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Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

VoxPelli wrote: post #131
Freak_NL wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're getting bitten by this in the Netherlands as well. Two domain registrars, PCExtreme and Neostrada, merged with Versio, and Versio is now owned by TWS. My company has domains registered with Versio (and PCExtreme and Neostrada), but the control panel was showing multiple domains wrongly flagged as 'processing', and actually getting through to customer service takes the better part of day by now. I'm not looking…

Any suggestion of a good serious independent European registrar?

I used to be on Versio, but moved to TransIP after the acquisition of Versio by TWS.

TransIP is not exactly the cheapest, but they work fine. Vimexx (which is under the same company as TransIP) is cheaper (closer to pre-TWS Versio pricing), but I'm a bit hesitant to trust a 'budget' registrar again.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by sam_lowry_ »

ploum wrote: post #245
sam_lowry_ wrote: post #244

Thus 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)

True, it was Estelle. Thanks.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by scrps »

dang wrote: post #208

The submitted title was "Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, screws existing customers". The latter bit is linkbait so I've edited it (as the site guidelines request - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ). But I realize the OP isn't just complaining about price increases, so if someone can suggest a more accurate and neutral title, we can change it again.

Gandi buyout brings unwelcome changes (Could also add "for some" to limit the scope if that is too broad.)

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by tolien »

motrm wrote: post #203

As some comments have mentioned the pricing will increase for domain names too, not very explicit in their email on Tuesday evening "Gandi.net - Update": Domains We remain committed to offering you the largest portfolio of TLDs, customized TLD suggestions and best-in-class anycast-level primary DNS servers. In addition, we will step-up our effort to unburden you by introducing new managed features: Advanced and easy…

> Porkbun [...] .uk about £5.50

Porkbun do .uk domains now? TIL!

I moved some domains from Gandi to Porkbun before as part of a plan to ditch Gandi and when I asked (almost 3 years ago to the day), they didn't support .uk.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by Thoreandan »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #244

Thus 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.

TIL.

(for those also out of the loop: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altern )

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by zvr »

corford wrote: post #227
VoxPelli wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any suggestion of a good serious independent European registrar?

Not sure if it meets the European criteria but I use a combination of DNSimple and Porkbun and am very happy with them both. For less common ccTLDs, Gandi is still hard to beat since they support virtually everything. Apart from that, I have no regrets moving... I saw the writing on the wall about 2 years ago and moved virtually all my domains away from them.

> Not sure if it meets the European criteria but I use a combination of DNSimple and Porkbun

Neither of these meets the European criterion.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by Thoreandan »

dennis_jeeves1 wrote: post #243

Tangential 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 simi…

There's things like

purl-dot-org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_uniform_resource_lo...

or

.onion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion

e.g. http://p53lf57qovyuvwsc6xnrppyply3vtqm7l6pcobkmyqsiofyeznfu5... will be up even if the propublica.org domain is broken / disabled.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by dennis_jeeves1 »

dennis_jeeves1 wrote: post #243

Tangential 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 simi…

Think I found atleast one answer from: https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/how-to-create-a-onion-addres...:

When you type a .onion address into your Tor browser, unlike with a regular domain, you are not looking up an IP address on a DNS server. Instead, you are asking a Hidden Service directory, which anybody can volunteer to run.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by callahad »

motrm wrote: post #203

As some comments have mentioned the pricing will increase for domain names too, not very explicit in their email on Tuesday evening "Gandi.net - Update": Domains We remain committed to offering you the largest portfolio of TLDs, customized TLD suggestions and best-in-class anycast-level primary DNS servers. In addition, we will step-up our effort to unburden you by introducing new managed features: Advanced and easy…

> I'd like my registrar to make a reasonable amount of profit to make staying in business worthwhile

Ditto. Moved 11 domains from Gandi to Porkbun today. But... for the lot of them, Porkbun was only $9 more than Cloudflare, which charges straight wholesale prices and takes no profit.

I'm glad Porkbun isn't gouging, but less than $1/domain/year markup still feels a bit thin and leaves me worried that I'll be doing this dance again in a few years.

Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

judge2020 wrote: post #150
justeleblanc wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm asking because the GGP wrote "better more secure registrar". Since I'm using Gandi right now (and I don't care about their mailbox offer), I wanted to know if it was really insecure.

GGP said hosting, but I think they mean email hosting. Even if you keep your actual registrar account @gmail or anther third-party, it's not recommended to handle your registrar, DNS, and email in the same place, since a compromise of any of them is likely to lead to compromise of the other systems (eg. an attacker gains admin permissions on the website / backend and uses it to reset your email password and download…

Aren't these orthogonal concerns?

registrar or DNS gets hacked -> attacker can receive mail as you (by transferring your domain or changing your MX record)

e-mail host gets hacked -> attacker can download your inbox

both -> both

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