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Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by account42 »

Anthony-G wrote: post #190
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…

I can see how for some people, it might make sense to pay the higher prices if they also get value from their email services and/or DNS hosting. I run my own name server on my VPS so I chose Gandi because they provide free secondary name servers – but then discovered that their secondary name servers don’t support NOTIFY (or IXFR). Instead they make an AXFR transfer on a fixed schedule – that’s too slow for Let’s Enc…

Same situation here. I don't think I'll be eating these price increases. Never tried a domain transfer before. First time for everything I guess.

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Post by rurban »

shiftpgdn wrote: post #76
rurban wrote: post #24

Ok, this broke the camels back. Moved my domains to namecheap now.

Namecheap is significantly worse than Gandi and amongst the absolute bottom feeder domain providers. I'd recommend cancelling your transfer ASAP.

I'm already using freenom, namecheap, gandi and the big bad one which partnered with cPanel, godaddy.

Godaddy is the bottom feader, gandi was the best, but now with these prices I've switched.

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Post by CydeWeys »

r-spaghetti wrote: post #145
CydeWeys wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This seems like it would be a violation of the registry's/ICANN's contract. Do you have more info on this?

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Post by codethief »

_cenw wrote: post #187
codethief wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They once gave my data to law enforcement without notifying me, with no obligations not to notify me. "Your data", like what? The domains you own and their full whois entries? > with no obligations not to notify me While this might be true, they might have seen a risk in notifying you (at least while investigations were ongoing), consider e.g. https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/258.html Also, how did you come to know…

> "Your data", like what? The domains you own and their full whois entries? Single domain in, WHOIS data out. > While this might be true, they might have seen a risk in notifying you (at least while investigations were ongoing), consider e.g. https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/258.html I have a copy of the correspondence from Bundesamt fuer Justiz. > Also, how did you come to know about all this? Who notified you in the…

Thanks for elaborating!

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Post by hgsgm »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #174
hgsgm wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ye…

The "#1" wasn't the important part of that title.

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Post by hgsgm »

KomoD wrote: post #170
hgsgm wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Send a domain transfer request and see what happens.
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