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

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

Pair. More or less forever. Nothing particularly special, but never so busted there’s been a reason to bother changing.

Also pair for ~20 years. Not one single service issue in this time. Very quick response from queries raised, technical or otherwise.

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

#93
post #17

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

> What registrars has HN been using lately? ycombinator.com itself is on 81 "Gandi SAS", although they use AWS DNS, so chances are it's through Route53 (since AWS isn't an ICANN registrar, they have other registrars actually handle the registry ops)

Sorry but AWS is an ICANN registrar see https://www.iana.org/assignments/registrar-ids/registrar-ids... ID 468.

Also note that Gandi also handle registry ops for AWS see https://aws.amazon.com/route53/domain-registration-agreement...

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

#94
Is migrating domains from Gandi to somewhere else easy/possible? I've had the same domain for years, I used to pay like $20 for five years, but then I forgot to renew, and because I let it expire for a few days, now they are charging me $100/year! Sour taste in my mouth about them even before this...

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

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post #17

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

I’ve been using https://hover.com (domains only) for over a decade and have had zero issues. They never bother me and only email for things I’d want to be notified (e.g. domain expiring).

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

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post #17

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

Route53 is Gandi under the covers

This is like saying my car is Venezuelan because it can accept gas from a Valero gas station.

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

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For those curious about what's going on (the post was removed) they merged with TWS: https://your.online/press-release/

Where the hell is the date on this press release... > "Gandi SAS (“Gandi”) and Total Webhosting Solutions B.V. (“TWS”), today announced" when was "today"?

This reposting - https://news.knowledia.com/US/en/articles/gandi-and-tws-join... indicates it was Feb 23, 2023

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

#100

This is why I only use service A for domains. And service B for emails.

I use service A for domains, service B for DNS and service C for emails.

I reached that by accident. Service B for DNS was just a more pleasant product to use than service A, and service A didn't offer certain features I needed for emails.

To bring it back on topic, this made it easy when I switched service A from Gandi to something else a year or two ago because a few things I was seeing from them "smelled funny." I don't remember the details, just that I wanted to switch.

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