Ditto. Moved 11 domains from Gandi to Porkbun today. But... for the lot of them, Porkbun was only $9 more than Cloudflare, which charges straight wholesale prices and takes no profit.

I'm glad Porkbun isn't gouging, but less than $1/domain/year markup still feels a bit thin and leaves me worried that I'll be doing this dance again in a few years.

Domains are the keys to the internet atm, it would be nice to see someone take it seriously.

Edit: I guess I'll try realtimeregister, since I haven't seen anything negative and they support U2F per Yubikey's catalog.

Edit2: Cool, cool, when you sign up they assign you a non-random password which anyone can use to log in and view your personal information.

Edit3: Others with u2f support that aren't MAMAA: Cloudflare (close), OVH, DNSimple (accounts are $60/year)

Porkbun do .uk domains now? TIL!

I moved some domains from Gandi to Porkbun before as part of a plan to ditch Gandi and when I asked (almost 3 years ago to the day), they didn't support .uk.

I did not know that. But how do you do it? And where to find a list of reputable registrars (which seems the rarest of species)?

My company has domains registered with Versio (and PCExtreme and Neostrada), but the control panel was showing multiple domains wrongly flagged as 'processing', and actually getting through to customer service takes the better part of day by now. I'm not looking forward to our domains getting migrated due to these mergers.

Start looking for alternative registrars if your domains are hosted by Versio, Neostrada, or PCExtreme! The competent staff of PCExtreme and Neostrada seem to have evaporated in these mergers.

> "Gandi SAS (“Gandi”) and Total Webhosting Solutions B.V. (“TWS”), today announced"

when was "today"?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

http://www.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.3-EN.p... (note that new versions seem to not have the clauses anymore..)

I wonder if that history has something to do with that...

(btw, it was Estelle Halliday, not Laetitia Halliday. But your uchrony is perfectly right)

(for those also out of the loop: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altern )

Valentin Lacambre hosted a website where you could post stuff

Estelle Halliday was revenge-porned by someone who posted on this website

French courts ruled that the host was liable (this was back in the day)

Valentin settled and shut down his site and started Gandi

Using bundled services from your domain registrar is especially problematic though, because when you switch registrars, you usually lose those bundled services, even though you already paid for them. Often, there's similar services available at the new registrar, but there's a cost to switch, and it's much more difficult to switch because the service provisioning is often tied to the domain process; service at registrar B won't be online until the domain is moved, and service at registrar A may be turned off immediately after the domain is moved, so you have no way to make an orderly transition.

I'm not sure that gandi's email fits that purpose, but specifically for email it can be a bit more tricky to roll your own than things like HTTPS, so having a hosted solution to handle that can help.

This avoided my ISP's block on outbound TCP port 25, and it also gave me a reputable sending IP address economically.

Probably not worth paying the asking price for this usage though.

In a functioning society you can’t sell someone a year worth of prepaid car washes and then decide they need to start paying you again 3 months into your contract.

Will be interesting to see if this touches the courts and, if so, how it plays out.

Choices of convenience will always be waiting in the future.

Choosing a path that is not the most convenient (just slightly less) can go a long way.

Company A never buys company B to let it do its thing.

If you want to be dishonest but not explicitly lie, there are almost always ways to do it. For example, "I believe access to healthcare is a human right" to a normal person sounds like the person is saying that healthcare is a human right, but "access" can mean anything at all and in reality they are saying nothing.

I would not be surprised at all to find that similar inconspicuous weasel words were used.

Perhaps the title should indicate that Gandi is rugpulling email accounts from people who have prepaid for domain registrations.

They haven't told me I'm losing my mailbox yet but I'm on the lookout.

The free mailbox was honestly one of the biggest reasons I chose Gandi, and I would not mind paying for it at all - preferably not under duress though!

Haven't heard any communication from Gandi yet but maybe I can update here if/when it happens.

I have a feeling Gandi is going to go down the tubes very fast.

https://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/montefiore-investment...

If that's the case I'm surprised it took 4 years for me to hear anything about it turning shitty

EDIT: Just like I said, in the original thread they are talking about Ghandi screwing customers on email inboxes. Follows my rule of "anything outside of domains and the bs starts".

