I'd be a lot happier as a long-time GANDI customer if there was any mention of this whatsoever on https://news.gandi.net ... nothing there since 2022. :-(
Also, no email in my inbox about the merger.
Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
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Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#282I 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.
For a small business expense and the annoyance of having to extend effort to change something that just works, it was a pretty sensible decision. Now I've got to go down the rabbit hole of playing the free market game for what should just be a damn simple thing. Why is web hosting & email so difficult in 2023!?!
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#283How 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.
I have not yet either. Customer for 10+ years. If they go through with this, I will have to consider small claims court in Taiwan or Japan.
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#284I have quite a few domains with Gandi, using their email service on a few because I'm lazy and it's free. Not sure when (or if) I'll receive notice of this change. Maybe it's regional? Seems most of the comments show £ as currency. This is going to burn all of their goodwill they accumulated with the "no bullshit" slogan. I will be swiftly moving all my domains, likely to Porkbun.
It is not free, it is included with the purchase. I think that is quite a difference.
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#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use service A for domains, service B for DNS and service C for emails.
I reached that by accident. Service B for DNS was just a more pleasant product to use than service A, and service A didn't offer certain features I needed for emails. To bring it back on topic, this made it easy when I switched service A from Gandi to something else a year or two ago because a few things I was seeing from them "smelled funny." I don't remember the details, just that I wanted to switch.
DNSControl[1] or another similar tool also helps a lot when moving. My DNS records are configured by a small JavaScript file in a git repository, and I can very easily point it at another DNS provider.
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#286I think their motto was "no bullshit" or something It looks like they don't like to be coy about scamming their users either
To be fair, they have done a good job with that motto for a long time. I've been with them for 10 years and have recommended and praised them for being "no bullshit" on a few occasions, both here on HN and on reddit.
It sucks how quickly these things can change.
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#287> I've purchased domains from Gandi, pre-paying for multiple years of service such that some domains I have don't need renewing until 2027. Just in case you did not know: if you transfer to a different registrar, you will not lose the extra years of registration. You can confirm the expected expiration date of 2027 at lookup.icann.org.
Cloudflare domains are sold at cost, and CF is a very rock solid platform (for DNS/registrars at least)
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#288> I've purchased domains from Gandi, pre-paying for multiple years of service such that some domains I have don't need renewing until 2027. Just in case you did not know: if you transfer to a different registrar, you will not lose the extra years of registration. You can confirm the expected expiration date of 2027 at lookup.icann.org.
> if you transfer to a different registrar, you will not lose the extra years of registration I did not know that. But how do you do it? And where to find a list of reputable registrars (which seems the rarest of species)?
I moved from Gandi to Google Domains, then later to Cloudflare Domains.
CF has the most serious product out of any of them, and they sell domains at-cost as a loss-leader to get you in.
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#289What registrars has HN been using lately? I've been super lazy and use Route53 for everything right now.
I use hover, they are a tucows reseller, sort of.
Oh hell no. Hover used to be good, but have turned into a shit show over the last 12+ months.
Definitely avoid them, and if your domains are important then migrate them elsewhere.
Several reports of problems, including from me:
* https://twitter.com/densone/status/1625378937047027719
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#290Sad to see Gandi worsening. It was a fantastic registrar that I recommended to everyone. Now I’m in the process to move everything to cloudflare and porkbun
Just recently I moved a .pn domain (required gandi corporate subscription) to Gandi and they’ll charge me almost double of the at-cost for renewal as the base fee, excluding the corporate subscription. Inquired about this and asked for a refund because I wasn’t satisfied with the service, but that sadly wasn’t granted to me either
What happened to Gandi - No bullsh*t?