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Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by doodlesdev »

duiker101 wrote: post #122
KingOfCoders wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use service A for domains, service B for DNS and service C for emails.

Suggestions for service B? Every single service I can find always seems such a pain to go in and add a subdomain and change something.

Honestly I think it depends where you are deploying to. I was previously using Netlify DNS for instance since most of my domains had static websites hosted on Netlify, this meant that they could manage quite a lot of records for me, I was also a fan of having CNAME-flattening which isn't available at domains.google (for reference I'm using the .dev TLD which is owned by the Google Registrar), but I've recently switched to using Google's name servers and even though I have to use a hard coded IP for the Netlify load balancer and I lost CNAME flattening I'm pretty the DNS requests are going MUCH faster (as in a few tens of milliseconds faster LOL). The reason I'm using Google's name server is because Netlify DNS doesn't support DNSSEC which for me is simply absurd in 2023.

Anyways, if you don't have a specific reason to pick any specific nameserver go with the easiest one or if you want to have the most features and portability go with Cloudflare.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by angst_ridden »

deanmoriarty wrote: post #129

How 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.

Same here. Maybe it's happening by region?

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by behringer »

SahAssar wrote: post #145
throwaway81523 wrote: post #45

Gandi 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.

Pretty sure gandi doesn't do much of the above either. Gandi email hosting is generally not worth paying for.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by Macha »

ryandrake wrote: post #156
r3trohack3r wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why I live in a society that enforces contracts through a court system. In a functioning society you can’t sell someone a year worth of prepaid car washes and then decide they need to start paying you again 3 months into your contract. Will be interesting to see if this touches the courts and, if so, how it plays out.

Contracts are only as good as the wealth, power, and ability you have to fight in court and ensure they get enforced. Which is why they 1. usually have lopsided boilerplate terms that protect only the powerful party, 2. are usually largely written by the wealthy, powerful corporation, and 3. usually only enforced against the relatively powerless consumer. In the ideal fantasy world, contracts are supposed to be "meet…

Depending on how many domains he's registered and how much the value of that service for the remaining years is, this may be eligible for small claims.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by Macha »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #66
WirelessGigabit wrote: post #46

This is why I only use service A for domains. And service B for emails.

I use service A for domains, service B for DNS and service C for emails.

I have this, but it's not quite as fully seperated out, as server B is also my server host.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by jodrellblank »

pomian wrote: post #134

Has anyone felt that GoDaddy is doing the same thing? They just switched to Microsoft for domain hosting and email, and it's a mess, and it seems as if all of the free mailboxes are gone including, free forwarding.

Yes, they dumped their basic free email for a 30 day trial of Office365 and an offer to pay monthly for Office365 through them. That's why I moved from GoDaddy to Gandi, so that's annoying.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by Pxtl »

bob1029 wrote: post #17

What registrars has HN been using lately? I've been super lazy and use Route53 for everything right now.

I've only got just one, but I'm pretty happy with Google. I mean, I know it's Google so there's always the worry they'll get bored with the product, but it works fine and has integration with my Asus router so I can dynDNS my home for my kids' minecraft server.
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