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Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by I_complete_me »

alexghr wrote: post #33
gettodachoppa wrote: post #28

I have a single domain with 2 emails on it. What's the cheapest migration option for mail? I want to use a company with human tech support in case something goes wrong one day. No tech giants.

I've been using PurelyMail[1] (it's been on hacker news a couple of times already) for about a year now and haven't had any issues with it. It uses consumption-based pricing so for my use (with two domains set up) it comes out to about $0.5/month. I think it's a small team (maybe just one person?) that maintains it. [1]: https://purelymail.com/

It looks like there is a bus factor of 1. Is this not a concern for you?

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by Raicuparta »

kaivi wrote: post #150
no-reply wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I have my domains on Porkbun and all info is hidden, including in .com domains. So maybe they saw that with some other tld

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by bsagdiyev »

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 moved to Porkbun after some HN post a few months back, just a single .me domain but it was quick and easy. Happy so far.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by LukeShu »

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.

> “No bullshit” is no more. https://www.gandi.net/en/no-bullshit

They mostly phased-out the "no bullshit" slogan from all of their branding with the v5 migration in 2018. It went from being in the homepage's and the first thing you see on the homepage[1] and in the header at the top of every page to being just a tiny link under "About Us" in the homepage's footer[2].

I get phasing it out, to be more "business friendly" or whatever; but doing it at the same time as the big v5 UI and accounts overhaul... it seemed to me to be an admission that the fancy new Javascript UI was bullshit.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104001527/https://www.gandi...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20181230012842/https://www.gandi...

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by demetrius »

jodrellblank wrote: post #50
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.

Yes forewarning, they were bought out and closed free email and said email would cost $ripoff/month at least three months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35080777

Not really, I've never got the previous email, only today's one.

Maybe some people got the information 3 months ago, but definitely not all of customers.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by KomoD »

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…

$17.75 and $23.99 are both insane, I pay $9.15/yr

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by KomoD »

breput wrote: post #138
nubinetwork wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$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.

That is still not worth $17.75/yr

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by KomoD »

dna_polymerase wrote: post #12
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 keep recommending iwantmyname, which is not Europe-based (NZ actually), but founded by some guys from Austria. I've been a customer for ten years now, and I haven't seen a nasty ReactJS redesign, or any other BS. Just a good registrar.

What makes it worth the price? $19.99/yr for a .com is very expensive.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by KomoD »

mongrelion wrote: post #160

Agrgrgr I'm angry. Gandi got recently bought and people were saying that it was just a matter of time before they would pull something like this. Your predictions were right and I hate that I'm in this position now. 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…

> Gandi got recently bought

Was bought in 2019 too, by a private equity firm

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by KomoD »

hgsgm wrote: post #155
mynameisvlad wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

And yet for the last 5 years (recently confirmed it still happens) they have been calling themself "#1 Host Russia":-o https://www.reddit.com/r/NameCheap/comments/7o0hid/transferr...

Found zero information about that other than that post.
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