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

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Post by kbelder »

ploum wrote: post #340
kerneis wrote: post #322

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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).

To summarize : Laeticia is basically the step-mother of Estelle. But she’s 9 years younger.

Well, that's just France for you.

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

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Post by nubinetwork »

justinclift wrote: post #335
nubinetwork wrote: post #329

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

Sure mate. Care to explain? (Btw, I don't have a Twitter, so good luck with that. :)) Let me guess, you work for Hover or used to? Or maybe you just needed more coffee/sleep/something before replying? ;)

Sorry I misread the thread, I thought you were densone

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

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Post by justinclift »

nubinetwork wrote: post #342
justinclift wrote: post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure mate. Care to explain? (Btw, I don't have a Twitter, so good luck with that. :)) Let me guess, you work for Hover or used to? Or maybe you just needed more coffee/sleep/something before replying? ;)

Sorry I misread the thread, I thought you were densone

No worries. ;)

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

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Post by CyberShadow »

cortic wrote: post #212
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 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.

I use NameSilo but am 50/50 on it. Their control panel does not send a "Content-Type" header, which is effectively mandatory, and the support team flat out could not understand what I was talking to them when I was trying to point it out to them. It "worked" in Chrome and Firefox without add-ons and that's as far as their concern ended.

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

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Post by rendaw »

Thoreandan wrote: post #265

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. :-(

I didn't get an email, there's no news, and AFAICT this story hasn't been picked up by any other news outlets at all (nothing on Google News at least). There are a couple individual anecdotes, and off topic discussions about domain prices.

Gandi obviously has issues, but is the thing about email real? Are there _any_ sources that can confirm it?

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

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Post by Porkbun »

mcsniff wrote: post #219
hrunt wrote: post #197

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Why Porkbun? What makes a good domain registrar these days (almost everyone is or has been acquired by someone doing something questionable)?

I've seen the name around recently on HN and people never seem to have much to say other than they use it and it's well priced -- which means to me it's "boring" and that's exactly what I'm looking for. A boring company who does 1 thing and does it so well that people dont say good or bad, it's so boring they barely notice it because it gets out the way.

Us? Boring!? [oinks internally]
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