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Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes

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

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Post by judge2020 »

bob1029 wrote: post #17

What registrars has HN been using lately? I've been super lazy and use Route53 for everything right now.

> What registrars has HN been using lately?

ycombinator.com itself is on 81 "Gandi SAS", although they use AWS DNS, so chances are it's through Route53 (since AWS isn't an ICANN registrar, they have other registrars actually handle the registry ops)

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

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Post by zhte415 »

This seems short sighted. For just one mailbox per domain, 2.99 per month is 35.88 per year. This will wipe goodwill from an existing loyal customer base very quickly#.

I have 4 domains, each with 2 email addresses. I do not want a 287.04 per year bill, and nor do I want my domains being held hostage for this. I will look to migrate away immediately.

But, I have emailed Gandi to ask them to confirm, since the website doesn't yet reflect this news, and it's not the first time they may be victim of disinformation (action perhaps indicitative of trust built using Gandi).

#small, non wholesale customers.

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

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Post by Traubenfuchs »

galenko wrote: post #26
swayvil wrote: post #15

So who's the trustworthy, low-bullshit registrar now? I've been using Gandi for over a decade.

I am not sure if cloudflare is liked by HN this week, but so far, I’ve not had a bad experience with their registrar. Fast and cheap.

Their lack of support, or rather their "support fails" and their VP and C-suite level hacker news readers consistently offering personal assistance to high profile incidents on HN kind of made them a negative running gag here.

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

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Post by koolba »

_fat_santa wrote: post #19
swayvil wrote: post #15

So who's the trustworthy, low-bullshit registrar now? I've been using Gandi for over a decade.

I personally use Namecheap and Name.com for a few other domains. My rule of thumb is domain registrars only get to manage my domains. Registrars love to upsell you on email and hosting but in my experience that's where all the bullshit starts. If you just buy a domain , you could go to place like GoDaddy and probably have a decent experience. EDIT: Just like I said, in the original thread they are talking about Ghand…

> My rule of thumb is domain registrars only get to manage my domains. Registrars love to upsell you on email and hosting but in my experience that's where all the bullshit starts.

That’s the Unix philosophy applied to service providers.

The same logic applies to why you should have a separate cable modem and WiFi router.

> If you just buy a domain, you could go to place like GoDaddy and probably have a decent experience.

No GoDaddy sucks even as just a registrar because even configuring NS records to host your DNS elsewhere is a terrible UX.

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

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Post by vladvasiliu »

microtonal wrote: post #21
wlesieutre wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good find. I've never heard of "Total Webhosting Solutions," anybody had experience with them? It's a bummer if Gandi goes downhill. I've never used them personally but I heard a lot of recommendations that they were a good registrar.

They were awesome. I have been with them over 15 years. But I fear it's time to move on. Still looking for an EU registrar that has modern 2FA (FIDO2) and is large enough to not be a target for takeover anytime soon.

Is OVH large enough?

They've supported FIDO for a while IIRC.

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

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Post by bhartzer »

It 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.

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