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Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by Macha »

huhtenberg wrote: post #44
SCdF wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Aren't domain registrations ultimately kept by the registry (e.g. Verisign for .com) not the registrar. If you transfer your domain, you don't forfeit far out expiry dates?

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Post by shiftpgdn »

elaus wrote: post #21
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.

That also rubbed me the wrong way. So much marketing text and then a single paragraph about service terminations and price changes.

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Post by huggingmouth »

_cenw wrote: post #53
codethief wrote: post #41

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And another one, for 18 years.

They once gave my data to law enforcement without notifying me, with no obligations not to notify me. It wasn't even an investigation into me, but a shotgun "everyone who talked about this gets asked to testify" case, specifically into a Witcher 3 Google Drive leak. That aside, they're fine.

That's enough for me to avoid this registrar for life.

When registrars requires users to divulge their private information, they become bound to fight tooth and nail to protect it for as long as they retain it.

Screw INWX for betraying their customers. Screw them.

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Post by api »

shiftpgdn wrote: post #74
elaus wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That also rubbed me the wrong way. So much marketing text and then a single paragraph about service terminations and price changes.

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… and at the same time have you seen what most modern startups spend on cloud?

Price tolerance in this industry is grossly out of whack vs what things actually cost. Certain businesses are permitted to print money and nobody bats an eye (cloud, hosted data analytics, marketing, hipster web shit) while other things are expected to be free or absurdly cheap and people freak out otherwise.

Everyone knows pricing and cost expectations are never rational but they’re particularly ridiculous in software and SaaS.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by velosol »

gettodachoppa wrote: post #28

I 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 pretty happy with mailbox.org, German based and has support for various keys to use with custom domains (SPF/DKIM) including the ability to have the same custom domain used across multiple accounts (nice for extended family domains and the like, safe as you still need to make the DNS changes on that provider).

Pricing is reasonable and the limited support interaction I've had has been good.

The webmail seems to be OX [1].

[1]: https://www.open-xchange.com/

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Post by zhte415 »

alexghr wrote: post #33
gettodachoppa wrote: post #28

I 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/

Another vote for Purelymail. Pricing is great. Easy to setup. It just works. Plus they have a mail migration tool.

Re: Gandi.net – Pricing Update

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Post by quercusa »

branon wrote: post #65
chmod775 wrote: post #34

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> 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…

Since I just use it for forwarding aliases, is there any reason to get the more expensive mail plan? The Sieve support looks pretty nice.
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