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Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by lockhouse »

aendruk wrote: post #3

No 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.

If a company goes out of their way to tell you how ethical they are, they probably aren't.

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Post by branon »

chmod775 wrote: post #34
aendruk wrote: post #3

No 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.

> No forewarning This is announcing the shutdown of their previous offering 5 months in advance. I'd call that a forewarning.

Yes - when the first wave of emails hit EU users several months ago, I complained on HN that I'd be fine with paying for GandiMail as long as I had 6 months notice or whatever.

The email I got today was pretty clear and no-BS, it says flat out that pricing changes are effective in 30 days for "all our existing services and the new Mailbox service" - price hikes aren't exactly fun, but my domain is registered out for a few years already and I'm using their email service for free... so is 30-day notice of a pricing increase _truly_ only 30 days notice? Not really, not for a vendor whom I only pay annually in advance.

Notably the existing, free GandiMail service stays up until November which is the part I was worried about. So this seems fine to me, I am happy to become a paying customer for email and they've made this easy by giving me plenty of time to onboard. Domain registry fees are already cheap, I don't really care about paying a little more to keep my domain. For my TLD it looks like prices are going up the equivalent of 60 cents per month.

I have been freeloading on GandiMail for several years and it's been great. I am happy to pay $4/mo for a standard inbox (at least while I shop around) especially if they are upgrading their product. Currently GandiMail's MFA scheme is pretty crappy/broken so I am excited to see what I'll be able to get in return for my money after they complete their changes.

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Post by aeyes »

theshrike79 wrote: post #27
roomey wrote: post #7

Any reccomended alternatives? I've used them because they seemed the most reputable in the murky world of domain name providers.

I'm boring and I just moved my crap from Gandi to Route 53 ages ago. It's not the cheapest, but the pricing is stable and predictable, the tools are good and I can automate swapping subdomains if an IP changes trivially.

Just be aware that you can receive massive bills if you use Route 53 as DNS because you pay per query and there is no way to block bad requests. I have seen >1000$/month on a single domain.

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Post by bombcar »

ryanjshaw wrote: post #39
whizzter wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Existing customers will retain the free service for renewals done for the next month until they shut it down, and even then the cost of the new email service is a fraction of what you pay for Microsofts or Google custom domain emails. I have a mailbox there for my domain so I hope they can introduce some easy way to just pre-pay for a longer period.

Their premium email service will be $5.99/mo going forward. The equivalent Exchange Online plan is $4.80/mo in year 1 (or $4 with 12mo commitment), then additional $12/yr for the custom domain i.e. $5.80/mo in year 2 - that's cheaper than Gandi?

When I was preparing to flee free google apps for domains during the recent kerfuffle, the cheapest overall really was Exchange Online (it's a basic email-only option). For a single user and single domain, it's just $56 a year.

Next best was proton mail (seems it's a bit cheaper now, $48/yr)

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Post by hfkwer »

theshrike79 wrote: post #27
roomey wrote: post #7

Any reccomended alternatives? I've used them because they seemed the most reputable in the murky world of domain name providers.

I'm boring and I just moved my crap from Gandi to Route 53 ages ago. It's not the cheapest, but the pricing is stable and predictable, the tools are good and I can automate swapping subdomains if an IP changes trivially.

Are you aware that Route 53 uses Gandi under the hood...?! https://aws.amazon.com/route53/domain-registration-agreement...

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by f137 »

breput wrote: post #2

The 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…

Do you happen to know what are Grilles / Grids in the price list?
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