Now I need to move all my domains away from Gandi. And I'm paid for years in advance. Any recommendations?
Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
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#142I migrated my domains and deleted my account as soon as I got wind of the sale. It was a PITA but apparently well worth it.
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#143I have quite a few domains with Gandi, using their email service on a few because I'm lazy and it's free. Not sure when (or if) I'll receive notice of this change. Maybe it's regional? Seems most of the comments show £ as currency.
This is going to burn all of their goodwill they accumulated with the "no bullshit" slogan. I will be swiftly moving all my domains, likely to Porkbun.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because Montefoire sold them to a scummy company: https://your.online/press-release/
Good find. I've never heard of "Total Webhosting Solutions," anybody had experience with them? It's a bummer if Gandi goes downhill. I've never used them personally but I heard a lot of recommendations that they were a good registrar.
see this discussion https://lobste.rs/s/flcpop/what_domain_registrar_is_worth_us...
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#145Gandi email has been useless from the start. They say right in the contract that they don't back up their email servers. Isn't the host handling chores like backup part of the point of a hosted product? Of course you can and should distrust the host's backups and have your own in addition, but that's way different than the host not doing them in the first place. Maybe they have fixed that (I don't see it on their sit…
For email it is sometimes useful to only have a host handling things like reputation and crypto/protocols (DKIM, SPF, DMARC, DANE, MTA-STS, etc.) while doing the actual handling of data yourself.
I'm not sure that gandi's email fits that purpose, but specifically for email it can be a bit more tricky to roll your own than things like HTTPS, so having a hosted solution to handle that can help.
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#146For 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…
Is it printed so much money that they just buy up everything and jack up the prices?
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#147How do I find out if this change affects me? I have been a Gandi customer for 5+ years, and I have bought domains til 2026, and I rely on their free email. But I haven't received any communication about changes in pricing.
The service being taken away is the free email for the duration of your registration. If you don't use it, you're likely unaffected.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cloudflare Registrar, no markup and a reliable company.
The catch is that you must use Cloudflare's nameservers [0]: 6.1 Nameservers. Registrant agrees to use Cloudflare’s nameservers. REGISTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IT MAY NOT CHANGE THE NAMESERVERS ON THE REGISTRAR SERVICES, AND THAT IT MUST TRANSFER TO A THIRD PARTY REGISTRAR IF IT WISHES TO CHANGE NAMESERVERS. [0] https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/
This usually isn't a problem, you can point the DNS to any hosting service you want. Its a pain to setup every single record of-course.
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#149How do I find out if this change affects me? I have been a Gandi customer for 5+ years, and I have bought domains til 2026, and I rely on their free email. But I haven't received any communication about changes in pricing.
The service being taken away is the free email for the duration of your registration. If you don't use it, you're likely unaffected.
Maybe I wasn't clear when I said "and I rely on their free email". I do use the free email with every domain I buy with them, but haven't received any communication asking me to pay for them.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not that I know of, it’s just good practice to separate services like this (even if it can be more expensive and logistically difficult).
I'm asking because the GGP wrote "better more secure registrar". Since I'm using Gandi right now (and I don't care about their mailbox offer), I wanted to know if it was really insecure.
GGP said hosting, but I think they mean email hosting. Even if you keep your actual registrar account @gmail or anther third-party, it's not recommended to handle your registrar, DNS, and email in the same place, since a compromise of any of them is likely to lead to compromise of the other systems (eg. an attacker gains admin permissions on the website / backend and uses it to reset your email password and download your email inbox)