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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
#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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)?
As an ex-customer, I'd avoid namecheap. They are expensive and have given me no end of trouble. I currently use porkbun and namesilo with very few issues so far (about 3 years). You will need to unlock your domain and get an authorization code (EPP Key) from Gandi and then go to your new registrar and select Transfer Domain . Its fairly straight forward.
Could you share what troubles you had with namecheap, in vague terms at least if you don't want to be specific?
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#303Wow Gandi was one of th4 old school internet “good guys”. Are there any similar quality registrars left?
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#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
doesn't OVH require ID verification after you pay? and then run off with your money if they don't get it at least, that is my experience
Sounds like a wonderful reason for a chargeback.
I tried to chargeback but the card company was like "nah chargebacks are inconvenient, just have some credit". Was pleasantly surprised.
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
doesn't OVH require ID verification after you pay? and then run off with your money if they don't get it at least, that is my experience
I had to identify by ID iirc because I wanted a .eu domain which is restricted to EU citizens. But I had to give the ID upfront.
I wanted to purchase a VPS and they took my money before asking for ID. I refused to give them an ID that I didn't have (because I don't have one) and they kept my money and refused to provide service.
So at least don't get a VPS unless you're ready to give ID, heh.
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an ex-customer, I'd avoid namecheap. They are expensive and have given me no end of trouble. I currently use porkbun and namesilo with very few issues so far (about 3 years). You will need to unlock your domain and get an authorization code (EPP Key) from Gandi and then go to your new registrar and select Transfer Domain . Its fairly straight forward.
You might need to elaborate on what problems you experienced with Namecheap before promoting two relatively unknown registrars. Although, my only experience with Namecheap was for SSL certs back in the day. What happened that drove you away?
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Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#307One of the comments on the mastodon site references bookmyname.com as an alternative with free email boxes (1G). They’re site looks pleasingly last millennium and also says powered by FreeBSD (also pleasing!)
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#308Has anyone felt that GoDaddy is doing the same thing? They just switched to Microsoft for domain hosting and email, and it's a mess, and it seems as if all of the free mailboxes are gone including, free forwarding.
Yes, they dumped their basic free email for a 30 day trial of Office365 and an offer to pay monthly for Office365 through them. That's why I moved from GoDaddy to Gandi, so that's annoying.
Thanks for confirmation.
I've been fighting the settings for a few days, in multiple domains. It's not clear. Does look like all free emails are revoked.
Too bad.
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#309Crap, I was about to move there because the namecheap CEO is too impulsive and still waiting for the explanation of their "third party getting hacked" a few weeks ago. Where do I go now?
Hover has been about as no nonsense as it can get. Not the cheapest, but I'd rather pay a few extra dollars a year to not have to deal with this in the future. I swear I'm the only person I know not constantly switching domain registrars, because I don't want to waste time sweating over maybe tens of dollars a year for something so core to my operations. The one time many years ago I had to call support for a questio…
That's good to hear.
I've been using GoDaddy for years, with same high quality tech help, and free emails, until now. Might check hover.
Re: Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
Suggestions for service B? Every single service I can find always seems such a pain to go in and add a subdomain and change something.
Honestly I think it depends where you are deploying to. I was previously using Netlify DNS for instance since most of my domains had static websites hosted on Netlify, this meant that they could manage quite a lot of records for me, I was also a fan of having CNAME-flattening which isn't available at domains.google (for reference I'm using the .dev TLD which is owned by the Google Registrar), but I've recently switch…
Almost none of the most popular/important zones on the Internet aren't signed, so there is little impetus for providers to support DNSSEC. IPv6 is a more annoying lapse.