no avail.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by mrweasel »

ryanjshaw wrote: post #39
whizzter wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Where did you find pricing? I found the notification about the changes to email a little suspect, it's basically just thrown in as a comment in the middle of the email I got. No info on the product seems to be available, no pricing, no nothing, just it will be available in a month.

I'd really hate to move domains and email again, I just moved everything a year ago.

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