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

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Post by dennis_jeeves1 »

Thoreandan wrote: post #257
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.

Thanks, between the 2 if you had to choose one, which would you recommend?

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Post by jacquesm »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #252
ploum wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, good old memories! (btw, it was Estelle Halliday, not Laetitia Halliday. But your uchrony is perfectly right)

True, it was Estelle. Thanks.

Maybe edit the original in case there is someone with that actual name?

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

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

branon wrote: post #214
behringer wrote: post #163

Earlier 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…

I'm not familiar with Gandi's email specifically, but with most of these email hosts, the lack of 2FA is a problem.

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

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Post by corford »

zvr wrote: post #256
corford wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Shame because they're good registrars. I wonder why the European requirement though (since the TLDs themselves are ultimately governed by the registries and you can always use your own - or third party, EU based - name servers).

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

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Post by onderweg »

deanmoriarty wrote: post #129

How do I find out if this change affects me? I have been a Gandi customer for 5+ years, and I have bought domains til 2026, and I rely on their free email. But I haven't received any communication about changes in pricing.

Same here

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Post by prmoustache »

throwaway81523 wrote: post #45

Gandi email has been useless from the start. They say right in the contract that they don't back up their email servers. Isn't the host handling chores like backup part of the point of a hosted product? Of course you can and should distrust the host's backups and have your own in addition, but that's way different than the host not doing them in the first place. Maybe they have fixed that (I don't see it on their sit…

Not sure that anyone need a backup if you know how to configure your email clients. Mines gets and keep all the emails so between my smartphone and my 2 laptops + their own backups, I have enough copies.

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Post by em-bee »

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.

how about: "Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes"

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

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Post by sundarurfriend »

Thoreandan wrote: post #255
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 )

An English article on this (from 1999): http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/ar/anonymity_snare.html

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

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Post by branon »

Tijdreiziger wrote: post #263
branon wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I'm not familiar with Gandi's email specifically, but with most of these email hosts, the lack of 2FA is a problem.

It exists but you have to use their web UI: https://docs.gandi.net/en/gandimail/common_operations/manage...
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