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Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by kryptoncalm »

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.

Exactly this. I didn’t know they were acquired, it seems they’re acting quickly. Any recommendations on how to migrate e-mail address + IMAP boxes?

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Post by kaivi »

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.

My only experience with Gandi was awful. Bought a bunch of domains from them after they were praised here on HN, was assured that WHOIS privacy is enabled by default and without any extra fees.

Looked up the WHOIS records a minute later, and my phone number, name and email were all there. Those were .com, .org and .net domains.

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Post by azepoi »

mehdix wrote: post #131
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.

Free is a marketing gimmick. It was never free but included in the domain package = domain registration + dns hosting + email boxes. The domain prices were generally higher than some concurrents. Now all of a sudden the domains see a price hike of 20-40% and each basic mail box that was included costs 57€ VAT included. So if you use the mail box this is essentially x3 or worse on the price. God forbid you used two mailboxes.

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#145

Post by r-spaghetti »

CydeWeys wrote: post #95
huhtenberg wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Glad I renewed for nine years last year. Given the speed with which Gandi is circling down the drain I won't be surprised if they annul that renewal at some point later on.

They can't. The registration expiration date is managed at the registry (and they've already paid the registry for all of those years).

Better check this at the registry. I've noticed that this group of companies has a new policy regarding domain renewal: let the client pay at date X and update the registry just within hours before the domain expires. Paying 9 nine years in advance might just result in the obligation of this company to renew the domain 9 times for you, unless you move out of course.... Dark patterns is becoming the standard.

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Post by dcow »

mrweasel wrote: post #140
ryanjshaw wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Damn. Why did you move to Gandi of all places???

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#147

Post by no-reply »

kaivi wrote: post #143
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.

My only experience with Gandi was awful. Bought a bunch of domains from them after they were praised here on HN, was assured that WHOIS privacy is enabled by default and without any extra fees. Looked up the WHOIS records a minute later, and my phone number, name and email were all there. Those were .com, .org and .net domains.

I think on porkbun they explicitly tell you that some domains like .com do not have the option of enabling WHOIS privacy. So more likely this has something to do with the registrar and not gandi themselves.

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#148

Post by r-spaghetti »

mdrzn wrote: post #18
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…

.com are $9.73 / year on PorkBun, and they renews at $9.73 Not affiliated, just a happy customer.

I'm fan of Porkbun.com too. Low prices and more important, smooth working services.

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Post by vel0city »

bombcar wrote: post #68
ryanjshaw wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

When I was preparing to flee free google apps for domains during the recent kerfuffle, the cheapest overall really was Exchange Online (it's a basic email-only option). For a single user and single domain, it's just $56 a year. Next best was proton mail (seems it's a bit cheaper now, $48/yr)

Zoho Mail seems like a pretty cheap deal. $1.25/user/month 1yr commitment for their 10GB/user email + calendar + contacts support according to the website. It says it can do Exchange ActiveSync and IMAP for connecting. This is currently my target for migrating my few email accounts.

I'd love to hear arguments for another service that's cheaper than that for just a few accounts. I don't really want/need all the extra document collaboration tools other services provide and I definitely don't want yet another Google/Microsoft account.

https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

#150

Post by kaivi »

no-reply wrote: post #147
kaivi wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My only experience with Gandi was awful. Bought a bunch of domains from them after they were praised here on HN, was assured that WHOIS privacy is enabled by default and without any extra fees. Looked up the WHOIS records a minute later, and my phone number, name and email were all there. Those were .com, .org and .net domains.

I think on porkbun they explicitly tell you that some domains like .com do not have the option of enabling WHOIS privacy. So more likely this has something to do with the registrar and not gandi themselves.

Huh, name.com has been hiding my PII just fine for years, for maybe a dozen most popular TLDs...
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