I think their motto was "no bullshit" or something
It looks like they don't like to be coy about scamming their users either
Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
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Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#242It sound like they’re hosting at the same place (gandi) where they registered the domain. This is absolutely never recommended, for security purposes. If someone gains access to your hosting account you’ll likely lose all your domain names. Transfer the domains over to a better more secure registrar. Then set up a server or vps and set up as many mailboxes or emails that you need.
Infrastructure best practices have gone out the window, haven't you heard? Most people who use AWS/$cloud_service use it for everything, best practices be damned. Many new projects start their working thinking about how to scale, before making it simple and before having paying users.
> thinking about how to scale
Having a good plan for scaling is absolutely a great move. Changing fundamental architecture later isn't easy. Implementing it all immediately however ..
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#243Tangential by related technical question:
Does something exist out there which is equivalent to a domain name for a website (or an any entity) which is independent of a external entities, like DNS or DNS like servers.
I know that in some sense public/private keys in asymmetric cryptography mimic that feature (the public key being the address of the receiver), but is there anything out of the box? Does Tor have a similar feature?
I do understand that this equivalent to which I'm alluding to, may be an unintelligible string of characters, unlike current website user friendly names. I also understand that the underlying ip address change can be a challenge , but probably not an insurmountable one.
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#244Thus is all the fault of Laetitia Halliday, ultimately.
If she did not sue Valentin Lacambre, he would not have abandoned altern.org.
If he kept altern.org, gandi would have been an association, not a corporation.
And the world would be a slightly better place.
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#245Thus is all the fault of Laetitia Halliday, ultimately. If she did not sue Valentin Lacambre, he would not have abandoned altern.org. If he kept altern.org, gandi would have been an association, not a corporation. And the world would be a slightly better place.
Wow, good old memories!
(btw, it was Estelle Halliday, not Laetitia Halliday. But your uchrony is perfectly right)
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#246Dont know if its related to the recent changes but I opened a support request that has been open for 3 days now with the only reply being we've transfered you to a different part of the support team. it is related to moving registrar which i can see not being the highest priority but still quite frustrating. netim replied within 30 minutes of me opening a ticket related to the same issue for context.
this kind of change could definitely upset customer service queues. I don't know if 3+ days is normal for Gandi or not though.
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#247I honestly cannot believe the hubris. A 20% price hike and removal of features mid-term. If I don't pay for the email accounts I apparently didn't pay for, I will lose my business email accounts. I get the impression I should just have stuck with : _ @ gmail.com and moved on with my life. Maddening.
what's amazing to me is that the only reason you would pay up to double what other registrars charge is because of the free services they throw in.
I have a feeling Gandi is going to go down the tubes very fast.
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#248What registrars has HN been using lately? I've been super lazy and use Route53 for everything right now.
I generally open up https://tld-list.com/ (which lists most registrars for any given TLD, along with the prices). I then choose the cheapest non-shady looking one. Porkbun, NameSilo, and Epik are fine options usually.
https://tldes.com/ is an alternative site for those look for pricing comparison for the different TLDs/gTLDs.
Personally I'm currently using Sav and Porkbun, with good experiences with Namesilo in the recent past.
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty sure gandi doesn't do much of the above either. Gandi email hosting is generally not worth paying for.
I've been using Gandi's free mailboxes since 2019 when I de-Googled, they provide easy setup for SPF/DKIM/DMARC. Not sure about the other two. No significant deliverability issues to report. They offer IMAP and a choice between two web UIs which is all I need. I'd be more than happy to pay for their service in general, just not under duress. If they'd have given me 6 months to onboard I'd have been perfectly fine wit…
ah ok, it must have changed since last I looked into it.
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#250It sound like they’re hosting at the same place (gandi) where they registered the domain. This is absolutely never recommended, for security purposes. If someone gains access to your hosting account you’ll likely lose all your domain names. Transfer the domains over to a better more secure registrar. Then set up a server or vps and set up as many mailboxes or emails that you need.
Is there not some way to undue that? I'm sure it would be a hassle, but hacking someone's account and transferring their domain name is a crime, it also leaves a very obvious paper trail. Seems like the registrars involved would be willing to reverse transfers under such circumstances.
I've been running a stolen domain name recovery service for a few years now. Even though hacking into someone's account and transferring the domain name to themselves or transferring it to another domain registrar is a crime, it's never prosecuted (when they come to us the first thing we have them do is file a police report).
The problem is that most domain registrars won't help get your domain name back. Many domains are stolen because they hacked the email address and not the domain registrar account (even though that's how they got access). Most domain registrars don't care at all, and won't help. And there are no current ICANN policies for dealing with stolen domain names. Even UDRP is not set up for dealing with stolen domains. Although we were successful getting one back via UDRP since the business was using the domain previously and we ended up claiming 'commonlaw trademark'.
This is one reason why we've been so successful getting stolen domain names back for clients: we use some alternative methods, such as actually talking to people at the registrars involved and talking with the domain thief, to get domains back.