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

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Post by chillfox »

InGoodFaith wrote: post #318
chillfox wrote: post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 on the issues with NameCheap. 1. They routinely fail to auto renew domains despite correct billing details and auto renew being on (I lost some domains to this). 2. They support premium domains, so you can be struck by lightning and randomly have the price of your domains dramatically jacked up (had to drop a domain due to this). 3. The name (NameCheap) no longer checks out, they are not cheap anymore. They stoppe…

> 2. They support premium domains, so you can be struck by lightning and randomly have the price of your domains dramatically jacked up (had to drop a domain due to this). Do you have an example of this as it is against ICANN's rules IIRC. The only instances I have seen about this were the posts here on HN when someone didn't read the registration price being at a discount compared to the renewal price thereafter. If…

I did not take screenshots at the time so I can not prove it.

But I remember that I specifically spent effort/time to pick a name that was not marked as premium and double/triple checked before registering. Then about 3 months after I had registered it, it all of a sudden showed as premium in my account.

From my perspective it doesn't really matter much if they made it premium after I had registered it or if it was always premium and they hid that fact and gave me an invisible discount. The end result is the same.

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Post by kerneis »

jacquesm wrote: post #262
sam_lowry_ wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True, it was Estelle. Thanks.

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

Both exist.

Trivia time: Laeticia (née Laetitia) was married to Johnny, the famous French rock singer; Estelle was married to David, son of Johnny. Note that Johnny is dead now, Laeticia has been remaried twice but kept Johnny's last name, Estelle is divorced, and David is not the son of Laeticia as Johnny got married several times (David's mother is the French actress Sylvie Vartan).

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Post by Penguinx628 »

Jiocus wrote: post #202
bambax wrote: post #193

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> 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 a long time customer, I would recommend Namecheap. I was trying out Gandi since a couple months. On the bright side, they have a lot of additional international TLDs, but that's about it. Gandi has been noticeably more expensive when comparing equivalent domains.

Strong disagree. Migrated off namecheap after their support left a bad taste in my mouth. Also they had a data breach and did NOT notify me as a customer of theirs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/116j7iq/fyi_namech...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/namecheaps-em...

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Post by aww_dang »

worksonmine wrote: post #215

Crap, 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?

Name.com is more expensive, but I've never been surprised. Normal ticketing if you do have an issue. No inane chat support, less bloated site and they've never attempted stunt billing.

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Post by OoooooooO »

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 use INWX for some years for 2 domains and can't complain about anything.

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Post by sam_lowry_ »

renewiltord wrote: post #295
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.

Ah, tldr: Valentin Lacambre hosted a website where you could post stuff Estelle Halliday was revenge-porned by someone who posted on this website French courts ruled that the host was liable (this was back in the day) Valentin settled and shut down his site and started Gandi

Not just any website. Altern.org was pretty much the Gmail of the day for French speakers. Web hosting offer was also free and minimal.

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Post by benhurmarcel »

btown wrote: post #297
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…

Gandi was always a premium provider at premium prices. But I was pitched them, years ago, by someone who knew someone at the company that they were worth the extra price... because there would be no BS. No hidden pricing, no sniping of domains based on searching for them, all that. Everything in this thread, frankly, is a breach of that trust.

I fully agree, I paid more for years because they provided email hosting, and more importantly they were seen as trusted all around.

Now with this move I have no reason left to pay extra, I'll renew somewhere else.

I'm a bit upset that I learn about this on HN too, I wonder when I'll get an email. They didn't even update their own website yet.

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Post by ldoughty »

Penguinx628 wrote: post #323
Jiocus wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a long time customer, I would recommend Namecheap. I was trying out Gandi since a couple months. On the bright side, they have a lot of additional international TLDs, but that's about it. Gandi has been noticeably more expensive when comparing equivalent domains.

Strong disagree. Migrated off namecheap after their support left a bad taste in my mouth. Also they had a data breach and did NOT notify me as a customer of theirs. https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/116j7iq/fyi_namech... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/namecheaps-em...

That article seems to indicate that no customer data was involved... looks like their send-only email key was compromised.

Maybe I'm not paranoid enough, but I think there would be too much noise if every company blasted out emails to all customers any time there was ANY security failure, including failures that do not expose customer data... Sure, they should follow up on your who got phishing emails, but I don't see a need to email every customer.

I've had no issues with NameCheap, but I just register domains, no other fancy services.

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Post by nubinetwork »

justinclift wrote: post #289
nubinetwork wrote: post #84

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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 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34786465 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34788210 <-- mine

Sorry for your luck, but based on your posts and your twitter, you already had other security issues. That's not hovers fault.

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Post by VoxPelli »

corford wrote: post #264
zvr wrote: post #256

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> 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).

Because of GDPR, it’s so much simpler so have a host within the EU than elsewhere and especially simpler than having one in the US
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