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Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by elaus »

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.

That also rubbed me the wrong way. So much marketing text and then a single paragraph about service terminations and price changes.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by rendaw »

roomey wrote: post #7

Any reccomended alternatives? I've used them because they seemed the most reputable in the murky world of domain name providers.

Quoting myself from the previous thread... my requirements are no 1. glaring technical issues, 2. u2f support.

> Based on advice here I just tried Porkbun. A not-quite-professional website that prefers making jokes to fixing layout bugs, I try to sign up and the symbols in my password cause it to fail with a 403 (!!). I'm super scared about their technical abilities and general security. Are we going to see another Gandi 6 mo down the line?

> Domains are the keys to the internet atm, it would be nice to see someone take it seriously.

>

> Edit: I guess I'll try realtimeregister, since I haven't seen anything negative and they support U2F per Yubikey's catalog.

>

> Edit2: Cool, cool, when you sign up they assign you a non-random password which anyone can use to log in and view your personal information.

>

> Edit3: Others with u2f support that aren't MAMAA: Cloudflare (close), OVH, DNSimple (accounts are $60/year)

Cloudflare doesn't allow you to point the nameservers elsewhere which made migration painful. I went with DNSimple.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by SCdF »

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…

They got me, I thought the price hikes were specifically for things I didn't care about, because of all of the gandimail stuff. Without HN I wouldn't have even noticed.

Looking at my last invoice, I paid ~£26/year for a .info domain. If I'm reading this right, it's now ~£36/yr.

That's a ~40% increase.

Glad I renewed for nine years last year.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by acatton »

midasuni wrote: post #5

If I remember rightly aws/route53 use Gandi, presumably will affect them too

Yes. In some instances.

https://aws.amazon.com/route53/domain-registration-agreement...

> AWS provides the Domain Name Registration Services through ICANN-accredited registrars. AWS currently provides Domain Name Registration Services through Gandi SAS , Mesh Digital Limited, Amazon Registrar, Inc., and other ICANN-accredited registrars (the “Registrar”), and your use of the Domain Name Registration Services is subject to their terms.

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Post by theshrike79 »

roomey wrote: post #7

Any reccomended alternatives? I've used them because they seemed the most reputable in the murky world of domain name providers.

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.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by OoooooooO »

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 use www.inwx.de for years. Nothing to complain.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by tga »

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.

They have really high prices for some TLDs for some reason.

A .re domain is €14.28 with Gandi and €43.99 with iwantmyname.

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