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Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by apple4ever »

KomoD wrote: post #166
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

Holy moly yes those prices are wild. I pay something similar for dot com.

I just looked and dot io is $70 a year! I pay around $40.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by kup0 »

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.

Agreed, Porkbun is so reasonable I've purchased extra domains I don't even really need

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by mrweasel »

dcow wrote: post #146
mrweasel wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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???

Because I moved just before things started to go down hill. They were the cheapest, people seemed reasonably happy with their services and they had the features I wanted.

My problem was that not only did Google changed my price from free to way to expensive, but my DNS provider closed at the same time, so I needed to migrate both things at the same time. Pretty annoying.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by mynameisvlad »

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...

Those two things are not mutually exclusive. They can be the #1 host while also enforcing restrictions (which have exceptions as per https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...)

A 5 year old link with a vague "confirmation" that it's still happening is not exactly damning evidence, either. They could have certainly considered themselves the #1 host until last year. A lot of things changed last year.

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Post by KomoD »

codetrotter wrote: post #117
thesnide wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any "commitment to providing best tools" is always about increasing the price, so nothing new. The fact that it doubled is bad, but I guess everyone will vote with their wallet and market will regulate itself.

The sad thing is that I've been very happy with Gandi for a long time. If I were to leave them, I don't even know who I would turn to instead. GoDaddy? Hell naw. Google Domains? No thanks. Cloudflare Registrar? Rather not put all my eggs in one basket. Plus, I don't necessarily trust Cloudflare to be registrar for my domains altough I am happy to use their DNS service and their Cloudflare Pages service.

I do Porkbun + Cloudflare + InternetBS, all of them just work in my experience. I used to use Namecheap but their prices are becoming too much for me.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by KomoD »

sandstrom wrote: post #38

They got bought out by a PE firm that's gobbling up registrars, DNS providers and similar. Mostly a moneygrab, so expect prices to increase and product/tech to deteriorate. I love capitalism in general, but PE firms are mostly a net-negative. They try to squeeze profit out of a company while owning it for 3-5 years, and then selling it at a higher multiple. They usually do this by cutting R&D, jacking up prices and c…

> They got bought out by a PE firm that's gobbling up registrars, DNS providers and similar. Mostly a moneygrab, so expect prices to increase and product/tech to deteriorate.

They were bought again.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by mongrelion »

KomoD wrote: post #169
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

You are right. My timeline is off. That doesn't make me any less angry, though.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by pzduniak »

demurgos wrote: post #13
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've been using OVH for over 10 years and I'm pretty happy with them.

Be wary of their support. Their services are hit or miss (and the misses are REALLY bad) and I experience complete incompetence on their side in both CA and PL.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by vorvac »

mrtksn wrote: post #15

Is there a tangible advantage of using one registrar over the other?

I've been through registrar hell. I registered a ccTLD and wanted to transfer since the price was way lower elsewhere. Their CMS was complete garbage and the auto-generated transfer token/code was evidently bogus, as every registrar I attempted to transfer to said it wasn't right. Of course, the support from the registrar I was attempting to leave was nonexistent, always blaming the other guys. Yeah right, screw you TLD Registrar Solutions - avoid any of their brands at all costs. There's almost nothing you can do. My solution was to wait for domain expiry and re-register. Would recommend bigger names.
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