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Is there a tangible advantage of using one registrar over the other?
In steady state, most registrars seem equivalent, and the main difference is how they handle billing.
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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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
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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
https://www.reddit.com/r/NameCheap/comments/7o0hid/transferr...
I'd switched registrars to Gandi as a form of protest when the US seized the domains of a UK travel agency that advertised tours of Cub. Because Gandi is based in France, it is not subject to US extraterritorial overreach. I stayed despite their higher prices because of good security like using FIDO U2F keys, so less likely to have an account hijacked, as I self-host my email and that is probably the single biggest p…
That's regular reach.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/information-tec...
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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…
Hi, Tutanota team here. In case you're looking for a new mailbox, Tutanota might be an option. We've also had a pricing update recently, but legacy users are allowed to keep what they have in full. Plus, we have a 50% offer running at the moment: https://tutanota.com/blog/announcement-new-prices
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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'm reading the messages of people saying that they had paid for their domains like 10 years in advance but they are going to have to start paying for their mailboxes, which is a breach of contract.
These people are just pieces of shit.
Fuck you, Gandi.net