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I use www.inwx.de for years. Nothing to complain.
Another happy INWX user for 15+ years.
And another one, for 18 years.
Gandi.net – Pricing Update
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Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update
#42No forewarning, no post on the website, no justification, and the nasty news buried in the middle of unrelated text. It appears designed to deceive. “No bullshit” is no more. https://www.gandi.net/en/no-bullshit That promise is what justified their slightly higher prices. With it broken, I have no reason not to transfer to a less expensive registrar. So that I’ve now done, and Gandi can try to win me back next year.
To be fair, they announced this a long time ago, and I got an email with this exact email content.
Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update
#43I got an email from Gandi earlier today and it was talking about their commitment to providing best tools and blah blah blah. I didn’t bother to read the thing.
But after seeing this headline on HN, I realised that actually that email was probably about a pricing update. Went back to my inbox and sure enough, the subject of the email says pricing update.
Anyway, it seems to be mainly about DNS and email services, etc, none of which I use.
I only use Gandi as registrar for domain names. And then for the DNS I use Cloudflare. For email I use iCloud.
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#44The text in the link was sent to Gandi users via email today, although they purposefully buried the significant domain registration price increases with the GandiMail bs text. The actual price increases are listed here[0]. For example, currently a .com domain can be renewed for $17.75/year (tax inclusive - I personally renewed a .com domain for the maximum of 4 years tonight). After the increase this will be $23.99/y…
They got me, I thought the price hikes were specifically for things I didn't care about, because of all of the gandimail stuff. Without HN I wouldn't have even noticed. Looking at my last invoice, I paid ~£26/year for a .info domain. If I'm reading this right, it's now ~£36/yr. That's a ~40% increase. Glad I renewed for nine years last year.
> Glad I renewed for nine years last year.
Given the speed with which Gandi is circling down the drain I won't be surprised if they annul that renewal at some point later on.
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#45To give an idea of the prices increase, I listed previous and future prices for some TLDs.
These are renewal prices in euro for A rate.
Current prices: https://www.gandi.net/pdf/en/Gandi_Domain_Prices_EUR_A_NOVAT... (second column)
Futur prices: https://www.gandi.net/static/documents/2023-july-eur-renew-p...
- .cloud : 21.13 -> 29.99
- .com : 15.51 -> 19.99
- .dev : 14.01 -> 19.99
- .es : 12.47 -> 19.99
- .eu : 13.90 -> 19.99
- .gr : 12.47 -> 19.99
- .info : 26.75 -> 34.99
- .io : 49.00 -> 59.99
- .net : 18.99 -> 24.99
- .nl : 14.04 -> 19.99
- .org : 16.22 -> 19.99
- .page : 14.13 -> 19.99
- .quebec : 33.30 -> 39.99
- .social : 40.06 -> 49.99
- .us : 13.30 -> 19.99Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update
#46At this point it would be news that a company /doesn’t/ hike their prices 10-30% every 6-12 months
Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update
#47I got an email from Gandi earlier today and it was talking about their commitment to providing best tools and blah blah blah. I didn’t bother to read the thing. But after seeing this headline on HN, I realised that actually that email was probably about a pricing update. Went back to my inbox and sure enough, the subject of the email says pricing update. Anyway, it seems to be mainly about DNS and email services, etc…
domain prices increase too. some doubled. check your domains
Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update
#48What's a good alternative registrar based in the EU? What an unethical move, they rescind already paid contracts/accounts and the price hike is insane. The went from "no BS" to full of it. I intend to move all my domains. I also paid for the "premium" email service. But it went from 25€ per year to 86€ ! Domains are also getting a price hike and web hosting too. Time to move
Was about to recommend Freethought [1] until I remembered we aren't in the EU any more.
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#49I have a single domain with 2 emails on it. What's the cheapest migration option for mail? I want to use a company with human tech support in case something goes wrong one day. No tech giants.
I've been using PurelyMail[1] (it's been on hacker news a couple of times already) for about a year now and haven't had any issues with it. It uses consumption-based pricing so for my use (with two domains set up) it comes out to about $0.5/month. I think it's a small team (maybe just one person?) that maintains it. [1]: https://purelymail.com/
I've been a satisfied Fastmail customer for a couple of years but this looks mighty enticing to switch over. $10 a year OR pay as you go.
Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update
#50No forewarning, no post on the website, no justification, and the nasty news buried in the middle of unrelated text. It appears designed to deceive. “No bullshit” is no more. https://www.gandi.net/en/no-bullshit That promise is what justified their slightly higher prices. With it broken, I have no reason not to transfer to a less expensive registrar. So that I’ve now done, and Gandi can try to win me back next year.
Yes forewarning, they were bought out and closed free email and said email would cost $ripoff/month at least three months ago: