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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 Raed667 »

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.

I like CF and I like the fact that I can probably tweet at the CEO and get a response for my issues.

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

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Post by recuter »

mohamedattahri wrote: post #23
swayvil wrote: post #15

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

I use cloudflare, and their prices are unbeatable.

"Cloudflare Registrar is only available for customers that use Cloudflare as their authoritative DNS provider (also known as a full setup)."

Wow. Just wow. What happens if I register a domain via Cloudflare but decide later I don't want to use their DNS offerings?

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

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Post by bombcar »

recuter wrote: post #42
mohamedattahri wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use cloudflare, and their prices are unbeatable.

"Cloudflare Registrar is only available for customers that use Cloudflare as their authoritative DNS provider (also known as a full setup)." Wow. Just wow. What happens if I register a domain via Cloudflare but decide later I don't want to use their DNS offerings?

You transfer it, hoping that they don't refuse and decide they own you forever.

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

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Post by throwaway81523 »

Gandi email has been useless from the start. They say right in the contract that they don't back up their email servers. Isn't the host handling chores like backup part of the point of a hosted product? Of course you can and should distrust the host's backups and have your own in addition, but that's way different than the host not doing them in the first place.

Maybe they have fixed that (I don't see it on their site any more) but I have a screen shot of the old contract provision and I complained to them about it in 2017, and they ignored the complaint.

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

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Post by necessary »

bob1029 wrote: post #17

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

Recently went with Porkbun. Their interface is simple and functional, and they have good support for most 2FA interfaces (including passkeys).

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

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Post by jgrahamc »

recuter wrote: post #42
mohamedattahri wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use cloudflare, and their prices are unbeatable.

"Cloudflare Registrar is only available for customers that use Cloudflare as their authoritative DNS provider (also known as a full setup)." Wow. Just wow. What happens if I register a domain via Cloudflare but decide later I don't want to use their DNS offerings?

You can transfer the domain to some other registrar.
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