They are just as cheap as the often-mentioned NameCheap, but a much better UI.

Dynadot also lets you "domain taste" that is get a refund in credit if you change your mind after buying a domain within I think 72 hours.

They also are one of the largest domain registrars.

Fast and cheap.

https://your.online/press-release/

The story on Mastodon is that they are axing free mail boxes that you'd get with every domain registered at Gandi, even if you had paid several years up front.

EDIT: It works briefly every 5 or 10 minutes, until it gets rate limited again.

Mirror: https://archive.is/w3yZy

Gandi obviously has issues, but is the thing about email real? Are there _any_ sources that can confirm it?

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)

It costs me about $40/year for domain (.org), dns, backup MX/mail spool, and a couple of other bits and pieces. It's been well worth it for the piece of mind.

They are just as cheap as the often-mentioned NameCheap, but a much better UI.

Dynadot also lets you "domain taste" that is get a refund in credit if you change your mind after buying a domain within I think 72 hours.

They also are one of the largest domain registrars.

purl-dot-org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_uniform_resource_lo...

or

.onion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion

e.g. http://p53lf57qovyuvwsc6xnrppyply3vtqm7l6pcobkmyqsiofyeznfu5... will be up even if the propublica.org domain is broken / disabled.

When you type a .onion address into your Tor browser, unlike with a regular domain, you are not looking up an IP address on a DNS server. Instead, you are asking a Hidden Service directory, which anybody can volunteer to run.

Would be really upset if they start charging for the two included mailboxes.

This is about them changing the pricing of their service. The part about doing it to customers who have paid in advance may be fraud, but it's still miles better then google randomly locking you out of your account without recourse. You don't have to use Gandi for your email (why would you even except for it being "free" which you now have learned it is not) and you can transfer your domain to another registrar.

The one time many years ago I had to call support for a question a human being answered in 2 rings.

Tucows (which owns Hover) has been around for 30 years. It's likely they'll be around for a long while still.

First you need an un-tainted ip-address/network. Then you need to get it all right with spf, dkim, dmarc, dane etc. One mistake or misconfiguration and emails from your server will at best end up in the junk folder.

Not to mention the server maintenance.

Even if you think you got it all done, you will not be welcome at all recipients (I'm looking at you Microsoft).

It's quite a pain, but I still keep at it because I have the interest and time.

It sucks how quickly these things can change.

It sounds like your domain name entered the redemption period. The high fee to restore a domain in the redemption period is mandated by the registry, not the registrar. So Gandi is not price gouging; they are required to collect that fee for restoring the domain.

Once you renew the domain, there is an immediate 60-day (?) period when you cannot transfer the domain elsewhere. So you’d have to wait for that duration and then transfer. You won’t lose out on the expiration date though.

When you transfer the domain to another registrar, you’d have to pay a one year renewal fee, which will extend the ownership of your domain by one more year than what it was before.

Contrary to the other reply, I do NOT recommend calling and doing it over the phone, as in my opinion that will just be slower and prone to accidents by adding a human into an otherwise automated process.

The process is free as in gandi won’t charge you to migrate but newer registar might , and also if you DNS or other services the new service provider will likely charge for those.

[1] for .come .net .org and many other popular ones it is, however for some of newer Top level domains (TLD) they may have only one domain registrar and you cannot move. .dev is owned and operated by google alone.

Gandi afaik does not have exclusive access to any significant TLD so it shouldn’t be a problem

> "What hasn’t changed over the last 20 years is our commitment to serving you, and we will continue doing that every day. In order to serve you in the best way in the future, we are announcing changes to our pricing policy effective April 6th 2023. [...] To ensure we can maintain the highest standards in the future we will stop free mailboxes beyond the first year, and price it at £2.99 per month for standard mailboxes and £5.99 per month for premium mailboxes and we will expand the e-mail offering with [...] Better anti-spam and anti-virus protection"

(Which I'm sure has nothing to do with the uptick in spam I've been receiving the past month or so).